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This post was originally supposed to be entitled ‘10 things to do before NaNoWriMo’ but due to my tendency to procrastinate and also to denial on my part about the speed with which September would give way to October and the suddenness with which October would then reach its final stages, I am running a bit late with my list. 1. Get the boring committee stuff out of the way - minutes and meeting arrangements, website content and the computer set up I have promised to do. All delayed by a personality clash between two adults who should have known better [sigh], causing multiple extra meetings and anguished phone calls. 2. Arrange for allegedly minor car problem to be fixed, and check MOT test date - in a previous November I had to write a few hundred words of the novel on my Kindle Fire while waiting at Kwikfit. I haven’t done either of these things, preferring to use the traditional approach of waking up in the night in a panic because I don’t know when last year's MOT c...

I’ve been publishing to Kindle since March 2011, with a reasonable amount of success, and with great satisfaction. Like many others before me I’d come to the conclusion I was flogging a dead horse (excuse the cliché but that’s the way my mind works in the blogosphere), by pursuing a traditional deal with a traditional publisher. Been there, done that, worn the teeshirt, I thought, before embarking wholeheartedly into the wonders of the electronic world and eBooks. So now I’ve been adventuring in the electronic world for all of 20 months, what on earth would induce me to dip my toes back into the print world? Don’t worry, folks, my original decision stands – I’m done with the traditional route to publish my books. However, I’m often asked to talk to groups, library, women’s, church, ad infinitum. Now one thing that arises every time I give a talk is ‘Where can we get the paperback?’ And I always have to say, there is no paperback, haven’t you thought about getting an eReade...