Yes, I sometimes terrorise my students! As some of you may know, my prime function in life is to teach English as a second language to business professionals. Because I live in Europe, where English has become the lingua franca or bridge language between the various languages that are spoken throughout Europe, I have plenty to…
Oh look, I sold some books! I don’t really know how it happened, but in the past week, a bunch of people spread somewhere across this planet bought some of my books. Mostly ebooks, yet even some real paperbacks versions too. Now I’m not talking millions of copies in seven days, but enough to bring…
Learn how to use Twitter, extremely badly. Twitter is the strange animal in the world of social media. It operates on such an undefined set of rules that are so vague; it is even unclear if Twitter itself is sure as to how it all works. The best I’ve been able to calculate is that…
These are really weird book titles! Clearly, I have nothing better to do today than have a giggle at how easy it is to be really stupid. So join me in a quick giggle-fest of some of the crazy book covers and really weird book titles I stumbled on earlier today.
Selling a book isn’t easy Writing a book takes a long time, and for those authors new to self-publishing, the next step can be daunting – trying to attract readers willing to pay good money to buy your book. But first, they have to find your book. One of the most frequent questions I’m asked…
How to write a fantasic book I was reading Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ for about the umteenth time recently and it occurred to me that although a great read and full of wisdom, it might be a bit long for those who want to get a book out super fast on Amazon. So I thought…
