Ups and Downs

Some people have good and bad days. Me? I have good and maybe not so good days. My week began on a good note because ENT posted my bargain book deal (ROSELLI’S GOLD), which resulted in 141 sales. There is usually a follow on effect from this, and my other title which was a bargain deal (THE DEVIL’S TRINITY) is still selling; something it was failing to do before the daily deal was posted on ENT. My not so good moment came when I realised that I was in a quandary about a decision I’d made earlier about which story to write. I’d decided that my thriller set in Mexico had to be set aside for another, totally different genre novel that had been running around in my mind for quite a while. I made some good progress on that, but pretty soon my thriller was knocking a hole in my head demanding to be put down on paper again. So I picked it up and dusted it off, but even now I’m not so sure. It’s known as ‘dithering’.

We attended a funeral later in the week which was a ‘not so good’ day. It was for an old chap from our church. We’d been visiting him and his wife for a couple of years. His wife died last year after a long battle with the big ‘C’. He succumbed eight months later. He was 89.

One of the elements of successful sales is good book reviews. But reviews do seem to be as rare as hen’s teeth. I keep putting out feelers, offering both print and kindle files but still have to see results. By that I mean people who have asked for a copy getting back to me. I don’t expect a five star review just because I have given a book away, but an e-mail to say the review has been posted would help. Trouble is I don’t like reading my reviews, but if I’ve asked for them I really have no choice.

I am about to publish THE EAGLE’S COVENANT in paperback for the European market. I can’t put this on Amazon.com because Harlequin Books have the English language rights to the book throughout The United States, the American territories and Canada. They will be releasing this in November. So the book will appear soon on Amazon.co.uk as a Createspace paperback.

Time now for other things like work around the house. Have to keep on top of it because it’s on the market and we want to sell and go back to UK. So maybe while I’m plastering, painting or weeding, I’ll be having a ‘not so good’ day. Wish me luck.