Muddy Colours on Amazon Covers

As I posted on Facebook, I created an entry in my bookshelf for Reckless Recon a couple of days ago. I like to do this a week or two before the book is ready to publish, just to keep my motivation up, to start filling in all the fields (keywords and categories can...

Lots of Updates!

Wow, it’s been a busy week! Releasing Reckless Rebellion, and running a free promo on Reckless Rescue in the same three days meant I was REALLY busy. But it also worked really well. I had a lot of downloads of Reckless Rescue over the three days, and the sales...

How I Formatted my Kindle Ebook using Dreamweaver

Update – August 2016: I just wanted to note that I now format all my ebooks using Sigil. It’s a free ebook formatter, that has all the advantages of Dreamweaver (Clean code, directly edit html etc), but also will compile an NCX table of contents, and other...

Ebook design

This blog post isn’t about how to format your ebook (I’ll be writing one of those next week, now I’ve actually worked it out!), it’s about design. An ebook, like a print book, has several design elements besides the cover and the actual text,...

Table of Contents in Novels – Do We Need Them?

** Update: After a recent issue with scams on Amazon, a few people have had emails from Amazon because of their table of contents at the back of their novels. Amazon has publically said it is acceptable, but their style guild recommends putting them in the front...