WRITING MY FIRST BOOK Part Three of WHY HAD I HAD TO WRITE MY FIRST BOOK. GRACE ROSCOE. Click either PART ONE or PART TWO to read the previous posts. In the previous posts, I mentioned how I found Grace on an Ancestry site when I started researching my family tree. I found her fascinating, especially after hearing whispers…
ROMANCE IN THE EIGHTEEN CENTURY
THE ROMANCE OF GRACE & JOHN Part Two of the story Go to PART ONE – WHY I HAD TO WRITE MY FIRST BOOK – HERE to learn how I found Grace Roscoe, my fifth Great Grandmother. READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS OF GRACE ROSCOE HERE I wrote this story in 2014, set in the 18th…
THE STORY: WHY I HAD TO WRITE MY FIRST BOOK
MY FIRST BOOK -THE STORY As a young girl brought up on the outskirts of Liverpool, I often heard the family adults whispering amongst themselves. Curiosity almost overwhelmed me. What were they talking about they wouldn’t share with me? Years flew by, but the whisperings didn’t stop. When my mother eventually told me what was…
Promoting My Book: Press Article
Promoting Books Using the Press. Last week I was lamenting my poor efforts at book-marketing. Something many writers, and especially new writers find as a rather daunting task. Just writing a book isn’t enough for an author now, they have to actively go out and begin promoting (selling their books) unless they’re just writing for passion, and…
BOOK-MARKETING: Trials and tribulations
HOW TO ( NOT) MARKET A BOOK BOOK-Marketing is probably one of the hardest tasks an Indie writer has to contemplate. Most of us, when we first begin our creative journey of writing, don’t know much about book marketing. I personally found it all rather daunting, and am always very reluctant to sell myself (along…