This is the first step on my six steps to relaunch a book. Because this is an experiment I’m using AI voices from Amazon. This is the quickest, and cheapest way to convert an existing book to an audio format. Fiction and business books do really well as audiobooks, travel…

Get your writing done and then edit! Do not start editing before you finish, as your creative mind is different from your editing mind! Even though you may be getting it edited by a professional, you must edit before you send it out. Use editing tools (free and paid ones)…

10 + Free Tools for Aspiring Bestselling Authors Plus What I Use I was seriously tempted to call this “The Dirty Dozen”, but even though we are easy with the phrase quick and dirty, I thought that this list might not be taken seriously by you. So today, I’m giving you that much scorned blog post called a “listicle”. …

Read these 10 Books about Ukraine Reading Books is the Answer — but what was the question? What is happening in Ukraine and don’t the Russians love their children too? Why are Russian citizens also objecting to the war, and was Ukraine a different country? If so why is the Virgin of Kyiv, that 11th century…

An Unwritten Legacy-2 Watch An Unwritten Legacy-2 via @adilovideoadilo.bigcommand.com An Anniversary of Loss I feel sorry for my brother, its his birthday on the 7th of February, and it is the Death anniversary of our Dad, barely two years after retiring from the Army, he sounded the retreat for the last time. …

The Cancel Culture strikes out Abide with Me For most of my remembered life, every last weekend in January, meant watching the Beating of the Retreat in New Delhi, when the massed bands of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, “beat the retreat” of the defence forces from Delhi to their various stations scattered around India. …

As a writer, your mental health is crucial — and yet it is so counterintuitive. You imagine that to be a writer you need to be chained to your desk, but nothing is further from the truth. Physical activity is vital for your mental health and for the brilliance of your…

Behind the scenes — January 2022 Last year I discovered that I love to snoop around and see what other authors are doing — I read their blogs, Medium or social media avidly. especially to see how they upskill. So I thought I should do my own ones as well! …

Transcript — Why Conferences are Great and not so great Hello and welcome to this replay of the talk which I gave at the Logan Writers Conference a couple of weeks ago. We had a few technical glitches preventing a livestream. And quite a few of you have asked for the recording because we couldn’t actually come out to the…