Should You Only Write What You Know?

You may have heard the saying before, it’s advice often given to writers just starting out. Write what you know. Trouble is, I don’t know any writers who do! Unless you’re writing an autobiography, chances are you will have to write about something...

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...

Published!

It’s done! My book is live on the Amazon webpage! Check it out, download the free sample, and let me know what you think. I’m elated, and I’m also exhausted! I’m sure I’ll be more talkative tomorrow.

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...

The Challenge of Naming Spaceships

Reckless Rescue is so close to being ready to publish I can taste it! I’m aiming to have it out by Valentine’s Day! I’m just going through the last of my readers comments, and one suggestion was to come up with names for the two spaceships that are...