{"id":67471,"date":"2020-09-20T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-20T09:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/sandbox\/?page_id=67471"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T09:28:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/sandbox\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

About Derek Haines and Just Publishing Advice<\/h2>\n

\"\"Welcome. My name is Derek Haines, and I have a passion for words in print.<\/p>\n

Last century, before the terms blogging and self-publishing and the advent of e-books and print-on-demand paperbacks, and well before Amazon was even born, I was printing, hand binding, and selling my novels and books of mediocre poetry.<\/p>\n

I started my professional working life as a lithographer and spent more than thirty years in the printing and publishing business.<\/p>\n

But when a new century dawned, my passion for writing led me into studying and then teaching English.<\/p>\n

My time now is spent writing, blogging, and taming technology. I have self-published eighteen books, and hopefully, there are more in the wind.<\/p>\n

My long-held interest in writing and publishing, as a means of freedom of expression rather than as an avenue to fame and instant riches, led me to blogging.<\/p>\n

They were called weblogs when I started, so that dates my experience. But I love it because it is real publishing at a grassroots level.<\/p>\n

How Just Publishing Advice began<\/h3>\n

I started Just Publishing as an addition to my personal blog in 2010.<\/p>\n

By 2015, visitor numbers were a few too many for my old site to handle, so I had to move to a new domain and an upgraded server to manage the increase in traffic.<\/p>\n

With the transfer, there was a slight change of name to Just Publishing Advice. It\u2019s a much better description because it is what this site is all about.<\/p>\n

The aim of my site is simple.<\/p>\n

I want to call on my experience to help create a growing resource site for new and even not-so-new writers, authors, bloggers, content writers, book cover designers, or anyone interested in writing, blogging, and publishing.<\/p>\n

If you would like to contact me or ask a question, you can use the site\u2019s contact form. If you prefer social media, you can find me on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Linkedin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also\u00a0visit my personal website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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