EVEN MORE YOWZA IN YOUR BROWSER!
From time to time I create a literary post article of some kind – pertaining to New Hollycopse itself, or to some aspect of authorship – and I post said article on the New Hollycopse website. That’s all very well if you regularly visit the New Hollycopse website. A lot of people don’t… So I’ve brought the posts here: If Muhammad won’t go to the mountain; the mountain must come to Muhammad.
Below, therefore, is an appropriately titled listing – on this website – of the posts originally committed to the New Hollycopse website: –
AI-Phobia in the Author Community
8 June 2026
I was browsing an author group the other day, and encountered a prime example of AI-phobia: an author had created her own illustration – which was rather good as it happened. She’d then posted a version of the illustration...
A Brochure Is Not a Sales Path
7 June 2026
The Cambridge Dictionary says that a brochure is "a type of small magazine that contains pictures and information on a product or a company". You can sell information as a product in itself; but information alone doesn't sell product....
Who Is Colin Perth Married To?
4 June 2026
When I, Sharron Idol, author of New Hollycopse Series #1 - Beginning, Series #2 - Business, and Series #3 - Beyond, was a teenager, I wrote a story involving a character called Colin Perth. I sent that story off to...
28 May 2026
In a way I saved the best 'til last... But that's probably not true. - Because I'm not intending Series #3 of New Hollycopse to be the last of New Hollycopse. - And, although it's pretty good stuff if I...
22 May 2026
Series #3 - "Beyond" is now moving into public view. This is the story of why the New Hollycopse trilogy needed to be finished, secured, and placed beyond the risk of remaining hidden.
Micky Comes to New Hollycopse Farm
1 May 2026
Micky's Origins Micky the AI becomes an integral character in the story as early as before the end of Series #2. But if we take a trip back in time, even revealing some hitherto-undisclosed story material, we can follow his...
I Stopped to Write This | Reflections of an Independent Author
30 April 2026
I Stopped to Write This …I suddenly felt compelled to do so. When I first started writing in March 2023, I announced that I was writing a book. Surprisingly, almost everybody got behind me and gave me great encouragement. As...
26 April 2026
I was having a session with the AI the other day. - We were discussing online advertising as promotion. We tried Meta first: That was a disaster because Meta's AI wants to create its own series of ads from...
22 April 2026
They Arrived… and Then Left If, like me, you happen to be a new author, then you’ll know how difficult it is to truly put your work out there and grab people's attention. Your first book is about to be...
17 April 2026
A full structural rebuild of the New Hollycopse website transformed scattered pages into a working conversion system, improving visibility, strengthening internal flow, and laying the groundwork for sustained reader engagement and growth.