For me, one of the hardest things about writing is finding the time to write. I work full-time and have a family, so me-time has to be squeezed in between work and family commitments. Although our kids have ‘technically’ left home (and I say ‘technically’ because we’ve got them both back home at the moment),… Continue reading Lock-down up-side

My down this week was that I found out that my manuscript for Golden City did not make the shortlist for the Tessa Duder category (YA) in the national Storylines competition. My up was that, for the first time ever, I technically made more in sales than I paid in advertising on Amazon. No, hang… Continue reading Ups and downs

Thank you, thank you, everyone who nominated my 2nd book Tyrelia for the Sir Julius Vogel (SJV) Award in the Best Youth Novel category. I have received confirmation that I have made it through the initial nomination round. However, I still need as many nominations as possible to go further in the competition. The more nominations… Continue reading Tyrelia has been nominated for SJV Award!

During January I signed up to a free Amazon Ad School run by indie author Bryan Cohen. It was excellent. I learned so much. For starters, I had only been running one type of ad. I was running 7 of them, but just one type. I was updating them weekly and adding new keywords, but… Continue reading Amazon Ad School

Last week, I commissioned a Content Edit of Golden City. This is a review of the story structure and content, not the details of grammar and word echoes etc (which is called a copy edit). I’ve received a 3-page report, but still waiting for the hard-copy marked-up manuscript. I’m really happy with the suggestions I’ve… Continue reading Golden City – content edit