Authors Electric

Every Electric Author should be publishing paperbacks with Create s pace. I know a lot of us already are - and although they won't need this blog, they might chip in, correct me where I'm wrong, add a few hints and wrinkles of their own.           I don't claim any great expertise - what I know I've learned by having a go, failing and failing better. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that I am making some very obvious mistakes. My hope for this post is simply that it will make the process seem more familiar for those who haven't used Createspace before and so take some of the fear out of it.           Why should we all be publishing with Createspace? Well, I'll take last month, March, as an example. It wasn't my best sales month. During March, I sold 6 Kindle books in total, in all markets, though several more of my books were read for free (with Amazon making a small payment to me fr...

I’m lucky in that I have two brothers, Andrew and Adam, who are both talented artists. Andrew Price, designs most of my indie-covers.           Here's a round-up of PriceClan projects just now.           We've re-issued my successful picture book, The Runaway Chapati . As with The Wolf’s Footprint , people (especially teachers) were forever asking me where they could get copies.           ‘Chapati’ is The Gingerbread Man with added spice. I asked my brother, Adam Price, if he’d like to illustrate a new edition. And here it is.           I asked Adam to make the pictures vivid, and he drew inspiration from his love of India and its colours. The chapatti’s nemesis is a tiger, not a fox — and here is a sketch for Adam’s wonderful, springy tiger.          ...