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Kindle Publishing, First Steps
You’ve written your book and you are ready to publish it for Amazon Kindle. And (to quote the late, great Elvis Presley) that’s when your heartache begins...Having previously published a book with...
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How To Create A Kindle Table Of Contents
When the time came for me to test out my book in the Kindle Previewer, everything was find any dandy – apart from one thing: the pesky table of contents.There was nothing wrong with the Table Of...
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Publishing To Smashwords, Kindle, Apple and More...
So you’ve published your novel for Kindle, but what about selling it in the Apple Store or on Barnes and Noble? One way of doing this is to republish the book to Smashwords...
View ArticleInterview with, well, me...
I've just been interviewed by the novelist, David H Burton on his site, 'Random Musings'. If you want to know who I am, how long I've been writing and why I have made the decision to publish my...
View ArticleNew Romantic Murders For Nook Book
Killers In Mascara (part one in my series of 'New Romantic Murders' set in 1980s London) is now available in 'Nook Book' format from Barnes & Noble - you lucky people ;-)
View ArticleE-Publishing, Print Publishing and T. rex
Joe Konrath is one of the best selling Kindle-published novelists in the world. That means he is also one of the best selling novelists in the world. According to his Wikipedia entry he spent twelve...
View ArticleKindle Author Interview
David Wisehart interviewed me on the Kindle Author web site this week. Should you be interested in finding out how the experience publishing to paperback (something I'm also doing this year) compares...
View ArticleUK general title digital book sales soar to £16m in 2010
Sales of digital books are soaring in the UK, figures from the Publishers Association show. The association said that in 2010 sales of e-books and audio book downloads in the "general titles" category,...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle book sales overtake print titles
The digital-reading revolution is more than just a flash in the pan. It really does seem that ever more people prefer to read on the Kindle than on paper..."Customers are now choosing Kindle books more...
View ArticleCheap Kindle Books - How to find them!
There are lots of good value books available for Kindle, but just how the heck can you find them? One simple way is to use the Jungle-Search advanced Amazon search tool at http://www.jungle-search.com....
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Paranormal Romance - Broken
Just heard that David H Burton has published a new paranormal romance, Broken, which you can download and read right now! David's a pretty prolific writer so if you get hooked on this one, be sure to...
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New 'super Kindle' on its way
Amazon will shortly launch a new 10-inch color Kindle tablet that will support streaming video and sell for around $399, according to a report recently released by investment firm Detwiler...
View ArticleKindle Author's Pre-Publishing Checklist
I’ve just published my third Kindle book (this is the second novel in my ‘1980s New Romantic Murders’ series) and, once again, I realised that I had forgotten all the niggly little things I needed to...
View ArticleThe Glam Assassin - an excerpt
YouTube videos give authors a great way to promote their books. My latest is a reading of the opening chapter of my latest 1980s murder mystery, The Glam Assassin. And here it is!
View ArticleImpeding Justice Crime Novel: Interview
Top selling Kindle author, Mel Colmley, interviews me on her blog. But hurry, it's only there until Tuesday 26th July, 2011...Impeding Justice Crime Novel: Interviews with other Indie Authors.
View ArticleWaterstone's to launch e-reader - is this good news...?
I'm really not at all sure that this is a good idea! Waterstones is a traditional High Street bookshop in the UK. They don't have a great track history of selling on the Internet and, frankly, why...
View ArticleMobipocket Creator JavaScript Problems
I just uploaded the third novel in my 1980s New Romantic Murder Mysteries series today (it’s called ‘Death Wears Sequins’, by the way, and, by Jove! it’s a damn’ riveting read!).All was going well when...
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Formatting a Kindle Book For Lulu or CreateSpace
So you’ve published your book to Kindle. Now you want to release it as a paperback. The two main ‘print-on-demand’ options you might consider are CreateSpace or Lulu. The main advantage of CreateSpace...
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Using Style Sheets
When you are formatting books for either eBook or printed book publication, you should be sure to set up style sheets. A style sheet contains named font and paragraph formatting options that can be...
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Interview with Downing College Magazine
I was one of three crime authors interviewed for the magazine of my old college (Downing College, Cambridge) recently. We talked about my life in journalism, 1980s pop music and the three 1980s murder...
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