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Portland Jones
- May 7
- 3 min
No Bones About It
by B Williams and J J White Charlie is timid. Yes, she's a psychic, and 'a dang good one', but we get the impression she suffers anxiety...
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Portland Jones
- May 2
- 4 min
Vampire The Begotten by Dayna Ward
(The Begotten Vampire series book 1) "If you loved the Twilight Saga, you will hate my books." This is what Dayna Ward says of Vampire...
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Portland Jones
- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
Author life - checking you can actually say that
My next novel, The Dollmaker’s Story, is coming along nicely. I have the plot worked out, at least to a certain extent. I’m not a plotter...
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Portland Jones
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
Author life - what's kept me away from my desk this week?
So what has kept me away from my desk recently? The bad: an abscess that made me look like hamster with stuffed cheeks led to a trip to...
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Portland Jones
- Jun 9, 2021
- 1 min
Author life - those little problems
I think I may have told you that I have a problem with memory following a stroke. Usually this means I might forget a character’s name,...
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Portland Jones
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
So I've published my first novel. What next?
Holding that copy of my book in my hands was a fantastic experience. The Face in the Bathroom Floor had finally come to life. Watching...
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Portland Jones
- Apr 20, 2021
- 2 min
Good reviews - a fantastic feeling
It has been twenty days since my last sale, seventeen days since my last Kindle page read. This could have been a very depressing time,...
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Portland Jones
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
So what exactly does Facebook advertising involve?
I had never done it before – Facebook advertising that is. This is becoming a familiar refrain, having to do things I had never given any...
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Portland Jones
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
Introducing my baby to the world
I have to confess I made a bit of a mistake when putting my book up on Amazon. The plan had been to make both the eBook and the paperback...
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Portland Jones
- Mar 10, 2021
- 2 min
I've published a book. What next?
So, having no real idea of how to market my book, and no real budget to do it with, I fell back on Facebook, a place I felt comfortable...
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Portland Jones
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
The first book
It seems like I’ve been writing this book forever. Life has a nasty habit of getting in the way of writing. It throws stuff at you till...
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