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Last day of the year!

Posted on December 31, 2019 by Susannah J. Bell

Writers don’t pat themselves on the back often enough, so I thought today, being the last day of the year, would be a good day to look back and see what I’ve accomplished.  If anything! I completely overhauled my website, … Continue reading →

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The Substantials

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Susannah J. Bell

It was only after I started writing the Exodus Sequence series that I discovered that collections of connected short stories were already in existence.  Even Wikipedia has a page on this, calling them a short story cycle.  My reason for … Continue reading →

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KDP Paperback Problems Part Two

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Susannah J. Bell

KEEP LINES TOGETHER! Remember that.  It’ll come in handy later. In my last post I complained bitterly about the new KDP template for a book, highlighting three immediate problems:  American spelling (disaster when you write in anything else);  bizarre circles … Continue reading →

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The Fleet Quintet is now the Free Quintet

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Susannah J. Bell

I’m giving away the first four books I ever published free for the whole of July.  As this is a Smashwords campaign, it means the books can be downloaded onto any device, which is nice.  No faffing about there, then! … Continue reading →

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Please let me know what you think of the blurb for my new book

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Susannah J. Bell

Billions of years ago, before the artificial universe, there was the Fleet.  Fleet personnel number 50 – mostly known as Dett – sees a spacial dissociation in Fleet space and realises the control sector is broken. She interacts violently with … Continue reading →

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Accidently got my new book published on Super Thursday!

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

I wasn’t trying to get V.GOMENZI published on Super Thursday – I didn’t even know the date!  I had dimly thought about it, but then decided it was a marketing gimmick that wouldn’t do me any favours.  After all, I’m … Continue reading →

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What do you do when you realise you are a terrible writer

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

Give up?  Start over?  Get a job stacking shelves in some shitty supermarket?  Turn into the dull, grey, dying-inside person you’re afraid of? I’ve spent all summer editing.  Both the third and fourth Fleet Quintet novels were already written but … Continue reading →

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Transferring Transference

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Susannah J. Bell

I’m going completely nuts trying to turn Transference into a paperback.  These are the times when I wish I had VAST gobs of capital and could just get someone else to do it for me.  It’s not the mechanics (spending … Continue reading →

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DIY or die

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

I received a proof this week of “Ultra” with its beautiful blue cover.  It took me several days to realise what was wrong with it:  no page numbers, 1.5 line spacing instead of single line spacing, paragraph gaps too small, … Continue reading →

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