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Clean Reader

Posted onMarch 25, 2015June 10, 2020Leave a comment

I’ve just heard about “Clean Reader” today. I do hope they are not selling any of my books, because there won’t be an awful lot left after Clean Reader has filtered out all the “bad” stuff. Here’s Joanne Harris’s response to an e-mail they sent her after she made her feelings about the app very Read More …

Fake Social Media in eBooks

If you read yesterday’s post, you’ll know that my current goal to do a full read through/edit of the first draft of The Truths We Live. As part of this one thing I’m doing is adding fake tweets and text messages to the manuscript. These will carry through into the eBook and while it will make the eBook file larger to do this, I hope it will add to the experience of reading it.

Setting Goals

I don’t deadlines when it comes to my writing—I get enough of deadlines at work, I don’t need them in an activity that’s supposed to be a hobby.
But I am happy to set goals. Goals aren’t deadlines. Deadlines get you in to trouble if you miss them. Goals… Not so much.