Every industry has a downside … Indie Publishing is no exception. With the huge inroads Independent Publishing has made in publishing industry has come the arrival of predators to feed on the naïve and the gullible…. I well remember my old dad telling me that ‘A fool and their money are easily parted.’ Unfortunately today […]

Back in the day Indie (Self) Publishing was considered the realm of the desperate …the final act of a drowning writer…. on rare occasions… like akin to the chance of a meteor dropping through the roof of your house… a self published book would catch fire and a traditional publisher would swoop, buy up the rights, give the […]

Seven for A Secret by Shirley Wine For sale for a limited time only …. 99cents Why has she never known her life was one colossal Lie? When a posthumous letter from her father destroys Anna Belmonte’s sense of Identity . . . she goes in search of her birth mother . . . and the […]

Passion in Paradise hits #1 on iBookstore for Romance #1 for all books             The Farmer Takes A Wife is #4 in top 10 Indie Books of the week…. See the fill list on the link below https://www.indieauthorland.com/archives/4551 Top 10 Books: Week ending July 26, 2013 www.indieauthorland.com Wondering what to read on […]

Rural Romance is the hot new genre that has taken the world by storm…readers are clamouring for more…but is this something new… Readers of all types have long been captivated by cowboys and horses… throw in a few bad guys, the exciting danger of a stage coach robbery or two….and a little rough justice…. and an author […]

Winter is tough for our little feathered friends so we always try to help them survive the cold. Last night Jack Frost paid a visit and this morning the birds were flocking to the feeding station. Our Carter’s navel Orange has a huge crop this year and the frost always makes a percentage of the crop fall before they are […]

This debate is raging on Kirsten Lamb’s blog First Kirsten asked the question: Should authors write bad reviews? This created a huge debate with many authors of the opinion that leaving poor reviews would return to bite them and damage their own author’s brand. But even worse than this, leaving a bad review as in 1 […]

Revisiting an old post… How to Create Emotional Tension in your writing. Often writers get rejections that say in essence not enough emotional tension. So what is strange creature “Emotional Tension”? It is the No 1 essential ingredient in a book, any book. Emotional tension is what hooks your readers…and keeps them turning the page. Write […]

When was the last time you shocked your readers? Jolted them outside their comfort zone? When was the last time you made a statement in your WIP that made a reader say….Whoa…I never expected that… The key to keeping your reader interested is to deliver well thought out and well planned emotional bullets….never underestimate the value of shocking your readers […]

When I finished Lovers’ Lies …. Logan Sinclair had walked away from the Darkhaven Racing Stud, leaving everyone mystified as to why he disappeared. Now Logan has returned to Cambridge, older, wiser and with far more baggage than the duffle bag he’d slung over one shoulder when he walked away… As he returns to take up […]