Book bloggers have become an essential part of publishing.
If you are an indie author you are not going to sell many books without them. Far more importantly than that, you will never find a more engaged, passionate group of book lovers – and, asides from ourselves, these are the people we write for, right?
In this article I’m going to talk about why book bloggers are so important and what they do, about book blog tours and the one taking place for my novel Vile, about how to find the Book Blogger for you, and some does and don’ts when dealing with these very important people in the world of publishing. I’ll also be reviewing all of the blogs that are reviewing my book on the blog tour. Vengeance! (Just kidding. Probably).
Last November I ran a successful Kickstarter that led to the publication of my first novel, Vile, a Science Fantasy adventure about Elianor Paine and just how much she is prepared to sacrifice to subvert her masters and start a revolution. It’s got monsters, sword-fights, and arguments about ontology – what more could you want?
In this article I’ve gathered together all the best bits of material from the Kickstarter, so if you missed all that or it wasn’t your thing then you can find out all about the book here. There are videos, readings, the film of my opening my first copy, and even me singing. Yes, I was that desperate. So, if you want to find out about Vile, read on! If I had you at “November”, you can skips straight ahead to Amazon and buy a copy now 🙂
The 2019 Open Competition is now closed for entries. Good luck to everyone who submitted a play. I shall start reading everything once the holidays are over and announce the longlist as soon as possible.
I’m aware that some people did not receive a notification when they submitted their play, or did not see the notification; either way I’ll take a look at making it work in a different way should we run another competition.
Equally, I know one or two people were concerned that a part of one form said “2018” rather than “2019”. There’s nothing to worry about, that’s just my failure to fully update everything from last year. Again, if we run a new competition, I’m going to work on new pages to make things a little clearer.
As of now we have a little more than 200 entries, which is impressive over the holiday season and should keep me busy for a while! Thank you everyone who has taken part, and best of luck.
This article was written by the awesome Claire Peacey, a professional artists who specialises in bookcovers and RPG Art: check out her website at https://cpeacey.wixsite.com/autumnsky. I highly recommend her if you need a cover for your book; I certainly intend to work with her again!
There’s a certain lack of truth to the phrase ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ – whilst this may be a wonderful metaphor for looking to the core of a person, it’s rubbish for actual books. The cover is the first and foremost thing we do choose them on.
On Sunday 2nd December at the Pomme D’Eve in Paris it was our very great pleasure to present the five finalists of our Little Wonder Radio Plays’ “Breaking Boundaries” short audio-drama competition:
The Fall by Zoe Grainge
Buddha Hat by Clare Shaw
Flamingo by Thoko Masikini
Pride of Rotterdam by Tom Harvey
Like Taking Candy from a Baby by Michael Lin
The event was performed by Stephanie Campion, Hannah Coyle, Taylor Scott, Alexandra Tomko. Johnny Palmer, and John Romano, and organised by the incomparable Moving Parts – Paris’ only bilingual playreading workshop.
