Reader Magnet Ideas

Hi all,

It's been a while since I wrote a post that could help other authors, so I thought I'd change that today.

This week, I'm going to be talking about reader magnets. In order to entice readers to sign up for your newsletter, it's best practice to offer them something for free. It needs to be something substantial that readers will actually want in order to sign up to your newsletter.

Short story collection

I've offered quite a few of these and I've found them to be pretty popular. The stories should be set in the universe of one of your books or series. The stories can be of your main characters or side characters that you might want to explore further. You can write as many stories as you want, they can be linked or just a standalone story.

Prequel

If readers have already read your book and want more in that universe, offer a prequel. They can learn more about what happens before the events of the book or explore a certain character. I'd recommend picking a popular character for a prequel, or an important side one that influences the main story in some way.

Free novel

You don't need to write something entirely new in order to get sign ups for your mailing list. You can use one of your books that is already published but offer it for free. Once readers have a taste of your writing, they may be inclined to buy more.

Sample chapters

If you're not comfortable offering an entire book, offer a few sample chapters instead. You can then end your reader magnet with a link to the full book and where they can purchase it. If they're hooked, it might lead to more buyers.

Deleted scenes

Some readers are interested in what scenes didn't make it into the book itself. You can order a reader magnet filled with deleted scenes with reasons as to why they didn't make it into the final draft of the book.

Illustrations

Some readers want to visualise what your characters look like, or even parts of the world. You can offer a book filled with illustrations of whatever you think that your readers would want.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading. See you next week! 

PS; before you go, don’t forget to check out these book bundles:

SFF Plot Before Passion

Kindle Unlimited with the occult and supernatural

Curse of Anubis Complete Collection Pre-Order Live

Hi all,

Now that all of the books in the Curse of Anubis series have been published, I’ve gathered them up into one ebook boxset! This will be published on 14th July 2026.

The Complete Collection contains all of the books in the Curse of Anubis series in one neat little bundle!

You will receive:

The Plague’s Hope

The Blazing Serpent

The Frozen Eye

The Dead Kingdom

While waiting for the Complete Collection to come out why not join my mailing list? You’ll get exclusive short stories, cover reveals, book deals and merch surveys!

In return you’ll get five FREE enovellas that can’t be downloaded anywhere else. I also plan on adding more free books in the future, so it’ll definitely be worth your while signing up!

You can currently download:

Elemental Dragons Short Story Collection - a collection of short stories involving dragons

Famished - a prequel to Mute

Years - a prequel to Years

Seashine - a look at the origins of a minor character in Celestial Plague

Curse of Anubis Short Story Collection - a collection of short stories about Egyptian gods

In the next few years the following enovellas will also be available (may be subject to change):

The First Sacrifice - a prequel to Game of Air and Lightning

Tartarus - a prequel to Empty Skies

Original Elementals Short Story Collection - another batch of short stories involving dragons

The Moth Queen - a prequel to Cloud’s Core

That’s it for this week! I hope you’re looking forward to reading the Complete Collection. See you next week!

PS; before you go, don’t forget to check out these book bundles:

SFF Plot Before Passion

Kindle Unlimited with the occult and supernatural

July 2026 Writing Project Announcement

Hi all,

July is rapidly approaching so it's time to announce my writing project! As there's only one more book remaining in the Original Elementals series, that will be my July project.

The book is called Ironclaw, and it follows Melissa and her dragon companion who the book is named after. She is the first metal Elemental but she is not allowed to show her powers to the world.

The book is set a few years after the conclusion of book nine, so the other characters are slightly older. Melissa is fifteen.

Although she lives at Aria, she has to be kept away from Ironclaw and her markings have to be hidden. Because Ironclaw has metal markings, in order not to make others suspicious she has to tell people that he died soon after hatching.

Melissa desperately wants to be recognised as an Original and decides to seek out Jaime, who wrote the books on the other Originals. She begs him to write a book about her and he agrees.

But, in order to feel like an Original, Melissa decides to perform a great feat like the others did. But they have a separate plan of their own, one they don't want her interfering with.

I'm quite excited to write the final book in the series, though I'm also sad as well. The series has to come to an end at some point. Ten books is the longest series I've written so far, and I'm not sure I'll be aiming to beat it anytime soon. Switching main characters definitely helped, though I did experience burnout when writing this series.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next Sunday. 

