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TEENS by Alison Middleton Timms

I have just published my first ever book under Eden's expert guidance. Thank you Eden! We got there didn't we??

I chose to work with Eden as she could give me one to one support and knew she would be brutally honest with me and really importantly, could help me achieve a rather ambitious task of publishing a book within a very tight deadline! Literally within 6 months. When I contacted her in September 23 I hadn't written my book! Now in March 24 I am a published author!!

I have to pinch myself to believe that together we have made that happen. I would not have achieved that without Eden's guidance and support.

It has been a real journey of learning and have appreciated her wealth of knowledge of the book industry and all it's nuances. It is one thing to actually write the book but understanding the industry and publishing aspect a whole world I knew nothing about and Eden's knowledge and experience is invaluable.

I also appreciated her honesty and not being afraid to be direct and put me right on a thing or two! She has rightly challenged me. At times there have been things I've not wanted to hear but had to and I appreciate her for her calmness and perseverance.

Thank you Eden for being authentic and helping achieve one of my goals!

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Massive help to be pointed in the right direction

"I reached out to Eden for some guidance on a book idea I was developing, and she signposted me to some excellent resources.

When you don't know what you don't know, it's a massive help to be pointed in the right direction, and know the important thing to watch out for.

Thank you."

S Kennedy

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Want Help To Finish Your Book?

There are various ways that professional authors get their books finished, and whatever the genre my tips work. Follow the steps to create the book.

Whether you are at the ideas scribbled in a notepad stage, you have started drafting out the story. You have been stuck editing chapter one for what seems like forever, or you have got as far as the end of your first draft.

There are several steps to get you publisher ready, and if you don't know what they are it is an uphill struggle. But you are not alone, and I am happy to share my tips to help you get from where you are to where you want to be.

I use the same checklist that I am about to share with you for each and every book.

email me my free checklist

If you receive your checklist and find that you are feeling overwhelmed - don’t panic! it doesn’t all have to be done today. Becoming and author is a marathon and not a sprint.

Having a successful author business is like any other - it’s about educating yourself and working at it. Make sure you keep on writing because without that what else is there?

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This month has been all go and we still have a week to go yet, with interviews about how lock-down affected the publishing and eventual release of ‘Laughing at Myself’. Trying to work out whether I want to strike out into the outside world after lock-down, and finding out that I don’t, and have, to my surprise turned into quite the hermit.

We saw family for the first time in four months, with no cuddling, and not being able to stay at their houses. Being in a holiday cottage felt most peculiar, although we knew it was very clean and hadn’t had anyone else staying there. Trying to see three different lots of family in three days was quite a rush.

While we were away my designer took the opportunity to take my website offline for  three days, while she gave it an overhaul. During the time the site was offline and being worked on, a technical glitch sent over fifty cheese related emails out to my subscribers, and social media accounts.

So, if you had an inbox full of cheese, I do apologise, we still haven’t worked out quite what happened. Seriously, it could only happen to me, you just couldn’t make this stuff up! so I had to spent the few minutes between time with the family, replying to messages from people who wondered what was happening to their inbox. Facebook still keeps offering me the option to boost posts about Jarlsberg…think I’ll give that one a miss, thanks Facebook.

Despite the hiccups, Jade from Hashtag Web Design worked her magic on my website, and I have since seen my highest ever number of visitors; which as you can appreciate makes it all worthwhile. Take a moment to let me know what you think of the new layout, menus, and design by leaving me a comment below, particularly if you are one of my regular visitors, although I like to hear from you all of course.

Apart from interviews, website and inbox disasters, I have been working on Make Your Book A Reality Masterclass and Mentoring Memberships. Despite thinking it was nearly there, during the recording process it became clear that some of the courses could be broken down further. Making each topic share enough knowledge but stopping before you would experience overwhelm, so that’s slowed things down. But the most important thing to me is to get it right for you.

Find out how I can help you write your own book

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