by Dan | Aug 12, 2022 | writing, writing tips
Coming up with ideas for your story can be hard. Here’s one way you can come up with ideas for your novel or short story by putting your audience first. The most common question I get when people find out I’m an author is “Where do you get your ideas...
by Dan | Oct 29, 2016 | Book Reviews, Galactic Arena, Sci-fi, writing, writing tips
Indie authors are always banging on about reviews. This is because they are important for helping you to sell more books, for many reasons like social proof influencing buyer decisions and also some promotion services only accept books with a certain number of them or...
by Dan | Sep 8, 2016 | Book Reviews, writing, writing tips
Are you a big reader, do you get through a lot of books? If you’re looking for selected, discounted or free books, do you use the website My Book Cave? There are a lot of book promo sites out there but this one has the best website design, right? It’s...
by Dan | Aug 19, 2016 | Indie publishing, writing, writing tips
So you’re an author writing fiction and you need to describe the dimensions of a space. Do you write four hundred meters? Four-hundred-meters ? 400 meters? 400-meters? Is it different if you’re writing dialogue? Is it different if you’re writing...
by Dan | Jan 13, 2016 | Indie publishing, writing, writing tips
A few days ago I was interviewed by author Lorna Suzuki for her All Kinds of Writing Blog. It was great fun, Lorna asked a lot of considered questions such as: What do you get when you mix historical fiction with the supernatural? You get The Immortal Knight...
by Dan | Aug 5, 2015 | fantasy, history, horror, steampunk, writing, writing tips
You got to get other people to look at your writing and give you honest feedback before you publish, you just have to. They can tell you what stuff they liked and what stuff they thought was boring. They can tell you what works well and what doesn’t make sense....
