Tag: books
-
New Cover
Just a quick update to say that I have changed the cover for the ebook version of Acts of Violence to fit the new paperback version (available soon). There’s a little man and everything! Here they both are:
-
Suspending Disbelief: The Line
When it comes to films, games, and even books, we’re often expected – and required – to suspend our disbelief concerning certain things. Giant, transforming, alien robots…okay. Scientist turns into a big green monster when he gets miffed…fine. Peter Quill floats in space for a minute and survives?! Absolutely unacceptable!
-
Kindle Direct Publishing Formatting Guide
I recently wrote a guide on writing a book, and in it I said that I would write a guide to formatting for KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). This will be vaguely similar to my Smashwords formatting guide, but simpler.
-
How to Write a Book: The End
We’ve done the preparation, the writing, the editing, and you feel like you’ve reached the peak of a mountain. Now it’s time to turn around and see the next peak looming over you.
-
How to Write a Book: The Middle
Finally, we’re ready to start the fun part. It only took us 3,000 words to get here. All of that preparation might have been a pain, but there are two bits of good news. First, if you made it through the pain, there’s a good chance you’re definitely writer. Second,…
-
Reviews and Amazon Rants
It means a lot to get good reviews. It means quite a lot to get a good rating, though slightly less than a well thought out review. It also means a lot when Amazon decides ‘f*** you, we don’t like you having nice things, so we’ll delete your best reviews’.…
-
Days of Winter Guardians
I have left it so long since the last blog post that the whole layout of this New Post screen has changed. But anyway, it’s time to update the world on my goings on and allow you to unbate your breath. The main, important things are that I have now…
-
The Indie Author Manifesto
This is fairly self-evident. Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, has created this manifesto of what it means to be an indie author. The original post can be found here.
-
Anatomy of a Book Cover
As usual, a slightly misleading title. I’m not going to share my theories of what makes the perfect book cover. I’m going to share my process of getting a book cover. Because I don’t have anything better to do. Step Uno The first thing I do is think what I…
-
Acts of Violence
As you may have gathered from the counter on the right ending its countdown, and from me saying several times, Acts of Violence is now available! Acts of Violence is a semi-noir (though beta readers have stated there’s nothing semi about it) thriller. It is, strictly speaking, sci-fi as well,…
ROSS HARRISON 