More Tea with my Favourite Reader – Sonja Nemecek

More Tea with my Favourite Reader  – a second helping! PUBLISHED ON 5. June 2018 Last week we managed to find our ideal reader. This time we want to impress them with our knowledge. Sure, but how? There is a proverb: ‘The bait has to be savoured by the fish not...

Tea with my Favourite Reader – Sonja Nemecek

Tea with my Favourite Reader – Part I PUBLISHED ON 21. May 2018 Let me not bore you with the fact that every good story is useless without fully fleshed characters. You know that, of course. You are a writer. What is so obvious for a fictional or historical novel...

How to publicise your book

It’s no use producing a brilliant book if nobody knows about it. Getting good PR is essential.  Our PR partner is Helen Lewis of Literally PR who has achieved some spectacular coverage. So how does it work?  Step one is to open the Author PR Questionnaire and...

Highlights from the March AuthorCraft

If you didn’t come to the latest Authorcraft meeting in March you missed a dazzling array of speakers covering everything from the inside story on the plight of retired greyhounds in the racing industry, to the difference writing a book has made in the life of one of...

Book Launch stops the traffic!

‘[metaslider id=”1899″] Double-takes as look-a-like celebrities take to the streets In a walk-about to promote Barbara Angela Kealy’s new book     “Double Deception” Emerging from London’s iconic Hippodrome casino, some of show business’s most...

How to know what marketing is working for you – and what isn’t

by Chris Day The four weeks before publication are often the busiest time for authors for marketing their book. Many will be doing a pre-order campaign and supporting it with a flurry of social media activity. Others will be guest blogging on synergistic sites with a...