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Natasha Duncan-Drake – Author

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Pseudonyms: Tasha D-Drake, Tasha Duncan

Bio

Natasha is a British author with Wittegen Press and has been publishing genre fiction since 2011. Her work includes everything from horror to young adult fantasy and she has never met a genre she didn’t like. A prolific producer of short stories and novels alike, Natasha currently has over twenty five titles in her back catalogue with further releases always imminent.

Natasha has been writing since she was a young girl ever since she read The Hobbit at Primary School. She is a big fan of science fiction, fantasy and horror in all their forms and is a big advocate of fanfiction as a great tool for writers to polish their skills in a welcoming and supportive community.

Before establishing Wittegen Press with her twin sister, Sophie Duncan, Natasha was a database and systems consultant. She combines these skills with her writing to create and manage her career in the bold new eBook market.

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Three different images with a red background all with different text with the words Save Layers from Photoshop - FAST over the top.

How to Batch Save Layers in Photoshop

There is an option to save each layer as its own image in Photoshop, which is very useful if each layer is its own complete image.

File > Export > Layers to File

However, if, for example, we have lots of text layers we wish to save, all with the same background/foreground (see below), or we have lots of different icons we want to save all with the same background, this is not sufficient.

Three different images with a red background all with different text.
Example of text layers with the same BG

If we use the Layers to File option, we will end up with one image that is the background and all out text layers either without a background if we save with transparency, or with a plain background if we save without transparency.

Now we could faff around with Photoshop to create our own script to do what we actually want, but we don't have to, because a very nice person has already done it for us.

Photoshop-Export-Layers-to-Files-Fast

  1. Go to the above link and download the zip file.
    Screenshot from Github to show where to download the file.
  2. Extract the zip file into its own directory.
  3. Copy the following 2 files from the directory:
    Export Layers To Files (Fast).jsx
    Export Layers To Files (Fast)-progress_bar.json
  4. Navigate to the Photoshop Scripts directory, probably something like this:
    \Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2025\Presets\Scripts
  5. Paste the files into the scripts directory.
  6. Start Photoshop
  7. The script can be found in the following menu:
    Files > Scripts

When we run the script we get this screen:

Snapshot of Export Layers to Files Fast

As you can see there are lots of options.

  • We can have a background and/or a foreground
  • We can export all layers (except the background and/or foreground if we have selected them)
  • or a Group of layers
  • or just the visible layers
  • and we can pick what format to export to
  • plus much more.
This takes what can be a 15 min job:
  1. turning on the right foreground layer,
  2. exporting the layer with the background
  3. rinse and repeat
Into a 30 second job of clicking a few buttons.

It has saved me so much time, I had to share it. Hope you are having a great week.


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Each week we have a theme and so there will be something for all tastes.
  • 🎤Micro stories/ jokes as YouTube Shorts Monday - Sunday- for fun quick viewing
  • 🕮A longer story every now and then for story time, over coffee or before going to bed

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Author: Tasha Duncan-Drake
Posted: May 12, 2025, 7:30 am
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eBook How-To Updates for 2025

So my pages on where to upload eBooks and how to format an eBook have needed updating for a while and I have finally gotten around to it. One has completely changed, since my methods for creating eBooks is now totally different, and the other has more information and some other changes. I hope someone might find the information useful, since when we're first starting out this can all be a bit of a mystery. 

Where to Publish eBooks

Updates include:

  1. the addition of what every site requires to upload an eBook
  2. swapping out Smashwords for Draft2Digital as an aggregate site to publish to all the eBook sellers after their merger

How to Format Your eBook for Kindle, Draft2Digital & Google Books (2025)

Whole new page with all the steps I now take to create eBooks for distribution to all major eBook publishers.

This includes:

  • a link to the Kindle Create plugin for Word that Amazon KDP no longer support, but that still works a treat.
  • example Word files using the default 4 KDP templates for eBooks for those not interested in the plugin
  • and step by step instructions on how I have found it most efficient to go about the whole process.


