Self Publishing Journeys

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Paul's Podcast Diary Feature

Chris Longmuir is an award winning crime writer.

She is best known for her Dundee Crime Series, featuring DS Bill Murphy. Night Watcher, the first book in the series, won the SAW (Scottish Association of Writers) Pitlochry Award, and the sequel, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize, as well as the Pitlochry Award.

Chris recently launched new historical crime thriller, Devil's Porridge and has also published a non-fiction book entitled Crime Fiction and the Indie Contribution.

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Paul's Podcast Diary Feature

Dina Santorelli is a writer editor, author and blogger.

She is the author of the award-winning debut novel, Baby Grand, a top-rated mystery/thriller and best-selling organised crime thriller on Amazon Kindle.

Having edited more than a thousand articles over the years, Dina has developed a keen and confident eye when it comes to polishing writers’ text, whether for articles or books.

Dina has been a freelance writer for over 15 years and has written for many publications and websites.

Melissa Addey writes historical novels and non-fiction books.

The first novel, which was set in China, The Fragrant Concubine, was longlisted for both the Mslexia Novel Competition and the Historical Novel Society Indie Award.

It landed Melissa an agent at Coombs Moylett & Maclean Literary Agency.

She also writes non-fiction books, the first being 100 Things to do while Breastfeeding and the second titled The Happy Commuter and has recently released The Storytelling Entrepreneur and Merchandise For Authors.

Melissa just finished a year as a Writer in Residence at the British Library in London and has spent three months this year being a blogger for Mslexia, the UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.

Harry Bingham is the author of the Fiona Griffiths series of crime novels.

The series is set in Cardiff and features a heroine described by the Sunday Times as ‘The most startling protagonist in modern crime fiction … brutal, freakish and totally original.’

Harry also created the Writers’ Workshop in 2005 by spending an initial £800 on a website offering editorial services.

The Writers’ Workshop is now the largest editorial consultancy in the UK.

The Festival of Writing is the biggest and best writers’ conference in the UK, and Agent Hunter is the UK’s premier online literary agent search tool.

Harry's books on Getting Published and How to Write are among the leading titles in their field and the first Fiona Griffiths novel was televised by Bonafide and broadcast on Sky Living.

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors

Author Platform Bootcamp Feature with Ian Sutherland

I am currently testing Ian's http://authorplatformsidekick.com/ service and this is an update on how it's going.

If you want to get your books ordered by traditional bookshops and libraries, then you need an alternative solution to publishing via Amazon's Createspace.

It's all to do with the ISBN numbers and the distribution channels, and it's a topic that confuses and trips up new indie authors time after time.

Put simply, you need to use a service like IngramSpark - in conjunction with Nielson for your ISBNs - to access the traditional distribution channels.

As the Marketing Manager at Ingram Content Group, Andrew Bromley is familiar with every question that indie authors could possibly ask about printing on-demand with the company.

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors Paul's Podcast Diary Feature

Kerry Fisher spent half her life talking about writing a novel, then several years at Candis magazine reviewing other people’s.

It wasn’t until she took some online courses with the University of California that the dream started to morph into reality, culminating in the self-publishing of The Class Ceiling.

The Avon imprint of HarperCollins picked it up and retitled it The School Gate Survival Guide, publishing in summer 2014.

Kerry’s second book, The Island Escape, came out in May 2015.

It won first prize at the York Festival of Writing for the opening line: ‘I was wearing the wrong bra for sitting in a police cell’.

Her latest novel, After the Lie, was published by Bookouture in April 2016.