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Blog posts by Simon Jay

A Pinch of Notoriety Will Do

13-Mar-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

When the book went live on Monday it didn’t quite sink in. It had been talked about so much, prepared, drafted, redrafted and then proofed (and sort of proofed again) that when I told my little Facebook Page that Amazon took 8 hours for the book to go live, I was shocked that a message […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bestseller, biography, gay, LGBT, memoir, mental health, no 1.

Limbo

10-Mar-15 By Simon Jay Leave a Comment

It’s been just over 24 hours since my e-book went live. The initial responses have been mostly positive. One or two comments of ‘could’ve used a spell-check’ irked me, as we’d been over the text with a fine tooth-comb, but heigh ho, it’s good that it can be updated again, no book is ever truly […]

Filed Under: Getting Published Tagged With: bar wotever, bastardography, gay, LGBT, memoir, mental health, RVT, zitebooks

Five things to worry about when publishing your memoir

9-Mar-15 By Simon Jay 2 Comments

Today the first thing I’ve written with a serious intent is being published. That means anybody can get their eyes and smear them across my words! This is an exciting prospect, it’s been worked on for two years and been rewritten and proofed to a professional standard, and if I do say so myself, I […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creative, gay, hope, LGBT, love, mad, mental health, wonder

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