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Marketing Is A Creative Drain

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... and I'm falling helplessly down it . So, I published The Pink Herring at the end of March intending to spend a small proportion of my time on marketing activity - the majority devoted to working on the next book. Two months on and guess what? I have managed the exact opposite of that proportion...

How I Write: 25 Bullets...

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Before I started writing in earnest, I did some research   on how others approach writing fiction, hoping to find a magic bullet technique that I could use. However, the more I looked, the more varied the methods of writing I found and the less convinced I became that I would ever find one which would make my task any easier...

LinkedIn Article

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I wrote this article for LinkedIn to explain how I got into writing fiction after taking what turned out to be rather a long sabbatical from the corporate world...

Who Wants To Be An Indie Author?

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Lynda and Tim O'Rourke A few weeks back, my daughter Rachel mentioned that her friend, Joe, had a father who was a local independent autho r , Tim O'Rourke . Joe kindly offered his father's services to me, through Rachel, should I need any advice about self-publishing. Are you kidding? Of course I'd like to meet him.