Where my books are, and where they’re not
I just had a look over my Smashwords channel manager and realised how many places my books were available. Whilst the Diesel and Sony ebook stores have vanished into the digital ether, they have...
Category: Self-Publishing
A petition for the readers
You may or may not be aware that there is currently a business dispute going on between Amazon and the French-backed publishing giant Hachette regarding ebook pricing. I’m not going to go over the...
Killing Gods Release Date
ANNOUNCEMENT! I can now tell you that Killing Gods, the sequel to Powerless, will be released on all channels on Tuesday 22nd July. It will be available as a pre-order on Smashwords (but not...
KDP Select or not?
I’ve been looking at my sales figures and am seriously considering enrolling in KDP select. The only thing that has been putting me off to date is the exclusivity requirement, which means I’d have...
My kingdom for a review!
So Powerless is back up to full price; that’s £1.99 on the UK site and $3.99 on the US site. It’s been on sale (£0.87/$0.99) for a couple of months and I was selling...
Bittorrent Bundle data – first 30 days
So, I created a Bittorrent Bundle featuring Powerless, Killing Gods preview edition and Making Gods short story collection. It went live on 5th Feb and although I’m a bit over a month from launch...
Hugh Howey Author Earnings Report
If you are even slightly into self-publishing ebooks you have probably heard about the furore author Hugh Howey has stirred up with his Author Earning Report based on Amazon sales ranking data. I’m not...
I’m on AuthorsDB
I listed myself on the website AuthorsDB.com a couple of days ago and my author and book listings have just gone live. When I was researching websites for promoting myself as a writer, I...
Putting myself out there
I just realised the other day I’m not registered with HMRC for tax. Oh yeah, sexy tax talk coming up, you know you love it! 😉 But quite apart from possibly missing the sexy...
Self-publishing thoughts 2013
I thought it may be useful and illuminating if I released sales figures for my books (predominantly Powerless) for 2013. There are already some authors who do this, notably J.A. Konrath who has been...
