The Summer Book Club is in its fifth week now. Since we launched two of the writers (or writing teams) have announced deals with publishers. Firstly, of course, there was Louise and me, and then this week J. Carson Black announced that she has done a deal with Amazon, who are going to publish The [...]
Sibel Hodge’s chick lit mystery is the next book to be featured in The Summer Book Club. About Sibel… Sibel Hodge is the author of romantic comedies and chick lit mysteries. In her spare time she’s Wonder Woman! Her first novel, Fourteen Days Later, was short-listed for the Harry Bowling Prize 2008 and received a [...]
J Carson Black is an indie phenomenon. Her latest novel, The Shop, broke into the Amazon.com Top 30 and she has sold over 100,000 ebooks in a few months despite doing hardly any promotion. Her books have fantastic covers and she has a great website. Finally, she writes brilliant books. I read The Shop a [...]
Anyone who has followed my breathless outpourings on this blog or on the various social networks and forums I frequent will know that the last month has been both exciting and surreal. To recap: Catch Your Death was No.1 on Amazon.co.uk for a month; Killing Cupid kept climbing up to No.2, helping us achieve the [...]
A couple of months ago, I received an email from an American writer called Cheryl Shireman, asking if she could appear on my blog. She was so polite, and so passionate about being an indie writer, that I said yes. Just after her blog post appeared Life Is But a Dream shot up the Amazon [...]
Back at the beginning of May, before all the craziness started, I had an idea that I have been working on behind the scenes ever since. I was on holiday, chilling out in sun-soaked Portugal, and while I tore through books on my Kindle my girlfriend was reading a real papery book that she’d picked [...]
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