

Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


The World of Marketing: Your Secondary Marketing Tool
Your primary marketing tool is your work. Your work — whether that is one book, a series of books, or a set of short stories scattered in...


The World of Marketing: Your Primary Marketing Tool
What is your primary marketing tool? We’re looking at the Seven Circles of Marketing, which are summarised here: 1. Superfans 2. Fans 3....


The World of Marketing: Setting Up Your Stall
Imagine you’re an artisan, a wood carver, going to a town to sell some items you’ve crafted. It’s a well-known market town and has a huge...


Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...


The World of Marketing: The Seven Circles of Marketing
When writers put down their (often metaphorical) pens and start to look into the world of marketing, a glazed expression tends to appear...


Fictivity: The Power of Fiction to Haunt Us
As part of my Audience Location Service, I often ask authors to list five words which describe their own fiction. It’s an exercise...


Fictivity: To Be, Or Not To Be
We’ve probably all heard of binary code, the computer language of the two-valued ‘off and on’ through which even the most advanced...


Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...

