Last weekend, to my delight, The Magpies hit No.1 on Amazon.co.uk. It didn’t stay there long – some bloke called Dan Brown brought a book out the next day – but it was a great feeling, not least because it proved that the success of Catch Your Death, my first No.1, wasn’t a fluke. Not [...]
Nick Spalding is the UK’s most successful indie author of 2012, with incredible sales of his comedies. He’s just announced a traditional deal with Coronet Books and is an example of someone whose life has been transformed by self-publishing. Nick and I will be appearing on a panel together at Self-Publishing in the Digital Age, [...]
In the second part of my interview with Karl Vadaszffy, he unveils some of the things he did to help his indie book, The Missing, soar into the Amazon Top 10 and sell 35,000 copies. Read on for some useful tips. And thanks again to Karl for taking the time to answer my many questions. [...]
I’m delighted to welcome Karl Vadaszffy to IndieIQ , for my first interview in quite a while. This is Part 1 of a 2-part interview. In the second part, Karl will reveal some of the secrets of his success. Although Karl is not self-published – his books have been published by his agent – he [...]
Allan Guthrie has self-published a number of bestselling crime novels, including Bye Bye Baby (which has sold over 20,000 copies) and Killing Mum, another big seller. I’ve read Bye Bye Baby and loved it; it’s an original, realistic crime thriller that heads off in unexpected directions. His third Kindle novel, Kill Clock, is due very [...]
Steven Savile has been riding high in the Amazon.co.uk Top 20 for months with his thriller Silver. It’s sold in huge quantities and I was drawn to it because it’s a conspiracy thriller, rather like my own Catch Your Death, but in a different vein. Think Dan Brown on steroids. It starts with a young [...]
If you spend any time browsing Amazon or on the various Kindle Facebook groups and forums, you are almost certain to have come across Mel Comley. Mel, who writes police procedurals recently announced on Kindleboards that she has sold over 10,000 copies of her ‘Justice’ novels, Impeding Justice and Final Justice. These hard-hitting crime novels [...]
Here, without unnecessary preamble from me, is part two of my exclusive Mark Williams interview. Mark is half of the super-successful Saffina Desforges partnership. Here he describes the process of writing as a duo and what comes next for Saffina Desforges. (If you missed Part 1 you can read it here.) Can you describe the [...]
Mark Williams is currently sitting at No.3 in the Amazon.co.uk bestseller list. Go and take a look. What do you mean, you can’t see him? OK…for those not in the know, Mark is half of the Saffina Desforges writing partnership, authors of Sugar & Spice, which has taken the Kindle world by storm this year, [...]
Today’s interview is with thriller writer Jake Barton. Anyone who has been keeping an eye on the Kindle UK top 100 over the last few months can’t have failed to have seen Jake’s Burn Baby Burn which took up residence in the top ten until the Amazon Spring Sale temporarily knocked it down. Two other [...]
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