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Review of 2009- my year as a POD published author

Posted by: allanmayer on: December 21, 2009

At the end of 2008, after years of rejection letters from agents and publishers, I decided to publish my novel, ‘Tasting the Wind’ in a ‘Print on Demand’ (POD) format.
POD is not to be confused with self publishing. If I had self-published there would have been a lot more donkey work- buying my own ISBN, [...]

I’ve not been able to spend much time blogging recently. In the real world I manage a service for people with profound learning disabilities and am a foster carer. Regardless of how ‘worthy’ that all sounds, I’m actually more of a Homer Simpson than a Ned Flanders, and the idea of lying in a hammock [...]

Free Book Marketing e-books

Posted by: allanmayer on: June 28, 2009

I’ve been visiting so many different writing websites this year that I haven’t had time to return to many of them.
Tonight I noticed that someone had come to my blog via Writers’ News. Following the link back revealed a comment on my thread from February, with the following link, where you can find a load [...]


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  • To see my 2009 review of the ups and downs of being a POD published author. Go to: http://allanmayer.wordpress.com/ 6 days ago
  • would any kind people out there like to add to the tags for 'Tasting the Wind' on Amazon? (I could be above Dan Brown in thrillers!) 1 week ago
  • Just found that my book is number one on Amazon.com in books tagged 'Learning disabilities' and it's got 41 thriller tags 1 week ago