“Demonspawn” Audiobook Now In For Review!

Hello, friends and fans!

It’s been an active few days and no mistake – yesterday Moon Books published a novelette of mine (“Lifetime”) and I also found out that the audiobook for “Demonspawn” has finished recording and has been submitted for review at Audible!

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Some Great Resources For Writers

These days, writers – especially self-published writers – typically need to do their own marketing, book and cover design and… well, everything!

In the course of my own writing journey, I encountered some good resources and added them to my list – and thought it might be a good idea to share it with other struggling indie authors. That said, I compiled a short list of free self-publishing platforms, ecommerce sites, file converters, royalty-free image sources, useful reference pages and cover design/3d mockup sites that should help make your workload as an indie writer easier!

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Another Round At The Crow Bar #44 August 2020

Hello friends and fans!

Welcome to my 44th newsletter – August 2020!

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Expand The Brand: Hally Park Publishers

For quite a while now I’ve been working to expand my marketing reach, and in the spirit of that endeavor I recently contracted with Hally Park Publishers – a South African small press who also list suitable self-published titles on their website – to list my eBooks!

It’s taken a little time for them to appear on their website – after all, I’m not the only author they have listed, and I have just over 30 books – so I’m sure that was quite a job! Nevertheless, the first fifteen appeared on their site during the night (yes, I’ve been watching)!

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Guest Writer #4: Lee Hall

Welcome, readers – to the fourth in a series of posts on my website featuring writers from around the world.

Today it’s my privilege and pleasure to welcome Lee Hall, a writer from the UK!

Lee is an Indie author, playwright and award nominated blogger. His works include ‘Open Evening’, ‘Darke Blood’, ‘the Teleporter’ and ‘Cemetery House’. Lee is the resident playwright for Iver Heath Drama Club – a non profit community group located just outside greater London, and he’s also a book reviewer! In that capacity he’s written a truckload of reviews for many indie-writers, generously helping fellow independents to draw badly-needed attention to their books! He also offers a list of free Resources for Writers/Bloggers from his website.

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Coming Soon: “Malice!” – The Audiobook!

Hello, friends and fans!

This is really a busy month, isn’t it? Following the release of the audiobook version of “Blachart“, I’ve also been promoting upcoming new audiobook releases as well!

The list of new titles fast on their way includes “Demonspawn“, “When Darkness Calls” and “Malice!”

“Malice!” is currently in the recording stage and should be out within the next month or so. The narrator is Michelle Innes.

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Coming Soon: “Demonspawn” – The Audiobook!

Hello, friends and fans!

Over the past week or so I’ve been promoting the newly released audiobook version of “Blachart” – and again, if you give the preview a listen or watch the audiobook trailer I made this week, you’ll see (or rather hear) why I’m so excited about it!

“Blachart” is the first book in my Galaxii series, and since the first book has now been released, I wanted to share more about the second book which is being recorded right now by the very same narrator as the first – narrator par excellence, Nigel Peever!

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“Blachart” – TWO Audiobook Trailers!

Hello, friends and fans!

Today I want to show you not one, but two book trailer videos – that’s right, TWO!

Over the past week or so I’ve been promoting the newly released audiobook version of “Blachart” – and if you give the preview a listen, you’ll see (or rather hear) why I’m so excited about it!

So much so, that yesterday I spent a good few hours making a new book trailer video specially for the audiobook release – featuring a 2 minute portion of the actual audiobook preview sound file as narrated by Nigel Peever!

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“When Darkness Calls” – Actually A True Story

“When Darkness Calls” started out as a memoir of true-life events that occurred in December 2011 – events that involved real people, myself included. Yes – what I’m saying is that it was a true story – as a matter of fact, it’s my own recollection of events that occurred at that time.

“But wait,” I hear some of you say, “This is a supernatural story – like with poltergeists and stuff!”

Yes.

Does that mean all that guff about spooks and things that go bump in the dark is true? Well, maybe. At least I think there’s some truth to it. I know I certainly didn’t imagine any of this.

And it’s true.

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A Visit To The Archives!

Yesterday I went through my old writing archive. ‘What’s that?’ you might wonder – and more importantly, why would I even have one?
Well, to give you an idea, like most writers today I create my stories and edit and format them on a PC. In fact, since I started writing on a PC back in 2003, life has been much easier for me as a writer – not to mention lighter! Of course it wasn’t always this way – before that, I used to do it the old-fashioned way, with paper and a pen – lots and lots of paper as it turns out!
I used to scribble notes to myself about quick story ideas, funny quips or cool ideas on odd little bits of paper so I wouldn’t forget them, then later add some more ideas to it – in the form of more bits of paper of course – and perhaps even add a story plan… or two! If I was feeling particularly creative that day, I might also have added a couple of sketches, maybe a map or technical drawings – and so on! Naturally, since I started writing when I was very young, around seven – and I did a lot of writing even before I switched over to doing it on PC’s – this means I generated a lot of writing-related material between 1980 and 2003!

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