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Free Books and Amazon I started a page on this blog called Free Books and, needless to say, it is very popular, receiving well over three hundred views a day. ‘Free’ is an extremely powerful word, so that is not surprising in itself. What does surprise many people is Amazon’s attitude towards free books. In …
Kindle vs Book If you are an avid reader, I am sure that you have heard of Amazon and its electronic book device called the Amazon Kindle? So, what are the pros and cons of the Kindle vs book? There is a problem with the amount of trees we use for paper and this has …
Revenue To paraphrase a TV advert of many years ago concerning my current revenue, I ain’t never seen a year like this one and I never want to again neither. Based on previous years’ figures and the fact that my stock of books keeps increasing as I write more every year, in January, I was …
New Books I’m going to blow my own trumpet in this blog post (for a change) and tell you about the twenty-two new books I have spent the last two days uploading to Lulu and Kobo. I have had pretty poor experiences with both of these companies in the past, but I will tell you …
Amazon Prime I am going to do something I’ve never done before: recommend a product. You’ve all heard of Amazon, I mean, who hasn’t, but they have a newish experience called Amazon Prime, which I have the logo of before, because I use Amazon a lot, but I never checked it out until today. Don’t …
Bugs and Viruses I was talking yesterday about the narrow escapes I had had as if it were all behind me, but it seems that bugs and viruses are following me about. How naive and gullible we, or I, can be! I woke up this morning to a small dialogue box on an otherwise white …
Computer Problems I have been working on the computer problems caused by Microsoft Office’s reinstallment all day, but I fear that it will take quite some time to replace all the little refinements I had built into my versions of the office suite over the last eighteen years. As an aside, when going to type …
Narrow Escapes I was playing a game of Contract Bridge with my Kindle Fire yesterday, when the screen suddenly went black. I thought that either the battery had run down without my noticing it or that it had crashed, since both have happened before. When I couldn’t restart it, I put it on charge. I …
Follow-Up on ‘Asian Shorts’ This is just a quick follow-up on ‘Asian Shorts’. A lot of the last seven weeks and nearly all of the last four days has gone into launching an anthology called ‘Asian Shorts’ which contains twenty stories by ten authors, so I was ecstatic to see a sale hours after it …
Kindle Fire HDX I wouldn’t say that I consciously resisted buying an e-reader, but I certainly didn’t rush into it either. However, I found a good reason for buying one last week and opted for the Kindle Fire HDX. I won’t bore you with the exact specifications, because you can get those anywhere, but …
How I Got Into Publishing Twelve years ago, I was the office manager of our family construction firm in South Wales. One day, my father came in, handed me a bag of papers, notebooks and drawings and said: ‘See what you can do with this lot.’ They were the automatic writings that had been …
I am just getting started with this new blog and so beginning to learn how to set up this template. It is fairly new to me, but it seems straight forward.. Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of time to devote to this task at the moment as I want to publish two books …
