Author: Joe

We have accidentally turned into experts in KDP publishing at eQuality Time, so it’s always interesting to find a problem we haven’t come across before. The book we’re looking at is actually my own book, but I’m using it as a case study. I recently found a typo in a book I published so I […]

We’ve ticked off a long-awaited goal today and upgraded the ‘success page’ for the Open Voice Factory. For serveral years users have gone from this nice site: To this functional but barren thing: Today we finally updated that, now people are sent to this success page: This isn’t just a cosmetic change – we’ve also […]

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our the “Security for Changemakers” course! Our six-session course is designed to equip students aged 16-18 with the skills they need to stay safe while advocating for change in their communities. We recognize that many of the young people we work with are passionate about creating […]

We’ve published almost 300 books on Amazon’s kdp platform, and more and more regularly we see this on books we’ve just published: “Currently unavailable” This is really strange: Amazon uses a print-on-demand (POD) system, which means that when a book is ordered, it is printed and shipped directly from the printing facility. This is a […]

White Water Writers effectively runs as a publishing company, so one of the most important tools we use is our database of books. It may not be the most exciting part of our work, but it plays a vital role in making sure that our project runs smoothly and efficiently. Over the past couple of […]

The Open Voice Factory has had an update, the start of a few we have planned over the next few months. It should be invisible to users – it’s mostly been changes to the internals so that things work more efficiently. Mildly worryingly the above paragraph is directly copy-pasted from our last blog post about […]

We are working on a new project called Tightrope. It’s goal is to get more young people interested in Cyber Security by talking about what Cyber Security really is, and showing people how little of it needs a keyboard and how much of it needs empathy, understanding, and imagination. We wrote six lessons with A-level […]

There’s now a price calculator at https://whitewaterwriters.com/prices.html. School budgets are tight and we think that being upfront about cost will save everybody some time. We’ve been using the cost here , but inflation is starting to make them less accurate.

Our use of Google Ads has been extremely uneven: one project does astonished well, another does very badly. We’re starting to wonder if it’s a great idea. We received a Google Ads grant about two years ago; it gave us up to $10,000 worth of ad credit a month. Since then we’ve spent over $1,000 […]

The Open Voice Factory has had an update, the start of a few we have planned over the next few months. It should be invisible to users – it’s mostly been changes to the internals so that things work more efficiently. In detail – some time ago we added some code that allowed OVF to […]