Recently I was lucky enough to be invited by Lisa Ferland to join her PageStarter podcast. It’s a great podcast designed to give writers inspiration. Lisa and I talked about my journey to become a bestselling author, how important ‘connectedness’...
Category: Info for authors
Posts that might be of interest to other authors.
Cover reveal for ‘An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World’
I have finally found a new cover for ‘An Olive Grove at the Edge of the World’ – the international edition of ‘Moon Over Martinborough.’ And it’s fantastic. The tools I used to find it were 99designs and PickFu. First, I...
‘Moon’ goes international – under a new title
Wisteria after the rain Four years ago, Random House New Zealand published my book, ‘Moon Over Martinborough: How an American city boy became a Kiwi farmer.’ Time flies! The print and ebook rights have now reverted back to me, and...
4 author blogging lessons from my web stats
Last week I spoke to some creative writing students about how authors can use social media to promote their work. Eventually one student asked me the inevitable question, “How many people read your blog?” I get asked this a lot,...
The making of a book trailer
Sometimes the right people land on your front door at just the right time. That’s what happened when I was thinking about a book trailer and two fabulous HelpX volunteers came to stay with us: Emilie and Jeremie. I didn’t...
Publisher comes to visit
My publisher was coming to lunch, and I was nervous. She wanted to see the property and meet CJ and me, but she wanted something else as well. She wanted to talk to CJ about changing his name. What if...
Author photos in the olive grove
The man on my front deck looked like he had teleported through a time machine, straight out of the 1960s. He was wearing dark sunglasses with octagonal, gold wire frames. His sideburns were long. “You must be Jared,” he said,...
Never give up: From blog to book
“I’m giving up,” I said. “‘Moon over Martinborough’ is never going to be a book.” Ever since I’d started this blog I’d wanted to turn it into a book, but I was losing hope. “Maybe you shouldn’t give up just...