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Drowning in a sea of Kindle

Drowning in a sea of Kindle

Tim Adler talks about what made him become a writer, and why he went down the indie publishing route “…just as a paroxysm of nausea swept over him,” I finished, looking up from my exercise book. My schoolmates looked bored, and somebody flicked a chewed-over paper...
Productivity hacks: slow and low that is the tempo

Productivity hacks: slow and low that is the tempo

Productivity hacks have become the in thing in self-publishing, with gurus offering to boost your daily word count, says Tim Adler Over the past few weeks, I have been listening to a lot of self-publishing podcasts from Joanna Penn’s The Creative Penn to Rocking...
Why Urbane Publications is the future of publishing

Why Urbane Publications is the future of publishing

Or how the publishing world has changed beyond all recognition. Tim Adler explains why Urbane represents a new business paradigm for authors and publishers This week I signed a paperback publishing deal with Urbane Publications, an independent publisher which launched...

Mindfuck movies are my favourite sub-genre

*WARNING* *contains spoilers* The moment in The Truman Show when Jim Carrey’s boat bumps up against a soundstage and he realises that he’s in a TV set. When Michael Douglas touches a price tag hanging from a lampshade in his girlfriend’s apartment in...
Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place

Readers of Slow Bleed will know that Dr Jemma Sands flees the police through the Gorges du Verdon, one of Europe’s mightiest canyons. This month I revisited the canyon to see if I could put myself through Jemma’s endurance test. Driving upwards through the Gorges du...