Self Publishing Journeys

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors

Philippa Donovan is an editor who established her business – Smart Quill – in 2011.

Since then she has worked with around 300 authors and recommends to a stable of 50 literary agents based in the UK, Australia, and the US.

In 2014 she was named Publishing Rising Star and is Editorial Consultant for the Authors’ Club at Soho House West Hollywood.

Particularly exciting is Philippa’s recent move to LA will herald great opportunities for authors; connecting up selected manuscripts with literary agents, film and TV producers via an online platform, The Smart Quill Boutique.

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors

Kate Turner is a UK based author who writes as KS Turner.

Her debut novel, Before the Gods, was the first from the epic fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Fate and Choice. Book Two – Tumultus – is also available with the final story – Time – currently in progress.

Kate originally trained as a designer and illustrator and when she isn’t writing, likes to draw, paint, sculpt, study maths, theology and philosophy and play music, among many other things!

Kate is doing some really interesting things in self-publishing, including setting up her own independent publishing company.

The Essential Weekly Podcast For New And Aspiring Indie Authors

Andrew Lowe is an author and book editor from the North of England.

His writing has been published in several magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Mens Health.

He’s also worked in creative and digital roles with GQ, Vogue, Wired and Total Film. He writes psychological thrillers novels and short stories.

His latest novel, The Ghost, is the story of a troubled film critic who finds himself menaced by the victim of a childhood prank.

When he’s not working on his own words, he’s a fiction editor who specialises in copy editing but also offers developmental/structural work and copywriting.

This week's round up of my own self-publishing news.

Helen Fazal is a qualified proofreader and copy-editor.

She is a Professional Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders.

Helen has now copy-edited and proofread all six of my fiction books, so I invited her on the podcast to share her best tips and advice about this essential self-publishing process.

This week's round up of my own self-publishing news.

Matt Hilton quit his career as a police officer to pursue his love of writing – he’s been creating stories since childhood.

He is the author of the Joe Hunter thriller series, which includes his most recent novel ‘The Devil’s Anvil’ – number 10 in the Joe Hunter series.

His stories have been translated into German, Italian, Romanian and Bulgarian. Matt also self-publishes some of his books and these projects run alongside his traditionally published works.

He is currently working on indie publishing the next Joe Hunter novel, No Safe Place, in May 2016.