• Self-publish

    My writing & publishing journey this financial year

    Hi everyone, thank you for all your share your link and make money spam, but I need to go it alone as a sole trader for a little longer to claim any forthcoming success. Writing up a summary for my Marie Lukic sole trader should prove a novelty.  The most exciting event is certainly becoming an official publisher of my own novels, which is a breakthrough.  Attending Book Town also proved a wonderful experience. On the coal face, I connected with many potential customers and a few influential and intriguing authors. The crowning glory is that my Kingdom of Nerada novels have thus far received wonderful reviews. I need to…

  • Self-publish

    Oh POO! Writing, editing & self-publishing my Kingdom of Nerada series

    This morning reflection on my publishing experience flooded in. You know what it’s like when Ingram Spark prints a beautiful copy, and you read a perfect chapter you have written and suddenly there it is, a glaring error, like POO! popped into the middle of a sentence, a mighty shock!  In late 2024 I proudly walked around with this copy of my novel, as then unreleased, and hypothesised about how and why this unusual show-stopping-ugly-and-profoundly-disturbing-anomaly had popped into my otherwise perfect prose and capable, conscientious and highly skilled editing. POO symbolises the mighty trap for the unwary and inexperienced self-publisher. In the end I withheld the release for a couple…