Life is settling down again. The excitement levels reached recently about the results for my book on Kindle have now subsided and I’m back to doing little jobs around the house and garden. Today it was the turn of the pool. Read more…….
Where do the days go? Seems like only yesterday I was writing Thursday’s blog. Mind you, looking at the last blog opening, I think I must have written it on Saturday. Anyway, yesterday I had four tyres fitted at the garage. By the time the job was complete, I was frozen. Read more…….
Picked up the car last Friday after its servicing to be told by the mechanic that my rear, left tyre was damaged. It had a split on the tread and a wire had broken through the sidewall. I remember doing it just a few days before. Read more…….
Back to some kind of normality this week. The excitement of seeing my book climb on Kindle Select has now died away. However, I have arranged to have NORTH SLOPE put on KS and to be promoted at the beginning of next month. During the week I arranged for a copy of THE BOY FROM BERLIN to be sent to Kelvin Mackenzie of the Daily Mail. Read more…….
I thought it would help my readers if I tried to explain once again for those who might have missed it, a little of the way in which we work at Acclaimed Books (AB.c). AB.c is a group of writers, six in all, who have been brought together by Peter Lihou (Rachel’s Shoe, Causeway). AB.c was Pete’s idea and he takes it on himself to provide access to Amazon and other outlets for our novels published as Print on Demand paperbacks or as eBooks and Kindle. Read more…….
I’ve had my head in the clouds over the last few days. I asked Pete of Acclaimed Books to put my eBook A COVERT WAR into the KDP Select programme and let it go free for five days. Basically, the idea is that you place your book with the Amazon library for 90 days, and you are allowed a promotion of five days where you can offer free, unpaid downloads of your book. My book reached No.3 in the Spy Thriller category Read more…….
How little things can make you smile, eh? A few days ago I began to get interested in KDP/Select. I wondered if one of my Kindle books would do well or not. There were a lot of posts on the Kindle forum about this new project of Amazon’s and some of the results were staggering. The idea is that you put your e-book in Amazon’s Kindle library and allow them exclusivity. You also allow a five days period where your book can be downloaded free. The results I’ve seen Read more…….
It was disappointment day for me yesterday. I received my sales figures for most of last year from Acclaimed Books. For some reason Amazon are pretty laggard in coming up with the royalties with the consequence that I owe AB.c money rather than the other way round. There’s nothing I can do about it because I don’t have direct access to Amazon sales because I am represented by AB.c. Read more…….
I didn’t get to VIVA TV for my interview because it was postponed. I have a promise of a call back, but I’ll have to wait and see what transpires. I’ve had a busy week though despite the cancellation. Thursday was our 52nd. wedding anniversary. Read more…….
It was a good birthday bash. Pat enjoyed being with her close friends and dining at her favourite restaurant. I didn’t let my hip problem spoil the event either. Altogether the day went down well. Four of our friends had travelled up from Andalucía and it looks like they have gone home to snow. Meanwhile here on the Costa Blanca the sun is still managing to shine (well, almost). Read more…….
