Uncategorized Finding it tough to get published? You’re not alone… 29 Apr 2018 So in my last blog, I shared a little of what I had found out about publishing and distribution from helpful people in the industry such as Ross from Nottingham’s…
Uncategorized Discovering more about publishing and distribution… a mine-field of hurdles but none that are insurmountable! 22 Apr 2018 It seems ironic that today on the eleventh anniversary of the loss of my mother that I should be sitting here writing about my journey to publishing my first book…
Uncategorized To self-publish or find a publisher to take on my work… that is the question! 15 Apr 2018 Writing and publishing a book is easy! How wrong could I be? As a novice author there are so many pitfalls to consider. My first step was to google publishing…
Uncategorized First steps in editing a children’s book… 7 Apr 2018 So having found Ben Blacknall as the illustrator I wanted to work with, the production process started. I spent a lot of time researching how books are printed and different…
Uncategorized Publish a book; concept to print. A diary of one writer’s journey… finding an illustrator 11 Mar 2018 In my last blog, I introduced how the concept of my book started life. The journey to becoming a published author had begun… After drafting my tale of “The Best…
Uncategorized Publish a book; concept to print. A diary of one writer’s journey… 25 Feb 2018 I fell into writing really by accident but I will attempt in this blog to bring about some of the key points in my journey that started some 16 months…
Uncategorized Orchard House Painting 13 Feb 201723 Sep 2017 So today I created a painting of our house. I took this picture, created a line drawing and then used acrylics to add in the colour.