The Business of Blurb Once I found this task a chore akin to cleaning or ironing. Now I enjoy it and even do it on other people’s books. It’s the pretty and mysterious sister of the synopsis. The synopsis is a dry technical report of the book’s beats with all the spoilers but the blurb …
THE WRITING LIFE: 3 Self-editing Tips you haven’t seen before PLUS the pitfalls we’ve all suffered
We’ve all done it. Self-editing. From my own experience, there’s also a blindness to self-editing because as a creator I am too close to my body of work. I see it every day. It’s like tasting your own cooking. Because you like the taste and you taste it every day doesn’t mean it’s good or at …
THE WRITING LIFE: Q&A with @MarginaliaManuscripts on Experience and Writing
In this #thewritinglife post, I’d like to focus on what and who has made us interested in reading and writing. I’ve had the pleasure and honour to work with and talk to Cambridge-qualified Mary-Anne Farah (Maz) and Holly of Marginalia Manuscripts about their personal stories. Editors are one of the key backstage players of the actual …
INTERVIEW: Book blogger Lesley Budge on the Ideal Reader (and how to find one)
Authors, do you have an Ideal Reader and readers, are you in fact one? I interviewed an avid reader and here’s what I found! Read my blog post here. Most blogs interview authors but that’s boring. As an author, I have been interviewed many times and I also have interviewed other authors. This time, …
Q & A on OVERBOARD: how to create suspense using multiple viewpoints
Your questions answered! Thank you for sending them. This 9 min video explores themes in OVERBOARD and how to create suspense using multiple viewpoints.
INSIDER SECRETS: 3 top writing tips that will change how and what you write
1. Write what you don’t know. Writing what you know is one of the worst pieces of writing advice. It must have come from the “old days” i.e. pre-internet where there was not enough information available to anyone so it would be dangerous and idiotic to stray past your own library. But today, how do …
OVERBOARD: Useful store links
Amazon (USA) Amazon (UK) Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, 24 Symbols, Angus & Robertson, !ndigo, Mondadori Store Google Play Books
20 Things to Do to Launch a Book
Update author photo, website and blog. Update Amazon author page individually, the dot com and the dot co dot uk. Update Goodreads author page. Get bookmarks, postcard and business cards printed with social media links. Set up Mailchimp. Prepare list of invitees to physical launch. Organise blog tour either yourself or through agent like blog …
3 Things I Learned on my Publishing Journey (making me a far superior writer now)
Note that I don’t call them mistakes. I call them “things learned”. I don’t see them as mistakes because they are just experiences that made me a better writer today, by miles. 1/ I tried to write as a white male person. It’s unbelievable but true. I just thought I’d better aim to be like …
New Write Ngeow logo design for 2020!
Revamping website, starting with logo design. From the 1st one which is the rough concept to the finished design, all drawn by hand.