Sam Russell

I’m twittering, and I know it

As suggested, by almost everyone I read who self-publishes and blogs, I bit the bullet and created a Twitter account.…
What? I’ve got to sell it?

The Eldest Daughter works in PR. The Brother asked what the ‘target sales’ for my book…
Turkey and track changes

I get over excited when a message from CreateSpace arrives. But the return of my first…
Judge a book by it’s cover

We all do, of course. I may have bypassed many good books because they didn’t look…
No one said there would be questions…

I don’t know what it is about questionnaires, but they strike me illiterate. Maybe it’s because…
Setting my manuscript free (or sending it off to school)

I did some more research, but Amazon CreateSpace was an easy choice for me. I felt…
Thank you family and friends (and indie bloggers who give advice so generously)

With the manuscript finished, I thought I had done the hard bit. But no one other…
When the doubts creep in

About five weeks in to my run of obsessive writing, I hit a wall. I didn’t…
Can I write a book?

This is how my journey began. Having recently given up my part time job (due to…