PS; don’t forget to check out these book bundles before you go:

Young Adult Book Giveaway

Legendary Lores (All Genres)

SFF Plot Before Passion

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What Authors Should Write in Their Notebooks

Hi all,

I know what it's like to have too many notebooks. I used to hate writing in them as I felt like I was ruining them. But I've come to realise that it's okay to use your notebooks! I thought I'd give a few tips on what you can use them for.

Character Names.

If you come across some great character names while you're researching you can always add them to your notebook. Having a nice list of character names is always good when you come up with new book ideas or short stories.

Doodles.

I use one of my notebooks for doodling designs related to my books. I've drawn the marking designs for the Elemental Dragons series and a few bits and pieces from Curse of Anubis and Celestial Plague. Having something visual can help you when you come to writing about it.

Book Ideas.

This is an obvious one, but jotting down notes for stories, characters and plots is always a great way to use a notebook. You can have a rough notes version and then a more detailed version in a different notebook if you prefer.

Lists.

If you're planning on doing events where you sell books, making lists is a great way to plan. You can tick stuff off as you get it done or keep an inventory of what you're selling.

Book Titles.

Writing down a bunch of book titles is a great way to use a notebook. You can even mix and match some of the titles if there's one you like more than the others.

Planning.

I think the best way to use a notebook is to plan or set goals. If you want to keep track of your writing progress or think about what you want to write next, then a notebook would be a great use for that.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoy reading! See you next week. 

PS; don’t forget to check out these book bundles to find your next read:

Young Adult Book Giveaway

Lengedary Lores (All Genres)

My Favourite Second-Hand Bookstore

Hi all,

This week I'm going to tell you all about my favourite secondhand bookstore: World of Books!

I came across them randomly when I was looking up Doctor Who books. They have a wide variety of books in paperback and hardcover. I usually buy books from there when I've gotten through a batch of paperbacks (or when there's a really good deal on).

I don't mind getting secondhand books because I like the thought that someone loved them before I did. It makes me happy knowing that someone sold the books so they could be bought by others who will get the chance to read it for the first time.

There are so many amazing books on World of Books, in a variety of genres too! Most of the books I've bought from them are Sci-Fi and mythology books, but I always find myself browsing to see if there are any other books I might like on there too.

If you're looking for good books to read for a discount, I'd highly recommend them. It's a great way to recycle old books and get them into the hands of new people without pulling on the purse strings too much.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next week. 

PS; don’t forget to check out these book bundles to find your next read:

Young Adult Book Giveaway

Lengedary Lores (All Genres)

Who is Mother Earth?

Hi all,

It's been quite a while since I've done a blog post on Years, but I've had a few questions about it recently that I thought I would answer.

If you've read Solar Child, then you'll know that Mother Earth is a lioness from outer space who arrives on Earth to see that the planet is in ruins. She comes across several children who she gives her power to. But when she comes back years later, the children have been experimented on by other humans and their power stripped from them.

Mother Earth is an alien, but she didn't create the Earth. She adopted it as her own as she flew through the cosmos one day. She recharges and rests in suns, and came across the one in our galaxy millions of years ago. Humans weren't around yet and she fell in love with the lush forests and animals on the planet.

So, she decided to become its protector.

But what she didn't expect is for humanity to start polluting the planet, speeding up its destruction. When she discovered this, she wasn't happy with humanity. They had killed millions of creatures and cut down so many forests in their expansion. Now, the entire planet was suffering because of their behaviour.

As she's an alien, she doesn't understand why humanity are destroying their own home. The planet that she's watched evolve over millions of years is special to her and she doesn't understand why humans won't treat it the same way.

If she had never come across Earth, she would continue to float through the cosmos, without a purpose. She's the only one of her kind, forged from a star. She has zero understanding of other species and planets, which is why she fixates so quickly on the first planet with life that she comes across.

Her solar storms are to make humanity change their ways. But then they make the machines, which disrupts her power and uses it against her.

For her, there is nothing worse than losing this planet, as she'll lose her purpose. She doesn't want to just fly around space and risk not finding another planet like Earth. So, she does her best in reclaiming the planet so it can go back to what it once was.

The Gaia Children are souls that she frees from the planet, allowing them a chance to explore the universe for themselves. Even though she could join them, she doesn't want to. She's too attached to Earth.

That's it for this week, see you next Sunday! 

