Review: Imaginative, creative and very useful.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 4, 2014
Sometimes, when I read a book I think: 'I'd like to meet this guy.' I'd definitely like to meet Derek Murphy. This book gives honest, creative, idiosyncratic and thought-provoking approaches to writing and publishing your book. Almost every page offers some fresh new idea. Many of the ideas I use already, a lot I wouldn't want to use because they seem too hard or might take me too much time. That doesn't matter because Derek usually offers you an alternative solution which suits me more. I first came across Derek when I took up his offer to do a make-over of one existing novel covers. He said he wouldn't have time to discuss things in great detail but I must have missed that part of the offer for we did discuss things and he gave me loads of different choices. Then, out of the goodness of his heart, he did make-overs for the next two books in my series. After a few months the sales have increased six-fold. All of this is typical of the man and this book is typical of him. Imaginative, creative, Quixotic, full of choice and lateral thinking, grounded in great experience. And above all else, honest. Oh, and very, very useful. I recommend it for all Indie authors.