I recently reorganised the book publishing side of things with Bonafide Media Publishing (BMP) and Dark Paradigm Publishing (DPP), merging into Bonafide Publishing (BP), a name I’ve used since publishing comics in the 1990s, but that’s another story. With the new...
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Top Self Publishing Courses Review 2023
When it comes to diving into the world of becoming a book publisher there is plenty of help available. Self publishing, or Indie Publishing as some authors prefer to call it is fast becoming a perfectly legitimate method of getting your work in front of readers but...
Self Publishing Show 2022 Report
I was fully hyped and primed for the second SPS at the South Bank Centre in London this year. A meeting of author minds was long overdue; this one didn’t disappoint. It was a superb opportunity to hear inspirational and informative presentations from Indie authors and...
Mark Dawson’s Ads for Authors Review
Mark Dawson’s Ads for Authors course has been setting the standard for Self-Published authors for a few years now and has a reputation for quality along with Mark’s other systems. Ads for Authors typically opens its doors only twice a year, currently open for twenty...
2022 Plans and all that
A new year is here and with it big plans. Let’s not mention that 2022 is pronounced ‘2020 too’ and move on swiftly to brighter more positive things. It seems I only post to this blog in the new year so one of many new year’s resolutions is to fix that and post more...
Plottr Review 2023: Is Plottr the Best for Authors?
Plottr is downloadable software for outlining and it is mainly targeted towards fiction writers. It allows you to create a comprehensive view of your story (plots, subplots, characters, and chapters) so you have a clear direction when writing. But, is this software...
Is ProWritingAid Ideal for You? A Review for 2020
Are you a freelance writer looking for easy-to-use, quality online editing software? Or, you are a student wanting to polish your paper or an essay before turning it in? Perhaps, you’re an academic, and you want research papers to shine in all their glory? No matter...
Self Publishing Show 2020
The Self Publishing Show was to be a prelude to the London Book Fair, a warm-up for indie authors from around the world before invading the international meet-up for the book industry. However, as big publishers pulled out of LBF one by one it soon became apparent it...
First London Book Fair 2019
I visited the London Book Fair for the first time recently at the historic Olympia in London and was fascinated by the engine of the publishing industry on display. Around the big 5 trade publisher areas, hordes of suits were getting down to business - agents,...