by Ruth Lunn | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
Goodreads is the world’s largest website for readers, authors and book recommendations. Readers can search for new books, new authors, share reviews, and keep track of what they’ve read. And because there are so many readers on the site, it’s a great place for authors...
by Dan Brady | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
I came across a great podcast just the other day, where Steve Scott – an Amazon best-selling, self-published author – shares his experience and tips. If you’re writing a book, there’s some invaluable advice in this podcast, which shouldn’t be missed. Steve Scott has...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 17, 2017 | Blog
We’ve come up with a nice little analogy about your book being on Amazon. Imagine your book as a product available in a shop on a shelf somewhere; it exists but it’s not out in the open for everyone to see. Sure, people might stumble across it by chance at some point...
by Dan Brady | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
In the UK, it’s every publisher’s obligation to send at least one copy of a published book, free of charge, to the British Library. This has been in English law for printed books and papers since 1662 (and for electronic publications since 2013). Since...
by Dan Brady | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Ebooks
When choosing categories for your Kindle ebook on Amazon, there are over 3,500 categories to choose from. Keywords are important – often it can be useful to target more specialist, niche subcategories, so that your ebook has a greater chance of ranking well. However,...
by Ruth Lunn | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
One of the questions we get asked occasionally by some of our more optimistic and forward-thinking authors is in relation to film adaptation rights and I was reminded about this at the weekend when I went to see The Martian at the cinema. For those of you who don’t...
