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Posted on 13 January 2016 09:26
If you’ve read and done the previous two posts you will now
be in possession of three files: .pdf; .mobi; .epub. Next you design your
cover. What sort of cover you make depends on your individual preference. I
like dark/light relatively non-busy covers. On Kindle all you get is a small
avatar view of the cover, so why waste time putting a lot of writing in small
print that no one can read? That’s up to you though. The final print-ready
cover is a bit different though I think the less you put on the cover, the more
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Posted on 07 January 2016 13:48
This post is intended to allow you to produce nice, clean
files, ready for uploading to your publishing source.
Firstly, write a book. Really, write your novel. Put it away
for a few weeks. Then edit it on-screen. Then print it out and go through it
with a red felt-tip and correct and re-write. It’s because you can’t afford to
have any typos or clumsy sentences. When you’re certain you’ve licked it – ask a
friend to read it. No friends? Pay someone to read it. The publishing arm I use
comes up with ‘We have found x typographical errors as follows:’ then they
shred your editing for you. |
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Fredrik Nath: Posted on 05 January 2016 07:03
When my publisher told me in December he wasn't going to publish any
more books for the time being, it hit me hard. We'd published the first
book of a quadrilogy calledAMULET. I had four more books written and ready to
go - all dressed up and nowhere to go! To cap it all he was poised to publishGaldir IVthe next instalment of theGaldir series. I had one more French resistance
novel written as well.
I tried
poking a few agents and publishers but despite my having sold 30,000 copies of
the Cyclist and plenty more of the Roman books, no one showed interest. |
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Posted on 30 November 2015 22:52
So, haven’t written much for a long time. Been busy – still
busy but felt I should comment on the coming junior doctor’s strike. Also want
to plug my book THE PROMISE.
Why would any junior doctor want to take industrial action?
It’s simple. All of them have spent five years qualifying as doctors – they had
to get straight ‘A’s’ at A-level to get into medical school. In the last two
years all their friends are earning because most other degrees require only
three years of study. Then they have to do a compulsory year working in
hospital for a pittance to get GMC registered. |
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Posted on 16 August 2015 08:03
How can a government get facts
and figures so wrong?
Fact: the NHS has functioned
all the way through because of good will. Even stuffy consultants give
everything they can to the NHS. The patient alwys comes first and many
hard-pressed consultants work long hours and come in to the hospital when they
are not on call – they are available 24/7.
I’m on call this weekend. At a
moment’s notice from Friday morning to Monday at 9 a.m. I can be called in for
an emergency operation or even to assess a patient. |
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Posted on 20 March 2014 07:56
What does the coalition think they are doing? I thought when I saw the campaign poster they were joking.A penny off beer and Bingo. Helping hard-working people to do what they enjoy??? The concept is so insulting to the average working man in Britain the mind boggles. I hadn't realised how out of touch and unintelligent the conservatives had become until I saw that. To label working class people in that way is not only an insult, it's a way of underestimating their intelligence. I can't see how insulting the electorate will help win an election. |
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Posted on 10 January 2014 11:47
Well looks like a
bleak culinary Christmas for many with the current economic climate.
It’s going to be cold and a lot of people will be tightening their
belts. Maybe that’s what makes the press so hungry. They’re after
copy and if they can pull someone down they will – like hungry
dogs. They like nothing better than to vilify a celebrity or two
especially at this time of the year. But you know, it’s true –
the higher the monkey climbs the tree the more of his genitals you
can see. Poor old Nigella –
there she is allegedly sniffing snow in the loo and emerging before
the cameras with pupils constricted and a handful of lettuce. |
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Posted on 29 May 2013 06:47
Every now and again I come across a web advertisement stating something like the above title. If you're reading this for a quick fix for your great gut I'm afraid you may be disappointed. The advertisements I'm referring to direct you to a site where you can buy some sort of 'berry' and other 'medications' and as far as I can see there is neither truth nor sense in any of that stuff. It's a scam. Why do I say that? Well it's because when it comes down to it you get what you work for in this life. |
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Posted on 24 May 2013 07:01
Hunt, the Health Minister is now speaking out and proclaiming from the rooftops that GP’s should now shoulder the burden of out-of-hours patient care. Unusually, he’s talking a little sense in amongst the rhetoric and garbage we usually hear from politicians. In 2004, the Labour government in a bid to ruin doctors’status forced an hours-based contract on GPs and hospital consultants. We didn’t like it because we knew it made us into clocking in and clocking out ‘health-care workers’. That was what they wanted. |
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Posted on 21 May 2013 16:31
I’ve just startedDan Brown’s ‘Inferno’. I’ve seen the previous Dan brown movies but never read his books. I tried once with the first one but found I disliked the writing style so much I never finished the book. This time because of the great accolades the book has received, I became curious to see if his style of writing might have changed. Afraid I still don’t like the writing. It makes my fingers itch to edit – I could cut maybe half the book and not lose a second of the action. |
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