SUSAN PRICE: Kindle and Beyond!
Hello, and welcome to my first blog for Kindle Authors UK, something I’m very excited to be part of. I can publish a book from my sofa! Have, in fact, already published two – Overheard In A Graveyard and The Ghost Drum . It feels a bit like science-fiction. I started young – I was 16 when my Dad signed the contract, with Faber and Faber, for my first book, The Devil’s Piper . (I was too young to sign a legally binding document.) The photo’s of me when I was about that age. In those days I hammered out books on an old iron typewriter, and it was hard work. I could never type a page without making a mistake, I hated changing ribbons, and figuring out word-count was too much for my unmathematical brain. In the late 80s I started hearing about computers but wasn’t too interested – they seemed expensive, and I didn’t want the bother of having to learn to use one. Then a friend showed me how fast his computer could print off documents and I imm...