My late father Kingsley Squire and his elder brother Geoff, who still lives in Devon, were fortunate enough to grow up in Branscombe, a quintessential English village by the sea. Living in the schoolhouse, where their father Stanley, was headmaster, they were given freedoms today’s generations will never know… Here are two extracts from his […]
Tag: self-publishing
How to self publish your book or novel. Advice from real-life authors who’ve self published their book.
Courtney Adamo silences the trolls…
Courtney Adamo deletes posts from her Instagram account after fans criticise her… It’s a familiar problem for all of us writing on social media – what do you do when trolls begin leaving unkind messages on your posts? Courtney Adamo seems to have come up with the perfect solution – recently, after receiving some unpleasant […]
Should you post photos of your kids on social media?
Oversharing? Is it time to stop posting so many personal photos of our children on sites such as Facebook and Instagram? Posting photos of our children on social media has become incredibly fashionable. Indeed I follow many very public profiles on Instagram where the focus is the children. And the information given by the parents […]
Literary Lifestories … how a ghostwriter can turn your life story into a novel…
Mum of one Natasha Collins tells why she believes documenting your own life story into a novel can be a wonderful gift to pass down the generations – and how she has set up a service helping people do just that…
Press, media, publishing – predictions for 2015
Hello to the NEW celebrities. Once celebrity status used to be confined to pop bands, film and TV stars. But all that is changing. The new celebrities have never been on TV or starred in a Hollywood movie. Instead they are ordinary people gaining thousands of followers simply tweeting about their own lives, self-promoting with stunning photos on Instagram or gaining an audience through blogging…
Author Spot: Al Ferguson
New dad, teacher and blogger Al Ferguson tells how the arrival of his own baby prompted him not only to start a blog, but write a book, New Dad book of Secrets…
Author Spot: Haley Hill
Author and former matchmaker agency owner Haley Hill tells how getting a literary agent didn’t help her get published – but how instead she found success self-publishing her book, It’s Got to be Perfect…
Author Spot: Rita Wilkinson
Rita Wilkinson tells how she began her book as a little project on her computer and how throughout her lifetime she always wanted to write but until now, never had the confidence …
Author Spot: Katherine Thompson
What happens if you wake up one day and remember nothing about your past life? Katherine Thompson talks about her book chronicling her memory loss – The Day I woke up and how she got published…
Author Spot: Michael Linford
Michael Linford tells how a combined passion for books and music – and wondering which are the 20 best songs you would want to hear were the world to end – inspired him to write his debut novel, Music for the end of the world…