Using Amazon Attribution to Manage the Success of Facebook Ads
One of the marketing problems I’ve always had as an author is knowing if my Facebooks Ads (or other similar platforms) actually produced a sale. …
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Caroline Tangent Added as Kindle Monthly Deal
The Other Times Of Caroline Tangent has been selected by Amazon as one of their UK 99p Kindle Monthly Deals for all of May. This …
How Not to Behave if You Win a Book Award
Last week, I won the adult fiction category of the 2022 Selfies Book Awards*. I have just about stopped grinning gormlessly by now. But I …
My Experience of BookBub for Indie Authors
Last week, my novel went from selling a few copies a day to becoming an Amazon number 1 bestseller for Time Travel in the UK, …
My First Page Before It Was Edited
I was looking back today at my original manuscript of The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, before my editor, Lucy York got hold of it …
Researching 1970s New York (as a British Author)
Part of my novel is set in New York in the 1970s. I have been to Manhattan myself several times over the last twenty years, …
Using Nielsen Publishing Services as an Indie Author
Because I decided not to distribute my books exclusively with Amazon, I used Nielsen for two specific parts of my self-publishing process: Buying ISBN numbers …
Printing Paperbacks with Clays
For my forthcoming novel, The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, I decided I would produce paperback copies through a book printer rather than Amazon/POD. This …
Using Vellum Software for Typesetting
Because I am self-publishing The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, I needed to get it typeset for my ebook and paperback versions. I did investigate …
Write What You Want to Write – Not What You Think is Commercial
Before I completed my first novel which was published, I tried writing several other books (plus more that never got past chapter one…), including one …