A couple of days ago I got an email from someone offering to pay me money to write blog posts for commercial products. The blog posts would appear on my blog, here, so effectively I would be being paid to endorse stuff ‘within my vertical’, as the email sender put it. I can only guess …
I think it’s fair to say that I was quick to embrace the possibilities of the internet for promoting my books. I first took up blogging in 2005, ahead of the publication of my first novel, Taking Comfort. In those days, my blog was called ‘Roger’s Plog’ – plog being an unashamed combination of blog …
I admit it, I’ve been neglecting my blog. I could say that it’s because I’ve been busy with other things. Getting started on a new novel. Kids off for half term. A clutch of MA novels to read, assess and mark. A workshop to prepare. The sequel to The Exsanguinist to write. Tax return to …