She Who dares!

In these dark times of recession, we rely on entrepreneurs to help lift us out of the financial doldrums and turn our economy around. A lot of us rely on the big guns like the manufacturing industry and financial services (they got us into it in the first place), but there are the small outlets and businesses who need a pat on the back for facing the problems and getting on with it, recession or not. My daughter-in-law, Bryony has been in book-keeping for many years and is now branching out on her own. She has been employed as a book-keeper for a small company which now has to close down. However, they have asked her to continue looking after the books for as long as she can until the axe falls. In the face of this, Bryony has invested a small sum in setting up her own book keeping business. She is extremely well qualified and hopes to attract small businesses to her website with a view to doing business with her. I think she deserves a great deal of credit for doing this, and would ask anybody out there who could do with some help in this direction to have a look at her website: www.oakleafbook-keepingservices.co.uk. I wish her all the best and lots of luck. She’ll need it!


Are things changing on Amazon? There is dissention in the Kindle Select ranks over the way in which Amazon uses algorithms to decide rankings and consequently sales. It’s all very confusing to someone as simple as me, but I can only go by what posts are appearing on the Mega Thread forum on the Kindle site. A month ago everything in the garden was lovely: writers were jumping through hoops (including me) over the free downloads and subsequent ‘paid sales’. Now there are a lot of disillusioned writers complaining that Amazon have not been straight with them. There are those who are actually planning to pull their books from the KDP programme. I get the feeling that Amazon is so big and unwieldy now; it has conceived and bred its own, almost unmanageable problem child.