Death of a distributor.

Unfortunately that headline is not a title of an upcoming book in my Inspector Stone Mysteries series, it's something that happened to me at the beginning of the week. Since the first half of the year I have been published through the distribution platform Pronoun, which is owned by MacMillan. I've enjoyed my time with...

Problems – fixed

As some of you may be aware, I have recently had problems with my books on Amazon, this would be annoying at the best of times, but immediately following the release of a new book, which has just hit 6 top 100 charts, is something of a disaster. Fortunately I have moved my books to...

It’s giveaway time

You could win 1 of 3 paperback copies of Following a tip from my coach through this Indie World, Carole P Roman, I've decided to hold a giveaway for my novel Where There's A Will; I'm running it through Amazon, who are handling the more onerous aspects of it, namely the distributing of the prizes...

A giveaway and a bargain

Today I'm providing my wonderful followers with not 1 but 2 great opportunities; first up is the change to win 3, that's right, 3 books from award winning author P D Workman, who is running a giveaway on Goodreads for her Medical Kidnap Files series. You can enter the giveaway here but before you do, you...

Not happy with Booksbutterfly

I'm not normally one to write a post about a negative experience with a website, it's not in my nature, but on this occasion I feel I need to. I was dubious the moment I saw the booksbutterfly.com site, it has a lot of packages available, most of which offer a guarantee of a certain...

An excerpt

The long road through rural Hampshire was devoid of any other traffic, and John Wilkins’ mind began to wander. Increasingly it focused on the meal he had waiting for him when he got home, not to mention a nice glass of cider, rather than on the road ahead of him or on his surroundings. He...

Coming soon…

It seems like now would be a good time to tell all of you that there is only a week to go until my debut novel is released. I have all but finished the editing, the formatting will only take a day or so to get organised, and the cover has already been created, so...