Blue Monday

Sad day today for me. Two deaths that have left me feeling down in the mouth. The first one was the tragic death of Lee Richardson, one of the top Speedway riders around today. Former World Under 21 champion and Speedway Grand Prix rider, captain of Lakeside Hammers. Only 33 years old. I know motor sport is dangerous and claims the lives of many young people, but it is so poignant when you feel you know the man. He was my favourite rider and I always enjoyed watching him race. He will be sadly missed by his fans in UK and Europe. He was killed last night racing for his Polish team in Poland. A sad, sad loss.
The other death was that of a lady friend of ours, Doreen Bagnall. She had just come out of hospital after falling and breaking her leg. Last night she felt unwell and died. Most unexpected. In the midst of life….
Not a very uplifting blog today, I know, but you can only go the way your heart directs you. I would like to write about the great things that are happening in my book life, but in that direction I need patience. I also need to get my promotional hat on properly and make sense of where I post my book promotions. It’s all rather haphazard at the moment, but my colleagues at Acclaimed Book are putting together something that might help us all to co-ordinate our efforts.
For those of you who don’t have swimming pools in your garden, I’m sure you will be interested to know that mine is U/S at the moment. I have to fit a new control valve but need a few seals that aren’t generally available, so I’ve got to innovate and scratch around for some alternatives. I know: serves me right for having a swimming pool! More later.

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Gambling again!

Today is the start of my Goodreads giveaway. This is where I offer three of my books to Goodreads readers who will put their names down for the draw. The offer ends on May 26th. and the three winners will each receive a copy of A COVERT WAR. This will be followed by a three day, free promotion of the same novel, but in e-book format. The idea behind this ‘scheme’ of mine is twofold: Read more…….

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Weekend Away.

Had a good weekend down at our friends place in Almeria. They live in a small pueblo just inside the Andalucian Province set among the hills. The local town has a large ex-pat population with the inevitable mix of languages around the markets. We had dinner at a Spanish restaurant overlooking the hills. Read more…….

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Sunny days

We are basking in sunshine here on the Costa Blanca while the rest of Spain gets rained on. But Spain needs the rain probably more than UK because it is going through the worst drought for seventy years. One of the reservoirs up north is that dry a whole church has been uncovered. It’s a truism that there is enough food and fresh water on this planet for everybody, but there does seem to be an unhealthy imbalance along the way. Read more…….

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Compact Weekend

Today, ROSELLI’S GOLD goes free on Amazon Kindle for two days. The change in sales rankings is quite dramatic when a book goes ‘free’. Although the e-book hasn’t been sold but given away free, it climbs up the rankings according to some weird algorithm that Amazon use. My book has already shot up to 9229 in the rankings from its very low ranking yesterday of about 60,000. Read more…….

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Temperatures and Tempers

Weather is warming up. The rest of Spain is getting rained on hard, and a friend of mine was stranded at Bilbao because the ferries were cancelled as a result of the strong winds. He should be away by now though. Here on the Costa Blanca and elsewhere along the Mediterranean Coastline the weather is fine. Read more…….

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Monday again

Monday morning again and time to get on with the work that needed doing around the place. I had to move the car so I could get a long ladder up against the house wall to remove a dud battery from my alarm box. Then a quick clean around the pool followed by some weeding. While I was buzzing around the place, the song title; “I Don’t Like Mondays” came into my head, and I thought of the irony of life that was entwined around that song. Read more…….

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Who’s sorry now?

I’ve been reading a whole lot about e-books and the effect they are having on the big publishers, how Amazon are playing dirty and what the big guns must do to offset the ‘damage’ being caused by the digital age to their profits and their muscular control over the world of publishing. Read more…….

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Monday again and nothing changes

Monday again, beginning of the week and nothing has changed in this world that shows the human race is improving. The Norwegian nutcase goes on trial claiming self defence as his reason for murdering over 70 people. Meanwhile around the world the suicide bombers are murdering others again. Read more…….

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Unlucky for Some?

I didn’t realise it was Friday 13th, but here in Spain the Spanish do not consider this to be an unlucky day. I don’t know what date their unlucky day is, but I know it falls on a Tuesday. Do I believe in Friday 13th. being unlucky? Nope! But we all have good and bad days, and today I’m having a good day. Read more…….

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