Things done and things to do.

I had my scan last Tuesday.
No dramas there and back home in time for lunch. Wednesday we picked up our
friends, Kath and Don, from the airport; back home in time for lunch. Thursday
was different: we drove down to Alfoquia in Almeria province to visit more
friends; Ray and Lynn. Spent a few hours with them and had lunch in Albox, then
departed for a small village up in the hills called Los Colorados. This was
where our niece, Becky was on holiday with her husband Jason and daughter Lox
(Lauren). We haven’t seen Becky for about ten years, so it was a wonderful
opportunity to see her and chat about all sorts of things. We left there early
evening and arrived home, no, not in time for lunch, but in time for bed! The
remainder of the week was normal of course: back to shopping and writing.

I had a book promotion last
Monday with BookBlast (Book Sends). I could tell by the change in my rankings
that the promotion was successful. One earlier than that also resulted in a
positive rank change. I’m in a transitional period at the moment (in more way
than one) and am in the process of transferring my titles from Acclaimed Books
Ltd. to my own account on Amazon. To date I have published THE EAGLE’S COVENANT
on Smashwords and uploaded it today on Amazon with my name as publisher. I
withdrew all my titles from the Kindle Select programme because it was of
little use to me and prevented me having the freedom to market and promote my
books in the way I felt was more beneficial to me; bearing in mind that I am
not a best-selling author. For
that reason I have no interest in Amazon’s new initiative: Kindle Unlimited. Now
that I have joined
Smashwords, my titles that are with them will also be available on Sony, Nook,
iBooks, B&N, Kobo, Scrib’d and Overview. I intend using their marketing
tools. At the moment THE EAGLE’S COVENANT is listed as free on their current
promotion which expires July 31^st. I probably don’t have enough of a
name with them (if any), but at least I was able to catch the tail end of the
promotion.
Hopefully I will have another of my fiction titles with them soon.

So what’s next? Well,
tomorrow is D-Day in more ways than one. I have an appointment with my
specialist and should be getting the results of the PET scan I had last week. Depending
on what she has to say, we will either be making plans to return to UK or
bedding down for the long haul in Spain. Wish me luck!