Temperature 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. I got my knuckles rapped for a reply I posted on a forum (Amazon). Someone wanted recommendations for military thrillers and the like. I recommended A COVERT WAR. Seems I broke the rules: authors weren’t allowed to promote themselves on that particular site. Trouble was; the response I got from the person who used a pseudonym was quite pointed. Accused me of being unscrupulous, sleazy and other unmentionable things. Anyone would think I’d been found guilty of posting some child porn on the web, whereas all I did was respond innocently to a perfectly straightforward question. I deleted the post, but why couldn’t my mistake have been pointed out to me kindly rather than using colourful prose? I’ve asked Pete Lihou (Acclaimed Books) to put NORTH SLOPE back on Amazon. It’s been my most successful POD and Kindle so far. Hopefully it will continue to soar now that the errors have been eradicated. Four days now until ROSELLI’S GOLD goes free. I’ve got my fingers and toes crossed for this one. Tomorrow we’re off for the weekend visiting friends in Arboleas. It’s a small town about ninety kms. from Almeria in the province of Andalucia. We visit them regularly and they come up here as well. The good thing about these visits is that we can take the dog with us. Poor cat has to fend for himself for a couple of days. We have a neighbour popping in to make sure his food bowl is full. It has never been a problem in the past, and he hasn’t complained yet. Back on Monday and another squint at the sales figures which AB.c will post tomorrow evening. More then.