Archive for the ‘E-Book’ Category
Record UK book sales in 2012
Despite all the financial doom and gloom over the last few years, British publishers seem to be bucking the trend as they have reported record sales in 2012. According to this article on the BBC Website, total spending on books (both printed and digital form) rose to £3.3bn in 2012. That represents a 4% increase […]
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Tags: BBC, E-book, Kindle, Paperback, photography, Publishing, Reading, Writing
I read this article on the BBC News website about Amazon buying Goodreads. I’m sure you know all about Goodreads, most blogs I visit tend to have one of their widgets somewhere to show what books you’ve all read over the last few months. If you’re not familiar with the site then it is all […]
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Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Goodreads, Otis Chandler, Reading, Writing
My first novel, a psychological thriller called FRY, launched on Amazon this week. It took me over ten years to write it. Not because it’s particularly long (it’s just under 80,000 words) or because it involved a lot of research. No, I just didn’t plan. I had the idea for the name and one key […]
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Tags: Amazon, eBooks, FRY, Kindle, London School of Journalism, May Queen Killers, novel, novel writing, Pantser, Planner, psychological thriller
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 505 KB Print Length: 289 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0007508646 Publisher: Harper (1 Jan 2013) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Official Site: Dean Koontz Overview (courtesy of Goodreads) THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner […]
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Tags: Dean Koontz, E-book, Forever Odd, Goodreads, Odd Interlude, Odd Thomas, Reading, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 411 KB Print Length: 233 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612184456 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (27 Nov 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Overview Andrew Morrison sacrificed everything—his childhood, his education, and the girl of his dreams—to look after his alcoholic mother. But enough is enough, and now he’s determined to get out and […]
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Tags: Andrew Morrison, Ania Ahlborn, Basic Instinct, Blue Velvet, Kindle, Reading, Writing
I’ve been tagged for the The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. Again. The post for my response for A Scream In The Woods is here. H. Conrad Miller over at A Side of Writing has nominated me this time and fortunately, I have another WIP to talk about. For those of you not familiar with this Blog […]
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Tags: Blog Hop, Mark Billingham, Reading, Robbie Coltrane, Sheffield, Writing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 407 KB Print Length: 215 pages Publisher: Mirrorball Books (15 May 2012) Sold by: Amazon UK, Amazon US Language: English Overview How does it feel to lose everything you own? Stella Hill is proud of the home she’s created for herself and her daughter. She’s worked hard to buy the very best of everything … But […]
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Tags: Books, Can't Live Without, Joanne Phillips, Reading, recommended books
Yet more drafting
Happy New Year! I hope you’re all well and enjoying the first few days of 2013. When I finished Camp NaNo and the first draft of A Scream In The Woods, I intended having a short break and then jumping head first into the next draft of my Crime Novel. The one I’ve been writing since 1954. […]
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Tags: Lower Slaughter, Reading, Sandsend, Scrivener, Whitby, Writing
Eclectic Reading in 2012
It’s the penultimate day of 2012. Time for my last post of 2012.This was the year of the challenges. I have to thank the fabulous Book’d Out blog for setting this challenge and in the 12 months I sort of completed it. By sort of, I mean that I read books in the 12 genres […]
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Tags: Alice Sebold, Books, David Baldacci, Dean Koontz, Eclectic Reading, Hunger Games, Jeff Lindsay, Suzanne Collins
