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Facebook ad campaign
25 Feb 2025I guess the problem any debut author faces is how do you get your book known to potential readers so they can decide if they want to read it or not? There i...
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Release Date Planned - 17th March
19 Feb 2025I’ve announced on Social Media that Stigma will be available on the 17th of March. Is this a realistic date? I honestly don’t know, I’ve never done this befo...
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On the home straight
31 Jan 2025Last night I provided Stigma to Abbie, who will do the final edit to prepare for publishing. The plan is for her to have Stigma until the end of February to...
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Accounts Created
10 Jan 2025I’ve spent a lot of time trying to work out where to sell Stigma. The obvious place was KDP (Kindle Digital Publishing). Creating an account was a straightf...
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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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