PS; don’t forget to check out these book bundles to find your next read:

Young Adult Book Giveaway

Lengedary Lores (All Genres)

The Final Book in the Original Elementals Series

Hi all,

I know I teased you about this in my wrap up for Original Elementals #9: Arcturus, but I think I've left you in the dark long enough.

There will be a tenth book in the series, which I'm sure you've already figured out by now.

This book will follow Melissa, the first metal Elemental.

If you've read Elemental Dragons, then you probably remember when Hazel and her friends come across giant vats filled with elemental serum. One of those is labelled as the metal element, but they don't get much chance to investigate.

The tenth book, Ironclaw, will tell the story of the forgotten Original. Born a few years after the others, she is in her first year at Aria when Stella graduates. She has not met the Originals in person, all she knows about them is from her first edition books that her father let's her read.

Melissa and Ironclaw want to be like the other Originals and she's desperate for her own book to tell her story. But her father, a lead scientist, refuses this because the stories of the Originals have been tainted. He's also worried about anyone knowing her element, so she has to hide her markings and tell everyone that her dragon died.

But Melissa is stubborn and desperate to go down in history with the other Originals. She contacts Jaime, who is now a disgraced author, and pleads with him to write her book. Seeing that this could be a comeback for him, he agrees.

And that's all I'm going to tell you so far! This book will most likely be my July project, finally ending the series.

I'm still deciding what to do regarding a Patreon, as I keep flipping back and forth on the idea. I've asked my newsletter subscribers to give their feedback, and I'll see what they say.

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next Sunday. 

PS; don’t forget to check out these book bundles to find your next read:

Young Adult Book Giveaway

Lengedary Lores (All Genres)

I Skipped a Writing Day for the First Time in a Decade

Hi all,

For the first time in over a decade, I skipped a day of writing during one of my writing months.

When I was writing Original Elementals #9: Arcturus last month, I missed a day of writing. The reason that I didn't write is because I had so much going on during the day that I hadn't planned for, so I had no time to write. By the time everything was over, I was too overwhelmed and overstimulated to even think about writing.

This is the first time that I've ever done this, and I felt a lot of guilt throughout the whole day. I felt like I was letting myself down by not doing it. That I was setting myself up to fail by leaving a day. But after a few days, I realised that nothing had changed.

I was still writing for the rest of the days and the story was still going on as normal. By the time the month was over, I only needed to write one extra day to finish the story. I was annoyed that I could have finished the whole thing within the month, but eventually I came to terms with it.

If I had forced myself to write that day, it wouldn't have been good writing. I would have been writing for the hell of it, to get words on a page. But it wouldn't have been quality writing. I would have to go back and heavily edit every single word because I made myself write when I didn't have the energy to.

This whole thing has made me realise that I can take a day off and the world won't end. Everything will keep going as normal when I finally get back to it. Sometimes I just need a break and that's okay. Sometimes I just need to be kind to myself.

Now, I don't regret that one day off. I'm hoping it won't happen too often again in the future, but if it does I know that nothing will happen.

That's it for this week! I hope you enjoyed reading, see you next week. 

The Indie Author Bookstore

Hi all,

As a member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, I'm part of their new online bookstore!

You can search for new authors you may never have heard of and maybe find your new favourite. There are thousands of books in a variety of genres, themes and seasons. New books and authors are featured each day, so there's always something new to find.

All of my books are on there which will link back to my Amazon page.

By supporting the Indie Author Bookstore you'll be helping so many self published authors sell more books, gain reviews and show the world that indie authors are just as good as traditionally published ones.

If you want to support me and other ALLi members, you can browse the bookstore here.

If you read any of the books and enjoy them, then please leave a review! They help authors a lot more than you realise.

Don't forget to spread the word about the Indie Author Bookstore! See you next week. 

The Dead Kingdom is now Available on Amazon

Hi all,

The final book in the Curse of Anubis series is now available to buy on Amazon! It is now available in ebook, paperback and hardcover.

The dead have taken over… there is no cure.

To protect her new family, Tahira has no choice but to embrace the undead side of herself. As Ra’s chosen one, she has the unthinkable task of ending Anubis’ tirade of death.

The gods have a new ruler; Ra’s reign is over. But that doesn’t mean Bastet’s fight is; with new allies, she has a chance to bring Anubis down. The only thing that stands in her way is the goddess she loves the most.

To finally stop the plague, Bastet and Tahira will have to make unbearable sacrifices. But only one thing is on their mind, can they bring Ra back?

I hope you enjoy reading the last book in the series! That’s it for this week, see you next week.