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Marketing Tasks
01 Jan 2025I’ve been reading a lot of articles about what a self-published author (and I guess any author really) needs to have, or do to market, a novel. The first th...
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Kindle Publishing
15 Dec 2024Started creating the accounts need to publish Stigma. I have created the Kindle account, and everything looks correctly set up. Just need to upload the eboo...
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Book Cover - Finished
10 Dec 2024Victoria got back to me today with the final designs for the book cover. I have to say that I am exceptionally chuffed with what she has created. Please che...
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Book cover chosen
02 Dec 2024Out of the two designs for the cover at I was looking at, I have gone for this one. My original brief to Vicki was that I wanted something simple, minimalist...
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Potential cover designs - Market Research
30 Nov 2024My rough market research has shown that people like number 5, followed by number 3. For me, with number 5, the letters don’t feel part of the design. I’ve a...
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Potential cover designs
28 Nov 2024So, another step closer to having a finished book. Vicki has provided 6 potential cover designs for me to have a look over. At this time, my personal favour...
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Booked a Copy Editor
15 Nov 2024Found myself a CopyEditor on Reedsy. They can’t start the work until the end of January, but I’m in no rush.
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Looking for a Copyeditor
05 Nov 2024Just advertised on Reedsy that I need of a copyeditor to polish the hell out of the manuscript. With the cover design in progress, and setting this in motio...
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Beta Reader - Report
25 Oct 2024Received the beta reader report back from Robert. It was a very glowing report. He enjoyed reading Stigma. To use his words I couldn’t put it down! Wh...
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Cover artist has been hired,
23 Oct 2024I reached out to four graphics artists on Reedsy, providing them a brief of what I needed. They all came back with similar quotes in terms of money, and wha...
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