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Reaching the Finish Line

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 5 May 2019 by Pam6 September 2019

For too long I’ve been quiet but nevertheless I’ve been busy. After overcoming some last minute technical hitches, I finally published my novel, The Reluctant Hero, on both the Kindle and Kobo reading platforms a few days ago. Countless revisions … Continue reading →

Posted in Getting Published, Work In Progress | Tagged ebooks, My goals, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Slogging to the Finish Line

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 8 February 2018 by Pam31 October 2018

A while ago I was asked to sponsor a family friend who was in training to ride from London to Brighton for a very worthy cause, Myeloma UK. I was very glad to do so, and followed her progress as … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Self Publishing, Website Development, Work In Progress | Tagged editing, My goals, progress, self publishing, website maintenance, wip

Learning Curves

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 11 April 2017 by Pam11 April 2017

Funny how you can read the same thing over and over again, re-edit it for the umpteenth time and suddenly have an epiphany – well, fancy term for something that happened when the latest text-to-read runthrough reached a particular conversation. … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Work In Progress, Writing Challenges | Tagged Competitions, editing, My goals, NaNoWriMo, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Pushing Through

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 19 February 2017 by Pam12 March 2017

Some progress over the last week or so. I completed the read-through to the end of the novel and embarked on creation of the fourth ebook version for a final read-through before approaching pro editors. I used the process I … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Work In Progress | Tagged ebooks, editing, My goals, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Catching up is hard to do

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 13 December 2016 by Pam13 December 2016

Do you know that feeling when there are too many things to do and not enough hours in the day? Yep, that’s been the trouble here, for the last few months in particular, hence no posting on this blog, though … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Work In Progress, Writing Challenges | Tagged ebooks, editing, My goals, NaNoWriMo, progress, ROW80, self publishing, social media, wip

Onward and Upward

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 6 September 2016 by Pam13 December 2016

Since the last post I’ve been busy, so busy I’ve had no time to blog about what I’ve been doing. First off, I completed CampNaNo well ahead of the target which I had revised a couple of times but couldn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Work In Progress, Writing Challenges | Tagged ebooks, editing, Microsoft Word, My goals, NaNoWriMo, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Lessons in Line Editing Part 2

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 23 June 2016 by Pam23 June 2016

Since my previous update, I’ve continued using the text-to-speech method of editing and I’m finding it more and more valuable.  It has shown up three typos so far, but its main use as before is in making it obvious where … Continue reading →

Posted in Self Publishing, Work In Progress, Writing Challenges | Tagged editing, My goals, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Plea to the Developer of Scrivener for Windows

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 23 June 2016 by Pam23 June 2016

I was recently asked by Eden Mabee, in a comment on my recent progress, what I was referring to when I said I had been disappointed to discover issues caused by missing features when compiling in Scrivener for Windows; features … Continue reading →

Posted in Formatting, Self Publishing, Work In Progress | Tagged ebooks, Microsoft Word, Print on Demand, Scrivener, self publishing

Lessons in Line Editing

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 14 June 2016 by Pam23 June 2016

This account of my writing progress has slipped for a while, mainly because I’ve been so busy writing and also learning how to create ebooks! The last time I blogged, I had just entered a couple of short story comps.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Self Publishing, Work In Progress, Writing Challenges | Tagged editing, My goals, progress, ROW80, self publishing, wip

Must Try Harder….

Pam Baddeley, Writer Posted on 8 January 2016 by Pam12 February 2016

… or something.  Despite best intentions, I have not managed to blog for nearly six months (groan) after two posts in July, one of which represented a lot of research into book covers that I thought people would find useful, … Continue reading →

Posted in Discoverability, Marketing and Promotion, Self Publishing, Work In Progress | Tagged discoverability, My goals, NaNoWriMo, progress, ROW80, self publishing

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