A reassuring guide to self publishing
A basic, friendly guide for PC users working with Word that tells writers how to self publish in the simplest, cheapest way possible. It’s for people who sometimes struggle with their computer, and don’t have a limitless budget to spend on professional services to get their book published. The self-publishing process isn’t hard but it can be intimidating the first time, so this guide takes writers through every step explaining what to do.
It covers the legal requirements of mandatory deposit in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. There are tips on pricing and promotion, bar codes and taxation, ISBNs, and all those behind-the-scenes elements that go into publishing a book.
17x25cm, 67 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. ISBN for NZ edition 978-0-9922451-0-8
It covers the legal requirements of mandatory deposit in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. There are tips on pricing and promotion, bar codes and taxation, ISBNs, and all those behind-the-scenes elements that go into publishing a book.
17x25cm, 67 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. ISBN for NZ edition 978-0-9922451-0-8
Sunstrike: The Journey Home
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When a massive solar storm obliterates earth’s
technology, carefree young Bradley Brown finds himself stranded at an Indonesian
holiday resort far from home. He faces a long and perilous journey back to New
Zealand and his widowed mother Averie, encountering storms, dangerous wildlife, and
others seeking to profit from unwary travellers.
Faced with destruction, deception and death on his travels, he grows up fast. http://tinyurl.com/JourneyHomeKindle CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/4921599 http://tinyurl.com/BevonAmazon Authors rise or fall on reviews of their books, so please show a little love and leave a brief review on Smashwords (if you buy it there), or Amazon (wherever you buy it from). Just 20 words and a few stars will help enormously! |
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When a massive solar storm sends a pulse of electro-magnetic energy towards the earth, the world's electricity supply is destroyed. The damage is so widespread that repair will take decades. People everywhere struggle with the loss of technology, transport, communications, and the usual infrastructure for supplying food and water.
In the silent suburbs of Auckland, Averie Brown finds the disaster shakes her out of her rut as she learns new skills to survive. After her previous uneventful life, still mourning the loss of her husband and missing her absent son Bradley, she finds the new challenge a welcome adventure as members of her neighbourhood rally to support each other against the fear of a cold and hungry winter. But the teenage waif she takes under her wing is not all he seems. Averie moves to a small rural community where too many elderly residents start to die, so in the absence of law enforcement and forensic technology she is forced to investigate the deaths herself. Kindle edition http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F1PTK46 ebook http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/342212 Print edition buy in NZ from www.letsbuybooks.weebly.com Also in Large Print edition worldwide via Amazon https://www.createspace.com/4383215 |
Murder in the Second Row
"Wonderfully invigorating read. Raunchy, funny and lovable characters in a great story. If it's ever made into a film I want to be in it!" John Nettles - Midsomer Murders
"Robitai has done a tremendous job with her setting here, really bringing to life a historic theatre with all its creaks and ghosts and the amateur dramatic society dedicated to keeping the building and its purpose alive. By the end of the novel I was feeling terribly guilty for not supporting my own local theatres more in recent years as I too have spent many happy hours at such places in the past and I liked the way the novel demonstrated the cultural value of such buildings.
There’s also a delightful cast of characters in this classic whodunnit. Refreshingly our leading heroine is not considered a suspect (well only for a moment) and becomes a conduit of sorts to the police investigation, which she doesn’t mind at all given that Jack Matherson, the detective in charge of the case, is attractive and funny. The pool of possible culprits is extensive and their personal stories are nicely varied."
Review by Bernadette in Reactions to Reading.
Print copies https://www.createspace.com/3778917 ebook https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17530
or buy in NZ from www.letsbuybooks.weebly.com
Also in Large Print edition worldwide via Amazon https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3884827
Authors rise or fall on reviews of their books, so please show a little love and leave a brief review on Smashwords (if you buy it there), or Amazon (wherever you buy it from). Just 20 words and a few stars will help enormously!
"Robitai has done a tremendous job with her setting here, really bringing to life a historic theatre with all its creaks and ghosts and the amateur dramatic society dedicated to keeping the building and its purpose alive. By the end of the novel I was feeling terribly guilty for not supporting my own local theatres more in recent years as I too have spent many happy hours at such places in the past and I liked the way the novel demonstrated the cultural value of such buildings.
There’s also a delightful cast of characters in this classic whodunnit. Refreshingly our leading heroine is not considered a suspect (well only for a moment) and becomes a conduit of sorts to the police investigation, which she doesn’t mind at all given that Jack Matherson, the detective in charge of the case, is attractive and funny. The pool of possible culprits is extensive and their personal stories are nicely varied."
Review by Bernadette in Reactions to Reading.
Print copies https://www.createspace.com/3778917 ebook https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17530
or buy in NZ from www.letsbuybooks.weebly.com
Also in Large Print edition worldwide via Amazon https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3884827
Authors rise or fall on reviews of their books, so please show a little love and leave a brief review on Smashwords (if you buy it there), or Amazon (wherever you buy it from). Just 20 words and a few stars will help enormously!
Body on the Stage
Dennis Dempster is fat, lonely, and dissatisfied with his life, but things are about to change. He joins a theatre group that’s staging a production of Ladies Night, full of male strippers, muscles and buff bodies. Suddenly fitness becomes a new option. In the course of his transformation he finds new friends, new purpose and a new love. And then he finds a dead body.
Join your favourite characters back in the Regent Theatre with this second story in the Theatre Mystery series. Jessica and Gazza are on hand to guide newcomer Dennis Dempster around the theatre, but he’s in even more foreign territory when he gets to the gym. Lucky he has Cathy, the gym owner, on hand to look after him.
The NZ print edition is available through www.letsbuybooks.weebly.com, and the ebook editions are live on Amazon Kindle http://tinyurl.com/BodyonStage and Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/156203 . Large print edition at https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3901757
Join your favourite characters back in the Regent Theatre with this second story in the Theatre Mystery series. Jessica and Gazza are on hand to guide newcomer Dennis Dempster around the theatre, but he’s in even more foreign territory when he gets to the gym. Lucky he has Cathy, the gym owner, on hand to look after him.
The NZ print edition is available through www.letsbuybooks.weebly.com, and the ebook editions are live on Amazon Kindle http://tinyurl.com/BodyonStage and Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/156203 . Large print edition at https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3901757
Eye for an Eye - standalone thriller
If you saw that a crook had stolen from your family and got away with it, wouldn't you want to do something? Your father is dead, and you see the crook living a life of shameless luxury on his money. Wouldn't you track him down to exact revenge? Robyn Taylor would, and she's not a woman you want to mess with. She might come from a quiet New Zealand backwater, but she can handle herself on the streets of Toronto. Until things turn really nasty.
Available in print and ebook format on Amazon
Order print copies here http://tinyurl.com/EyeforanEyethriller
Large print edition https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3922457
Available in print and ebook format on Amazon
Order print copies here http://tinyurl.com/EyeforanEyethriller
Large print edition https://tsw.createspace.com/title/3922457