Nick Spalding

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Nick Spalding
Nick Spalding
Born1974 (age 4950)
United Kingdom
OccupationAuthor
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction, comedy
Notable works
  • Love From Both Sides (2013)
  • Fat Chance (2014)
  • Checking Out (2018)

Nick Spalding (born Isle of Wight, England, in 1974) is a British comedy novelist. [1] [2]

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Writings

His self-published 2012 e-books Love From Both Sides and Love And Sleepless Nights were both best-sellers. [1] [3] [4] Love From Both Sides, which he describes as "a warts-and-all romantic comedy for everyone who knows how tricky the quest for love can be," sold a quarter of a million copies in 2012. [5] [6]

Based on that book's success he signed up with Hodder and Stoughton. [5] [7] His books are currently published by Amazon Publishing's Lake Union imprint. [5] He has some self-published books still published by Notting Hill Press and is often referred to as a 'hybrid' author because of this. [8]

Spalding has written articles for the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook [9] and has held a writing masterclass for The Guardian . [10]

Books

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References

  1. 1 2 Feeney-Hart, Alison (14 December 2013). "Top 10 self-publishing tips". BBC.
  2. "Successful Indie Authors Share Their Secrets. How I Do It by Nick Spalding". Alliance of Independent Authors. 14 September 2014.
  3. Moore, Lucy (7 April 2015). "Love From Both Sides by Nick Spalding". Female First.
  4. Campbell, Lisa (25 July 2012). "Spalding success for Amazon". The Bookseller.
  5. 1 2 3 Midgley, Dominic (16 August 2015). "50 Shades of self-publishers: Fame and fortune through publishing yourself online". Sunday Express.
  6. Campbell, Lisa (7 January 2013). "Self-published authors on Kindle bestseller list". The Bookseller.
  7. Williams, Charlotte (5 October 2012). "Coronet signs self-published hit Spalding". The Bookseller.
  8. Reed, Jon (1 August 2017). "Traditional or indie? Hybrid author Nick Spalding looks at publishing from both sides". Publishing Talk.
  9. "Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2016". Bloomsbury Publishing.
  10. "Successful self-publishing with Nick Spalding". the Guardian. 19 November 2015.