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The prompt this month was to complete “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” in a novel way. In this, you manifestly succeeded :) In fact, this was arguably the best OPS contest we've run so far. The results are as follows...

I suggest joining the Alliance of Independent authors and checking out their podcasts and blogs and resources - it's very helpful. But as has already been mentioned writing and publishing is the easy bit - you also have to find an audience, and...

People may not, or seldom, buy a book because they want to own the cover, but that does not at all mean that the cover plays no role in the buying process. The cover - the imagery, the colours, the font - is what signals what kind of...

I second all of what Nikky said. I have self-published 14 books, and for me the key components are paying an editor and a cover designer. I do my interior formatting in Affinity Publisher (which is very like Adobe Creative Suite, but much cheaper...

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Iris Murdoch

Happy New Year to you too Pete. Let's hope it's a good one.

I am reader first and a writer second, so I am always reading something. This is a quick update as I have not posted in this thread before. I have just finished Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy published in a fine edition by the Folio...

Many thanks Nicky. It really is good of you to respond. I can write websites or, in fact, nowadays use Wordpress and just worry about the back end stuff. I have also used Mailchimp for many years (their FREE plan is 500 contact emails and upto...

Thanks - that really is useful. One point sticks in my mind though: in all the decades of book buying I have never bought a novel because of its cover, however I have NOT bought a book because of its cover. Interesting eh. It makes me wonder if I...

Dear All, Having lurked around Litopia for many years my MS is going through a final edit (this time I mean it) and will be ready for publishing soon. Having gone the rounds of submitting and being rejected by agents I have decided to 'publish...