Check Out My Fiction YouTube Channel

Tales with Tasha - YouTube

Each week we have a theme and so there will be something for all tastes.
  • 🎤Micro stories/ jokes as YouTube Shorts Monday - Sunday- for fun quick viewing
  • 🕮A longer story every now and then for story time, over coffee or before going to bed

Tasha's Social Media

📚Join My Newsletter📚


Receive 2 FREE eBooks just for signing up and a free short stories on Free Fiction Fridays.


Two books covers - one with a woman firing guns above the title "Assassin's Blood" the other with a woman screaming and glowing with the title "Curse of a Banshee"

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Author: Tasha Duncan-Drake
Posted: March 31, 2025, 9:37 am
Amazon eBook library page with "Download Kindle Books - The Faster Way" over the top

Kindle Book Download - The Faster Way - Before the 26th Feb 2025

So I saw a post on Tumblr yesterday, which I am sorry I cannot find again. It was talking about how Kindle are removing the download ability on the 26th Feb and one response mentioned a Tampermonkey script to help with downloading all of our Kindle books. If someone can point me to the post, I will credit the person who mentioned it - thank you.

Well the script makes it about half as frustrating to download everything as the only way Kindle provide it and it took me a while to figure out how to use it, so I thought I would elaborate. I went from being able to do 8 pages of books in a day, to doing 37 - I have another 20 to go.

Tampermonkey is a plugin for the browser which allows a script to be run to alter the page - spent a good hour trying to work out how to run the script because I thought Tampermonkey was the name of the author or something😆 . It can be found here: https://www.tampermonkey.net/

There is an FAQ about how to install it here, along with how to install scripts: https://www.tampermonkey.net/faq.php

The script to alter the Amazon download page is here: https://github.com/chrishol/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/main/download-all-kindle-books.js

The script puts a button at the top of the page on the right that says "Trigger Download" (seen in green below)


This button when pressed will do all the button presses for the downloads for you so you don't have to click everything yourself. All you have to do is confirm the save to your computer.

On my PC I can set it going, wait for the first save to come up, then click away and leave it for about 3 mins while I'm doing other things and then click save 25 times once it's done. Others have to click the save after 8-10 saves have been queued up or it sits there just waiting - not sure why, but it happens.

If the script does not work and the button does not appear for you after you have told Tampermonkey to run on the page, check the line in the top of the code that starts with

// @ match (no space after the @ in the actual script)


The script is set up for Amazon.com, so if you are on Amazon.co.uk like me, or another of the Amazon sites, you will need to edit this, to have the right amazon in the URL.

E.g. mine looks like: https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/*

The rest of the URL will be exactly the same.

The match line is basically telling the script what page the script should run on.

Also of note - in the code it allows you to change which Kindle device you are picking in the list if you have more than one. If your Kindle is first in the list, you're all set. If not, scroll down to line #77 until you find this part and follow the instructions in the comment:

clickElementWithin(dropdown, 'span[id^="download_and_transfer_list_"]'); // Choose the first Kindle in list // If you want the second Kindle in the list, change the above line to this instead (for the third, you'd change the [1] to [2] and so on): // dropdown.querySelectorAll('span[id^="download_and_transfer_list_"]')[1].click();


And those are the only things that tripped me up - so happy downloading. Hope it all works as well for you as it is working for me.



Check Out My Fiction YouTube Channel

Tales with Tasha - YouTube

Each week we have a theme and so there will be something for all tastes.
  • 🎤Micro stories/ jokes as YouTube Shorts Monday - Sunday- for fun quick viewing
  • 🕮A longer story every now and then for story time, over coffee or before going to bed

Tasha's Social Media

📚Join My Newsletter📚


Receive 2 FREE eBooks just for signing up and a free short stories on Free Fiction Fridays.


Two books covers - one with a woman firing guns above the title "Assassin's Blood" the other with a woman screaming and glowing with the title "Curse of a Banshee"

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Author: Tasha Duncan-Drake
Posted: February 21, 2025, 7:21 am
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