by David West | Aug 20, 2022 | News
In my most recent zoom meeting with my publicist Brian, he encouraged me to arrange talks and book signings with bookstores. I told him I wasn’t sure that would work, as I am solely published via KDP. It seems that bookstores like Waterstones are offering my book on...
by David West | Aug 18, 2022 | News
In my last post I described moving our boat to her new home on the River Dart. Agatha Christie’s home Greenway is on the River Dart. It’s a National Trust property, well worth a visit. It has been a setting in some of the TV adaptations of her novels. Christie was...
by David West | Aug 17, 2022 | News
When I was young I wanted to be a pilot. I’ve blogged about my favourite book, The Last Enemy, by Richard Hillary. Hillary was a spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain, and had joined the University Air Squadron at Oxford. When I went up to Oxford, I also tried to...
by David West | Aug 16, 2022 | News
Mentions are great! I recently posted about social media. I will work on Brian’s tips for boosting my social media following, but he also wants me to post every day. I’ve got a busy few days coming up, so I want to put another draft post in the bag. Claire and I were...
by David West | Aug 15, 2022 | News
How far should a writer go with historical accuracy? I recently blogged about social media. In my research for growing my social media following I read some posts on the Historical Novel Society facebook page. They got me thinking. The thread I read was about...
by David West | Aug 14, 2022 | News
I recently had a meeting with Tom at DigiPrint to discuss website improvements. One of my sessions with my book publicist Brian, had been to look at my website and see how it could be improved. Brian had found a number of things that were easy to fix. There was one...
