Category: Reading and Literacy

  • My Sock Puppet Recommends… The Dragon Trilogy by me!

    A sock puppet, in the modern literary world, is an author who adopts a fake persona with which to write glowing testimonials about their books on Amazon and other book review sites. Worse still, they write derogatory reviews of their main competition’s works and give them one star ratings! (This is an adult author thing.…

  • “Special Sales” – is it worth being an author anymore?

    When I started out as an author, many years ago, I knew where I stood. I got 10% of cover price for hardbacks and 7.5% for paperbacks. A book club deal was jam on top. The Net Book Agreement meant all trade books were sold at cover price everywhere. The Net Book Agreement was designed…

  • The Great Malarkey Festival – Hull 2017

    I can’t believe a week has gone by since The Great Malarkey Children’s Festival in Hull. I got back Sunday night and had to pile straight into a major rewrite of a story on Monday and Tuesday before heading off to London on Wednesday for the Fabulous Harper Collins 200th Birthday Party at the Victoria…