In April, I attended London Book Fair for the second time. The first was two years ago before I’d finished writing my debut novel. While there, I was briefly interviewed by Nick Rippington, a journalist and soon-to-publish indie author. The story he wrote as a result has just been published in the Sunday Express, a UK national newspaper. In it, he charts the rise of ebooks and indie publishing and their effect on the London Book Fair and the publishing industry in general.
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Continue readingThe first responsibility any author has to their readers is obvious: write and publish a great book. That means it should be well written and if you’re an indie author it should be professionally packaged (i.e. good cover, compelling blurb and have been through a proper copy-edit). The second responsibility an indie author has to […]
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