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Let me give you another running update of what’s happening behind the scenes. We’re still in beta mode, although it’s a public beta, meaning that everything is now public facing – your blogs, your newsletters, your podcasts, your author page, and so on. The past week has been entirely focused...

The Author Platform (Litopia.com, including all the features it contains such as blogging, author newsletters, podcasting etc) will go into testing mode tomorrow (Tuesday 21st April) at approx 9:30am UK time. Testing will last about three hours, i.e. until approximately 12:30pm the same day...

I came across this helpful article about author newsletters. It's particularly related to Substack, but it's good advice for those of us who are looking at producing newsletters on the Litopia Author Platform...

Hard work continues on this ground-breaking innovation that is oh-so-close to release :) A few screenshots to tantalize you… Here’s the default view that your readers will initially see… Before you’ve started to apply some very exciting themes to it… One thing to note is the absence of the...

The Author Platform will be coming out of beta quite soon but, before then, a lot of programming work is taking place behind the scenes. If you are one of our beta testers (and thank you for being one!) then you will likely sees changes in functionality and sometimes loss of functionality. None...

Hello there, My name is Silver or you can call me Celeste. I have loved writing (and reading!) ever since I was a young child. In December 2024, I published my first book: a poetry chapbook with 18 poems. Now, I'm working on a few stories including a four-part pulp fantasy adventure and a...

Being pretty new to Litopia, I’m still finding my way around and I’ve spent some of the weekend tinkering with the author platform. I then created an update but I didn’t realise at first that it was going to be public. I then cottoned on that the articles at the top of the colony page were in...

I'm virtually attending the 2025 SFF Worldcon this week/weekend and just sat in on a panel called "Where’s the Money in Indie Publishing?" Was FAB! One of the panelists pointed us to a survey The Alliance of Independent Authors (UK) did that shows all kinds of interesting statistics (from...

Manda Scott was an award winning crime writer-up for an Edgar, when she was drawn to write something completely different.

…For Litopia’s forthcoming Author Platform, as debuted in yesterday’s Huddle. Please put your name down below and you’ll be granted (a) full access to the beta-version of the Author Platform; and (b) access to the Colony’s private Beta-Testers forum for your bug reports and suggestions. Thank...

So I decided to create my own space, something beyond an author website---almost like my own online publishing company for my stuff, and maybe in the future for my cool writer friends ;-) I want this page to start publishing all my serialised work: diff screenplays, short stories, and of course...

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit. Cynthia Voigt

“You are who you are when nobody’s watching” Stephen Fry

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. Ursula K. Le Guin

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

“There’s a kind of ear music … a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.” Allan Gurganus

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant

“Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.” Eliot Schrefer

Came across this. Might be interesting: https://www.indieauthorbookfair.com/upcoming-events No idea if it's any good, but I'm thinking of going since it's on my doorstep. Anyone else going? Let me know and we can visit the local pup and get very sloshed beforehand for a quick drink.