A haunted train station in 1959, a freight train with a mysterious cargo and a young woman determined to throw herself in front of it… Rachel miraculously finds herself back at home in the present with her father but suffering a recurring nightmare of being trapped on Kings Heath station in 1959, trying to prevent her maternal grandmother, Deirdre Foster, committing suicide. As more and more characters from her time-travelling past intrude on both her too perfect waking world and …

Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone in 2012, travels back to 1966 to repair her lost timeline with the help of Charlie, now 50 years old but still in love with her. Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a pair of mismatched History students who stumble upon an old gravestone that catapults them back in time. The Swinging Sixties are in full flow, Birmingham is being rebuilt and England are hosting the football World …

Just over a year ago, I received an email from a French reader of one of my self-published novellas. This is one of the great things about being an indie publisher. You get random emails from people all over the world: people who have seen your book online and taken a risk on it. Not only that, they’ve liked it so much they’ve taken the trouble to write to the author. But Fabien Cathelin had something else to say. He …

Contrary to popular myth, we do judge a book by its cover. But in the new ebook publishing landscape, the book cover is not entirely what we’ve always thought it was. Hopefully, this blog will give writers new to indie publishing an insight into how an ebook cover works and provide some hints and tips on how to go indie with book cover design that ends up looking like the dog’s… not the dog’s dinner. I’ve used two very talented designers …