The Creative Writing Workbook

I have always written. As a kid I would write daft stories and rhymes and got one on Australia published when I was 11 and entered a competition. Experience of Writing was part of my first degree and I did a lot more writing then and had a short story published in Wild Thyme Writer's Group booklet, that was early 2002.

For the past seven years, aside from supervising postgrad students at Derby University, I have been blogging and earning some income with freelance writing. I had a Kindle for my last birthday in March and that decided me to join the growing ranks of indie authors. My first book, which is the title of this post, The Creative Writing Workbook  was published on the 27th April and offered for free download for a few days.

 Around 1400 people downloaded the book and since then I have even had a few sales and a couple of great reviews. I also had a really lovely email from a girl called Hannah in the United States who told me tha reading my book got her writing again - even better than the few sales I've had so far.