Matthew Brown

About Matthew Brown

Matthew is a writer, web dev, and geek from Kent (UK). He is the founder and current chair of Thanet Creative as well as head geek for Author Buzz. His ambitions include seeing a film or TV series based on something he wrote. Matt is also responsible for fixing stuff on AuthorBuzz.co.uk when it breaks.

Fireworks — As 2018 comes to an end, here are ten possible new year resolutions for authors to make. 1. Set realistic goals for yourself Realistic goals mean that you can sensibly hope to meet them. Meeting goals helps you feel accomplished and can fend off those feelings of imposter syndrome we […]

Ten new year’s resolutions for authors

31st December 2018 in Advice tagged 2019 / goals / ideas / new year by Matthew Brown

How and why to generate leads with your blog

28th December 2018 in Sell more books tagged Author Platform / blogging / leads / sales by Matthew Brown

As part of the changes we have been talking about on the dev blog, Author Buzz UK and all of your blogs, now have a free SSL certificate. You don’t have to do anything, it has all been done for you. All blogs have been switched over to use HTTPS […]

Now with free SSL

22nd December 2018 in Site News tagged free / HTTPS / news / SSL / update by Matthew Brown

blow your own trumpet — Today Author Buzz UK began the test rollout of the Gutenberg editor. You can try it right now on your Author Buzz blog. The next time you go to “new post” you will be greeted by the words: Welcome to the wonderful world of blocks! Start of the tour text […]

New visual editor for blogs

24th October 2018 in Site News tagged content / copy editing / Gutenberg / UI / update by Matthew Brown

money — There is a worrying trend in the UK where publishers have started to demand that authors hand over all moral rights to a work. Your moral rights include the right to be known as the author of your work. Writer Joanne Harris points out on her Tumblr blog that the […]

The worrying trend of selling your moral rights

7th August 2018 in Business tagged David Vaver / income / Joanne Harris / moral rights / Oxford University Press / Patsy Collins / publisher / rights / Tara Westgate / TI Media / Woman's Weekly by Matthew Brown

tiny man — You have heard it enough while you were writing – show, don’t tell – but did you know it applies to blogs as well? A mistake a lot of bloggers make, me included, is to tell readers what we want them to know. We do it even more if we […]

Authors when you blog, show, don’t tell

17th July 2018 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / show by Matthew Brown

reading books — Your book has just been published and now you face the question of how to get readers. We look at some of the ways authors get readers.

Seven secrets of how new books get readers

26th June 2018 in Sell more books tagged Author Platform / books / groups / press releases / readers / SEO / Twitter by Matthew Brown

friends — I figure that it is about time for me to talk about why Author Buzz UK exists and what I hope the site will do for myself and everyone who joins us here. History of Author Buzz UK I have owned the domain name (on and off). The first time […]

My Vision for Author Buzz UK

18th June 2018 in Author Buzz tagged about / beginnings / community / hello world / history by Matthew Brown

Back in April the BBC told us that some authors are going “audio only”. Is audio only publishing something more authors should do or is it just a fad? What is audio only publishing? Audio only is exactly what you think. Publishing only in audiobook format. Traditionally when we talk […]

Is it worth going audio only?

1st June 2018 in Business tagged audiobooks / Chris Fox / income / self-publishing by Matthew Brown

Two ways to get your blog listed on Author Buzz

21st April 2018 in Author Buzz tagged blogs / groups / links / RSS by Matthew Brown

While Author Buzz features a global activity page where you can catch up with the users and groups you have followed, you have a personal activity page too. while this is not exactly the worlds most exciting topic, I thought I’d write about it so you know the options you have […]