Author Archives: Sophie Toovey

Bell Time- now available to pre-order!

I’m so excited to announce that Bell Time is available for pre-orders on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo and will be released on 6th June. I first started writing it back in 2020, so I am really happy to share this story and the characters (which feel like my friends!) to the world. BellContinueContinue reading “Bell Time- now available to pre-order!”

Releasing audio chapters on Youtube

I saw a post on the Facebook Writing Gals community from Victoria Lieske, who has self published many sweet romances, about how she has been using Youtube to build her readership. She already had a readership for her novels, but she found that when she posted the full audio book on Youtube, her readership grewContinueContinue reading “Releasing audio chapters on Youtube”

Solving the Rubik’s Cube

I’ve been thinking about the way that the process of writing often feels to me like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube. Side note: my daughter is a bit obsessed with them. She has the normal one and then five other varieties, including the stainless steel one which has cubes of different sizes. Maddening! IContinueContinue reading “Solving the Rubik’s Cube”

Comps – the Highs and the Lows

If you’re preparing a query, you’ve probably read a thousand times that you need comps: other books to compare your own with and set it alongside. And there’s varying conflicting advice on this too. Many people say it’s best to go with titles published in the last two years, to ensure you’re current and yourContinueContinue reading “Comps – the Highs and the Lows”

First Draft tools

I’m chuffed that I recently finished my first draft of ‘Bell Time’, a contemporary rom-com set in a school. My main goal was to make sure it was much more tightly structured than my first novel, ‘The Day of the Dice’, where my first draft was 120k words. Waaaaaay too long! So I succeeded inContinueContinue reading “First Draft tools”