Kick start your side hustles with a challenge or two! — I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get a little bit bored with doing the same thing over and over. It’s difficult to find the motivation to do it every day. Especially when it comes to side hustles, which, let’s face it, often mean doing iterations of the exact…

The stuff you didn’t know you needed to know about me — This is my about me page. In case you needed to know the random odd bits. Who wants to know the essentials? Boring! Let’s do the Unessentials! My name is Sarah and I live in the UK, in the North of England.

What have I been writing about recently? MARCH 2023 Tadah! An update! This is the post that I always forget to update…but no longer! Since I’ve only written a few posts in 2023 so far I thought I’d include them all here. After a few months away from the keyboard at the…

Public lending rights An often-overlooked way you can make up to an extra £6,600 a year with your published book in the UK is through Public Lending Rights. That means you get paid when people borrow your book from public libraries! …

Basically, plan ahead to get ahead and all that! — What is Q2? It is the second quarter of the year — April, May and June. Knowing what events are upcoming can help you to plan your time and your content. …

Simple ways to market your book It’s finally finished! Congratulations! You’ve worked hard writing your book and now, it’s done at last! You’ve self-published it. Or, maybe you have a contract with a traditional publisher. Either way, you’re ready for the real work to begin — Marketing. Promoting a book…

Attract those readers and then keep them reading to the end! — What is a read ratio, and why does it matter? A read ratio here on Medium is how many people read your story to the end. As opposed to views which means people only spent a few seconds glancing at it. Read ratios matters because of a few reasons: If…

Super simple ideas to get started — SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation. Basically, what you can do to help get your blog/ website/ web page onto the first page of a search engine’s results page. How do you ensure your content is being shown to those who search for it? …

Lead Magnet ideas for when you need a little inspiration to get back to working on your e-mail newsletter! — One thing I am very terrible at doing is my e-mail newsletter list. More specifically, doing anything at all with it! Oh, I know, I know, it’s what you should be doing to build an audience and gain a following. But I’m having trouble knowing which direction to go with…