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Five book blurb writing observations
Five book blurb writing observations

Amazon KDP gives you a basic text editor for your book’s blurb, but here are five observations that I have made from researching other books. All of the examples are taken from Mystery books in the Amazon UK store.

Creating a Kindle formatted book from Google Docs
Creating a Kindle formatted book from Google Docs

I have seen a few posts on Threads recently asking what software people use to format their books. This is one option out of many, but I thought I would share my current workflow to give authors an insight into the pros and cons.

Hosting a Laravel app with AWS Beanstalk
Hosting a Laravel app with AWS Beanstalk

There are lots of possible hosting solutions available for Laravel, from Forge, to Vapor to the new Laravel Cloud. I’ll start out by saying that these other solutions are much easier to get up and running than beanstalk, but I thought I’d share some of the “fun” I had getting it up and running.

How NOT to make a website

Unlooked for Tales - a collection of short stories

By C.S. Rhymes

Free on Apple Books and Google Play Books

Nigel's Intranet Adventure

Nigel's Intranet Adventure

By C.S. Rhymes

From £0.99 or read for free on Kindle Unlimited!