Juggling My Hats

How did I miss posting last week? Perhaps I’m running out of things to say on my blog posts. But if I did that, then there would be no hope for me as a writer trying to contact his readers and anyone else who likes my work. So what have I been up to? Well, I finally completed my final read through of SHADOW OF THE WOLF. I increased the word length from 55,000 to a little over 60,000. This just scrapes in then as a novel. The final read through was done prior to copying it to a Createspace template, which will be sent to Acclaimed Books Ltd. This is the group of which I am a member and one of the ‘founders’. I like that word. Actually it’s a group of six authors who publish their work through AB.c. Makes things easier for people like me who live outside the USA and have to deal with tax laws etc. Anyway, I’m digressing. It was important for me to complete this, and to have it ready for my son to complete the book jacket. He always does a superb job. My next task is to convert the Word file to Kindle. This will then be forwarded to AB.c for submission to Amazon. Something else that has also imposed itself upon my time is my other ‘job’. Those of you who have read my author bio will know that I am a practicing Christian and worship at an English speaking fellowship here in Spain. The church is called TCF (Torrevieja Christian Fellowship). I was asked to bring the message (sermon) last Wednesday, and it took me a while to prepare it which of course meant I had to leave my book preparation for a while. The sermon was titled “How much further are you prepared to go?”. If any of you out there would like to hear what I had to say, have a look at www.tcf-spain.org. I promise you the sermon was well received: an absolute belter in fact. I wish my books could be as well received as that. So, after this I will get on with the Kindle conversion and then, hopefully I can begin (again) my next novel. This will be for my publisher and hopefully I will produce something that will be acceptable (there are no guarantees in this life!). So that’s it then. Wish me luck!