Reading is for fun
Situation I have a number of books out on Amazon. Exclusively on Amazon, forsaking potential sales via other outlets to take advantage of Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited raised about 30% of my earnings until the recent crash in reported Amazon stats. Currently it stands at 17% for this month. I had also been involved…
The Last Day of June is approaching fast … By that, I mean the 30th day of the sixth month of the year. To celebrate I have heavily discounted the e-book AND paperback of the book with the same title!-In the UK that means the Kindle edition is at 99p and the real book is…
It has been a while since I last posted on this page, for that I apologise. Unlike many politicians, I am not going to say ‘but’ rather I wish I had posted more often. I have been busy writing though. I have published three new novellas and a short story. The short story, “Melissa. More…
I bought myself a new electric bike. We live on a hill, a long and in places steep hill, about a kilometre from the nearest bar (and the boulangerie). Being slightly eco, I prefer not to drive that short distance and go by bike, unless it is raining. Yes, I know a fairweather eco-warrior! Proud…
What is a writer supposed to do with bits of story, backstory and such like left over after publication? Deliberately Left Over Story A few years back I was working on what turned into “The Uncovered Policeman; Made For TV” when I discovered a chunk of the story was going in a different direction to…
Several people have asked about the setting for many of the Uncovered Policeman stories, L’Abeille Nue. It is entirely fictitious. The location as described in the book “Goodbye Blues.” The stream, the orchard, the buildings and the pool exist only in my imagination now that I have lost the sketch map I made when I…
June 2020 will see me in print in three different places! 1 Dark London Dark London is a two volume anthology of stories drawing on the darker side of the Capital’s streets and the people that fill them. My story that lurks between the covers of Volume 1, hidden between stories by Jess Popplewell and…
If You Must Know: A Novel (Potomac Point Book 1) Jamie Beck A tale of two sisters, one her father’s joy, happy go lucky take each day as it comes, nearly thirty-year-old Erin. The other, her mother’s little girl, sugar and spice and all things nice. Married, a baby on the way, a part time…
Started the month looking forward to meeting my American family in Florida. The month ended locked down in France, plenty of time for reading and writing. Dorelle’s Journey (The Cloud Lands Saga Book 1) Hannah Steenbock A nice tale of a warrior girl (Dorelle) and her fighting, talking and thinking dragon. Dorelle is a Dragon…
Caroline James Not that Hollywood, the one in Cumbria. For that matter, it isn’t the famous Hattie , Hattie Jacques either. Although, Hattie Mulberry is a larger, voluptuous and sexually aware lady of a number of years life experience too. She has been married twice, once to an Italian and then more recently and, all…
