Martyn's blog

Ebook week's alive.  Reminds me of Brian Blessed in Flash Gordon,  with his famous exclamation at the durability of the epon...

The latest from Smashwords to authors, is sign up for Read an eBook week. Preparations are underway for the annual read an eBook...

March 2015, a little over a year ago I posted " A Cautionary Tale from Becca Mill s" which linked to Becca's own post at The A...

I wonder myself sometimes, most of the posts on this site, and perhaps many others are a link in a chain reaction, someone posts on the net...

E-Book sales fall after new Amazon Contracts; the article in the Wall Street Journal (and posted at The Passive Voice ) examines the recent...

Discussion ranges widely about changes in the landscape of publishing over the last decade, and the Passive Voice ran a couple of posts re...

A lot of the chatter lately has been about the pitfalls facing independent self publishers, but what about the positive aspects of the chal...

It popped up in a tweet by David Gaughran  and had me clicking the link to a jaw dropping story. The-active-voice  is the website of the ...

Couple of weeks ago before I got stuck into NaNoWriMo I was doing the rounds checking the links from cheekyseagull to Apple and the other ...

Amazon's much discussed letter to authors yesterday morning has received much comment for and against and probably been dissected mor...

The World Cup is well on its and Wimbledon is close to finding this  year's champion and to prove that great things come in threes.  Sm...

Alfred Burke was part of an Urban legend, engines retired from service and put into cold war storage, back up for when the worst case scena...

The big question when you put anything out into the open market, and probably the biggest conundrum facing any author, self-published or oth...

Online, All Locations/Items: Showing ads in eBooks (Fiction) Thriller - BookBarista  Iceline and Control Escape click on the ad for links t...

Science fiction adventure. When is a crime scene not a crime scene? When it hasn't happened yet, or has it or will it? Time travel and ...

A few days ago I wrote a review for a terrific thriller, Coincidence Theory by Steven Allinson, a fresh look at the stories of the Biblical ...

The old style Barbers with the traditional red and white pole outside the door, dark wood panelling stained with age and Brylcreem, and the...

The latest update for the Nanowrimo winner What You Ask For has just been uploaded at Smashwords.com. Check out my other books and enjoy ...

Time flies when your head's buried in the shifting sands of the internet. www.cheekyseagull.co.uk has just had an overhaul, not specif...

Smashwords: Apple iBookstore Sales Surge Over Christmas Holiday  re posted from Smashwords.blog. As a Smashwords author with books on Appl...