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‘In A Right State’ Launched! Buy It NOW!

July 7, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State' by Ben

Here it is! ‘In A Right State’ is now live on Amazon and awaiting your hard earned cash! Buy it, review it, retweet this, tweet something else, Facebook it, GoodReads it, Google Plus it, Friends Reunite it, MySpace it, write it on a toilet wall. It’s only the price of a pint. There’s no froth,

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‘In A Right State’ Cover Reveal!

July 1, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State' by Ben

OK, I’m really close to getting this thing launched, so here’s the cover. Isn’t she a beauty! My good friend Emery designed this and I’m so happy with it. It’s an illustration of an actual scene in the book but also gets across the general themes and ideas. I’m no scholar of book cover design

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Self-Publishing: eBook Extra’s

May 12, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State', Self-Publishing by Ben

The editor has returned a copy-edited manuscript and the cover is well on the way to being designed, so D-Day is fast approaching. This has got me thinking about the nuts and bolts of the ebook itself. First I need to put the ebook together as an HTML document, then think about getting it uploaded

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RIP ‘Railroaded’. Long live ‘In A Right State’!

March 30, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State', Self-Publishing by Ben

One of the first comments I got back from my editor on her critique of ‘Railroaded’ was; the title needs changing. She put it better than that. For a near-future sci-fi novel with no trains, railways, railroad companies or the like, it sounds a bit antiquated…and confusing. I chose ‘Railroaded’ because it’s about how everyone

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Self-Publishing: My goal & defining success

February 27, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State', Self-Publishing by Ben

I’m in the middle of editing my first novel after getting feedback from my hired editor, and in a quest for some major procrastination, I’ve decided to take a pit-stop and write this post. The project is to self-publish my first novel. The goal is to self-publish it with some degree of professionalism, not just

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Self-Publishing: Finding an Editor

January 29, 2014October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State', Self-Publishing by Ben

The first step in getting my first novel self-published was to find an editor to knock it into shape and make it half-readable and, hopefully, sellable. But how? I’ve never done this sort of thing. I searched the internet and got a kinda confused mess of all sorts, eventually narrowing it down to 3 really good

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Self-Publishing: Researching a To Do List

December 16, 2013October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State', Self-Publishing by Ben

The 1st draft of Blindsided is now finished and I need a break from it before going back in and tackling the 2nd draft, but I’m not going to sit around and download mountains of specialist porn, I’m going to enter the big bad world of self-publishing. My first novel, ‘Railroaded‘, has been submitted to

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How many submissions until you’re flogging a dead horse?

August 15, 2013October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State' by Ben

I’m trying to stay positive after another rejection but sometimes it’s like saying no to a tasty dessert or a beautiful ex that dumped you, you know you should walk away but it’s soooo hard. I’m getting close with ‘Railroaded‘. I’ve been sending it out to be ignored and rejected for nearly 5 years! (Christ!

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How Do You Find First/Beta Readers?

January 12, 2011October 3, 2019Posted in 'Broken Branches', 'In A Right State', Blog by Ben

I’m thinking ahead here but I’m going to be wanting some first readers in a few months (I’m pencilling in Easter) but where do they live? For my first novel, Railroaded, I printed out ten copies of the third draft and handed it out to people; My Mum, Dad, three friends, a daughter of a

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“Asphalt roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need asphalt roads.”

July 15, 2010October 18, 2019Posted in 'In A Right State' by Ben

I like it when I see a future idea I had being brought into some kind of reality. No ideas are original, so the idea of a road generating power via solar panels is not ground-breaking in itself but still, it means I’m not a dribbling idiot…which is always nice to confirm. I get ‘Popular

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