PREVIEW: A Swing at Love

A Swing at Love will be out next week (on Friday 3 August 2018). Here’s a preview. Enjoy! A Swing at Love © Harper & Caroline Bliss CHAPTER ONE Diane’s ankle twisted as the heel of her shoe caught in between two cobbles. She steadied herself on a parked car and gave her foot a tentative turn […]

Mrs Bliss: Ladylit’s Olympics

Recently I was listening to Joanna Penn’s podcast The Creative Penn and she talked about measuring your life in Olympic periods, how she looks back at how her life has changed and what she achieved in cycles of four years. I thought this might be an interesting exercise to do for Ladylit as well. 2008 Beijing […]

Mrs Bliss: BookBub

It should be apparent to anyone following this blog that a weekly post is probably too much to ask, so I shall try to make this a bi- or tri-weekly occurrence. Let’s see how that goes. This week, I would like to write about BookBub and how it can be a very powerful advertising tool […]

Mrs Bliss: Print is not dead, hurray!

Hi, remember me? I started this blog a couple of months ago, full of ambition to keep it updated on a weekly basis. And now it’s been two months since the last post. Let’s attribute this delay to travelling, moving office, book launches, taking courses. Definitely not to fear of the blank page, or even […]

Mrs Bliss: Work-life balance

This post is less publishing related and more general and personal than the previous ones, I apologise to anyone who was hoping for some publishing wisdom. However I think it’s an important topic for any self-employed person, including in the publishing business, so here goes. Questions we’re asked often are “How do you find a […]

Mrs Bliss: How we keep learning in order to grow

In this week’s episode of Harper Bliss & Her Mrs. we talked about the most important tools and software we use for writing and publishing. Something we did not get into, but is a big part of what we do every day, is our constant endeavour to keep learning and educating ourselves on new developments […]

Mrs Bliss: KDP Select

A hot topic in indie publishing is Amazon’s KDP Select program and the frequent changes to it. For people who don’t know what KDP Select is, here is the short explanation: books enrolled in KDP Select are available to download for free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers, but Amazon requires them to be exclusive to Amazon, […]

Mrs Bliss: A brief history of Ladylit

Yay, my wife has finally decided to come out of the closet! I’ll leave the explanation to her, but we both hope this becomes a useful weekly blog for aspiring authors and readers alike. <Harper out> — Spring is the season for new beginnings and so I have decided to dip my toe in the […]