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…

Hi everyone,   Just to keep you in the loop, here is a link to the Reading Bud’s review for Kingdom of Nerada Isabella Airyfairyabelous & the Sleepy Dragon. It is the sweetest thing I’ve ever read. An enormous thank you to Book Afficianado Heena.   The Reading Bud: https://thereadingbud.com/2025/07/12/book-review-isabella-airyfairyabelous-the-sleepy-dragon-by-by-marie-lukic/