There are many reasons writers choose to use a pen name for one or more books. Usually, it’s because of a complete change of genre or perhaps the topic matter is too far removed from what their loyal readers expect from authors they have read. If an author is well known for children books, perhaps…
Writing is a bit like cooking. The more you do it, the better you get at it. If I think back to my first attempts at writing, oh, and my first attempts at cooking, I can look back and laugh until my sides split. While writing seems to many like such a natural thing to…
Is Amazon KDP Select the best publishing choice? I have been doing a lot of hand-wringing recently about moving all of my ebooks into Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, and by doing so, granting Amazon exclusive rights to my ebooks. I wrote about this in my last post. Yet my dilemma is small fry…
There is nothing that pumps stronger in the heart of true Australians than the Man From Snowy River. From its origins as a poem written in 1890 to songs and movies, it is the pulse of what it is to be Australian. The fact that the Snowy River was dammed in the 1950s and has…
It’s a tough decision to publish exclusively. I have been self-publishing for a very long time, well before the introduction of the Amazon Kindle in 2007, so I think I have been around the block a few times. Over the years, and particularly during the last eight years, I have have had a love-hate relationship with Amazon,…
