I’m off for a scan tomorrow, Monday. Before last week
I’d never heard of a PET scan (thought I’d misheard the word), but since then
I’ve seen it mentioned several times and have even spoke to people who have had
one. I will get the results in two weeks’ time when I see my specialist. On the
book front I’ve just had a three day promotion for ROSELLI’S GOLD. I won’t know
how successful it has been, but I expect to make at least one sale out of it;
maybe more. I have a promotion scheduled for a week tomorrow. This one is for
HELL’S GATE, which I believe is probably my best book, although of all my
titles, NORTH SLOPE sells consistently more. My current project is slowly
taking shape, but I have other diversions coming up. On Friday I will be
heading off to UK for the British Speedway Grand Prix at Cardiff, returning
Sunday. It means I will miss the World Cup final, but that’s something I have
to put up with. I will also be setting up a Smashwords doc for my book, THE
EAGLE’S COVENANT. It will be free of Amazon’s clutches after the 21st
because that is the date the Kindle Select programme finishes for that title. I
have had all my other titles taken out of the Select programme in readiness for
publishing them on Smashwords. I will still keep them on Amazon, but with
myself as publisher. Once I have THE EAGLE’S COVENANT re-published on both
sites, I will run a promotion for that. It’s an excellent thriller, even if I
say so myself. And even though I wrote the story several years ago, my forecast
about Europe was quite accurate. I sometimes wonder if it’s because the story
is set in Germany that it puts a lot of English and American readers off.
German police procedure may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but there’s a
similarity between all police organisations that readers will recognise.
I’d never heard of a PET scan (thought I’d misheard the word), but since then
I’ve seen it mentioned several times and have even spoke to people who have had
one. I will get the results in two weeks’ time when I see my specialist. On the
book front I’ve just had a three day promotion for ROSELLI’S GOLD. I won’t know
how successful it has been, but I expect to make at least one sale out of it;
maybe more. I have a promotion scheduled for a week tomorrow. This one is for
HELL’S GATE, which I believe is probably my best book, although of all my
titles, NORTH SLOPE sells consistently more. My current project is slowly
taking shape, but I have other diversions coming up. On Friday I will be
heading off to UK for the British Speedway Grand Prix at Cardiff, returning
Sunday. It means I will miss the World Cup final, but that’s something I have
to put up with. I will also be setting up a Smashwords doc for my book, THE
EAGLE’S COVENANT. It will be free of Amazon’s clutches after the 21st
because that is the date the Kindle Select programme finishes for that title. I
have had all my other titles taken out of the Select programme in readiness for
publishing them on Smashwords. I will still keep them on Amazon, but with
myself as publisher. Once I have THE EAGLE’S COVENANT re-published on both
sites, I will run a promotion for that. It’s an excellent thriller, even if I
say so myself. And even though I wrote the story several years ago, my forecast
about Europe was quite accurate. I sometimes wonder if it’s because the story
is set in Germany that it puts a lot of English and American readers off.
German police procedure may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but there’s a
similarity between all police organisations that readers will recognise.
One of the Facebook sites I follow, a site populated by
writers, I have noticed a fair amount of Sci-Fi, paranormal titles, fantasy and
YA. Naturally there are thrillers and romance too, but I do wonder if I’m in
the wrong game and should be writing about blood sucking vampires and men from Mars.
I couldn’t imagine trying to dream up a storyline that stretched fiction beyond
its natural limits, but then I suppose any fiction can be construed as Sci-fi
because that’s what it amounts to: it’s all make-believe. Might be fun trying
one day. Wish me luck!
writers, I have noticed a fair amount of Sci-Fi, paranormal titles, fantasy and
YA. Naturally there are thrillers and romance too, but I do wonder if I’m in
the wrong game and should be writing about blood sucking vampires and men from Mars.
I couldn’t imagine trying to dream up a storyline that stretched fiction beyond
its natural limits, but then I suppose any fiction can be construed as Sci-fi
because that’s what it amounts to: it’s all make-believe. Might be fun trying
one day. Wish me luck!
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