G is for Genre

Is genre still useful in today’s book world? With the advent of self-publishing especially, the old categories are being blurred, and the genre lines are frequently being crossed. As we deviate more and more from the ‘norm’ of stories and genre, is...

F is for Facebook Ads

There are many different places you can advertise your book. Goodreads advertising space, Google ad words, Facebook and many small independent blogs and book sites. So why did I choose Facebook? OK, you got me. I had a free $50 voucher for Facebook advertising that I...

E is for Editors

Hiring an editor is one of those hot topics in self-publishing. Something no one should do without. It has even been said recently, on one popular blog, that if you can’t afford to hire an editor, then you shouldn’t be self-publishing. I agree that editors...

A is for Amazon Associates

Everywere I go looking for a way to link directly to my novel, all I find is information about the Amazon Associates program. I avoided signing up for quite a while, since I really didn’t see the point. But I think I might have found one. The Amazon Associates...

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...