Tying up Loose Ends

My viewing figures are going up. When I started this blog in October last year, I had about two readers. One of those was me and the other was one of my sons. I don’t know which one because I have four! They probably arranged to read my blog weekly, one at a time. But now the figures are creeping up and have reached as high as thirteen. Not massive by any means, but as the old saying goes: Big oak trees from little acorns grow. My wife and I are off to Australia in five days’ time. We’ll be visiting one of our sons who lives out there with his family, and we’ll also be calling in on some old friends in Adelaide. On the way over it’s a shopping trip at Singapore and on the way back we’ll have a look at Bangkok. We’ve got two friends staying at the house to look after the dog and cat, so we can feel relaxed about that because they have done this for us before.

So where does that leave me and my writing? Well, I’ve just had my HELL’S GATE paperback launched on Amazon, and will be running a little promotion campaign while I’m away. I don’t intend to push it until I get back from our trip. In the meantime, I’m preparing THE DEVIL’S TRINITY for publication. I have to scan the book because I don’t have the original file anymore. It isn’t too much of a problem, just slow, that’s all. I should have that ready for Acclaimed Books by the end of October. My son, Terry will be doing the jacket for me of course. At the moment he’s working on a revamp of the HELL’S GATE jacket. That might be ready before I leave, but it’s not that vital that he has it finished before I go.

I came to the conclusion that my priority for this year is to have all my books available on Amazon by the end of 2012. If I can manage that, then I can get on with my latest novel which is lying around gathering dust at the moment. The one book I can’t prepare myself is THE BOY FROM BERLIN, because Harlequin have the paperback rights to that and Hale, my publisher has the eBook rights; that will be available on Amazon in November. And although Harlequin will be publishing THE EAGLE’S COVENANT, I have the eBook rights to that. And that’s already been prepared for Amazon. So, with luck and God’s good grace, all my books will be available by year end.

I’ll try and slip in a short blog before we leave on Friday. Happy reading.