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The Short Version... Audio book: Really? To make an audio book you have to do a few things: I will provide a list of external references here, it represents pretty much the best that I've found on a budget so far. The microphone. There are…

Overview For Non-English Readers I know it's a bit presumptious that I have any readers, but just in case there are I have included a brief description of the UK education system. The first oddity is that private schools are referred to as Public schools,…

This is my first published novel. What if your nightmares were just a warning, and your everyday life was only the beginning? Following a mesmeric therapy session, Brian Slade, his friend Willow and his therapist Niamh uncover ancient memories that draw them into a covert…

The first dragon I remember was Puff the magic dragon. It's a song and it was on children's radio programs when I was a kid. Puff was a rascal of a dragon, friendly to children and loved games. He also loved a bit of chaos,…

Author's get stuck sometimes, just can't get a handle on things, just can't see the way forward in a story. Well let's face it, everybody gets stuck sometimes. It's that feeling of knowing what you have to do but not knowing where to start, not…

I have been going through a few things recently and it struck me that I take for granted all sorts of file types. They are file types that I have used for the last forty-odd years and I often forget that some people don't have…

Please Note: I include links to various sites that I reference. These are there just to help you if you're interested. At the time of writing these links were safe and working. The general consensus from published indie authors is that you get someone else…

A Brief History Of Copyright I've being doing a trawl about copyrighting a book. Anyone who's not newbie like me is probably well up to speed but I'm writing about it for my own sake. Copilot was my first port of call. It seems that…

I'm new to AI. This is likely old hat to most people, but I have started using Copilot in windows and Gemini on my phone. I start by asking if the AI knows about the subject at hand. Then I ask the more detailed question.

Grammar is one of those bug bears that we have to deal with as we write first draft and as we self-edit our copy. As a newbie and a self publisher then I have no funds to outsource grammar checking to an editor so I…