ANOTHER magazine has published an article following the press release about the book You Can be a Film-maker. This appeared in Digital Filmmaker magazine.

Here is a readable PDF of the whole article for you to download.

I've had my first response to the press release I sent out last week. US title Moviemaker has asked me for a short extract from the book and it went live on the website this morning.

​You can read it by clicking here.

Sales of the book have slowed down after the first flurry of interest. I guess I don't have enough friends!

The next stage is to try to generate a bit of noise through PR so I've written a press release to send to magazines and websites about film-making. Let's see what happens now.

​The release and images I sent out can be downloaded here:

WELL the editor worked his magic and gave me some excellent suggestions for additional content. We also made a change to the strapline on the cover.

I added some more photographic technique and now each chapter is followed by a list of key learning points from the previous pages.

I was amazed how easy it is to publish to Amazon and then to a range of other outlets through the excellent Draft2Digital service. Within a few hours of me submitting the text and the images, the book was listed and available to buy on these sites.

By not offering it to Amazon exclusively, I will miss out on some of the promotion-power it offers but I'll see how it goes at first through this wider range of outlets. They all offer a free preview of the introduction and first chapter, so have a quick browse and let me know what you think. If you take the plunge with your £7.99/$9.99 please write a short review or tell me if you like the book. Suggestions for updates will be most welcome, too, or I can try to answer specific questions about film-making through these blog posts. And you can email me direct at martyn@northlightmedia.co.uk