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The anatomy of a crowd-funded project.
Social Media Refusenik's Guide to Book Marketing No.58. In 2013 I undertook a crowd-funded project using the Kickstarter platform. In 2014, I wrote…
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Which self-publishing service?
Social Media Refusenik's Guide to Book Marketing No.11. There are multiple self-publishing services available to authors and writers, and they broadly…
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Five 'must-haves' for a writer's website
Social Media Refusnik's Guide to Book Marketing No.15. Over the years, I’ve read and reviewed many websites for authors and writers, often to provide a…
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The business of writing
Your writing life. I have two aims here at The Writing Shed: the first is to help writers (and it turns out other creative people) exercise their…
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Marketing vs advertising
Social Media Refusnik's Guide to Book Marketing No.2. Marketing and advertising are not the same thing! Yes, I know you already know that, but I do just…
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Creating the perfect Business Card
Social Media Refusnik's Guide to Book Marketing No.22
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Who is going to buy my book?
Social Media Refusnik's Guide to Book Marketing No.1. Today, I’d like to consider the question many authors have but don’t usually ask, which is almost…
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Within the sky, or without?
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 82. Between the 1st of October and the 9th of November, I kept a sky journal as part of an exercise intended to create a…
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Everything is Connected Part 4 - Ten Questions
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 72. I have thought long and hard about publishing this particular prompt, it’s been several months in cogitation and…
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One perfect notebook to rule them all
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 71. I love a good notebook and even though I spent over 30 years working in IT there was always something about the feel of…
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Cowgate
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 70. We humans tend to think we are superior to anything else that exists in the world, indeed superior to the world itself…
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REPRISE: A Recipe for Breaking Up
Weekly Writing Prompt No. 69. In March 2023 the writing prompts were all recipes of one sort or another from love potions, to changing the world, and…
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