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Monthly archives: June 2017

author typing — Have you ever heard of this thing called an author platform? It is supposed to sell books, right. The dream of being an author is highly compelling for us writers. We spend hours and weeks and years writing our book. Finally, it is ready to go. There is just one […]

A comprehensive introduction to author platforms

28th June 2017 in Advice tagged Author / Author Platform / books / email list / fans / guide / list / writers by Matthew Brown

books — Yesterday I stumbled upon the following headline – “Dustbin man builds free library of thrown away books”. According to the BBC: A dustbin man in Bogota in Colombia, who never studied further than primary school, has gathered a library of more than 20,000 thrown away books. After a little […]

Dustbin man’s library of thrown away books

10th June 2017 in Love Books tagged books / free / library by Matthew Brown

Old Printing Press — When we started Author Buzz UK one of the topics that we knew we would have to address eventually was that of self-publishing. After trawling through hundreds of articles and adverts aimed at the would-be self-published author, we knew that this was more topic than we could cram into a single article.

Self-Publishing: Everything you need to know – part 1

9th June 2017 in Self-Publishing tagged publishing / self-publishing by Matthew Brown

Sir Terry Pratchett — Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels and is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Terry Pratchett, with more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, was the UK’s best-selling author […]

Honouring Sir Terry Pratchett

5th June 2017 in Site News tagged Author / beginnings / community / fans / Ook by Matthew Brown

British Pounds — Only 11.5% of Authors earn their income through writing alone. It is not easy to be a professional writer. With the pay gap in author earnings growing between the best sellers and the rest of us, being a professional writer is getting harder all the time. You should not believe everything […]

The shocking truth about author earnings

2nd June 2017 in Business tagged Author / earnings / income / money / writers by Matthew Brown