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Penpals – Do You Remember Them? When I was a boy, and that was quite a while ago, writing letters, telephoning or sending a telegramme were just about the only means of communication over long distances. Middle-class children were encouraged to write letters, not that I was from that social group, and one of the …
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A Lonely Night in Fuengirola I wasn’t happy that night – an argument with the wife, or possibly a misunderstanding… she is Thai, I am Welsh and I know for certain that we still don’t fully understand one another, even after fifteen years. So, I went for a walk around the town where I live, …
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Non-English Books For My Blog I run this blog as an author who writes and sells books, but I have never written or tried to sell any non-English books. How would I go about it? Not the writing, I have learned seven languages to a high standard, although I am now rusty. However, I wouldn’t …
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Our Tenth Wedding Anniversary Yesterday, March 30th. was our tenth wedding anniversary. Well, one of them, anyway, since most foreigners who marry Thais get married twice and not necessarily on the same day. However, despite the two chances, neither of us would have remembered the occasion, if it hadn’t been for Facebook’s built-in calendar reminder. …
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Moving To The UK I am from Wales, the UK, and my wife is Thai. Those of you who read this blog will already know this, and we have to get back to the UK under European law, before Brexit pulls up the drawbridge in March 2019, because of my wife’s nationality, as those dear …
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Piracy and Google If you make anything that becomes successful, you can expect it to be copied sooner or later. In the case of physical goods, it can take a while to set up the plant and machinery to produce those copies and the contacts to sell them through. However, there is also the theft …
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M. K. Graff Hello, M. K. Graff, what should I call you? 1. My Name is: Marni Graff Website: www.auntiemwrites.com 2. Which country are you from? The USA. 3. Do you prefer to read a particular genre? I review crime books, so that makes up the bulk of my reading. I’m partial to police procedurals and …
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Using Keywords to Attract Interested Visitors As you progress with the establishment of your blog or website, one of the main things that you need to keep an eye on is using keywords to attract interested visitors. This is a major part of white-hat SEO, and it means using relevant keywords in your content to …
No Reply I suppose the phrase ‘No Reply’ can apply to several situations… phone calls, letters and emails, etc, but I want to talk specifically about email, since it is so easy to reply to… There is no need to put pen to paper or phone back in the hope that the previous caller will …
Returning To Old Haunts Returning to old haunts is said to be a guaranteed disappointment, and I am wondering whether that’s true… hoping that it is not. At least, not necessarily so… However, instinct tells me that the saying is true… Depending on how long the gap between the visits is, I suppose. I studied …
The weather on the Costa del Sol is usually fabulous. I love it in Andalucia! However, it can turn surprisingly cold around Christmas time!
Alexa Rankings Almost from the day I went online in 1996, or perhaps a few years after that, I discovered Alexa, which was a tool for ranking the popularity of websites. In those days, a high Alexa ranking was de rigeur and, so, highly sought after. I have sort of forgotten about my sites’ Alexa …
Getting Noticed Online The principle of selling anything on line is basically the same, so since my blog is about books: writing and selling them, I will use books – novels as my example. Having said that the big difference between selling most things on line is that if you are selling, say, bicycles on …
Literary Agents Past and Present It was only five years ago that I sought to have my first novel published, but a lot has happened, and charged, since then, making it feel much longer ago. It had taken me five years to write Daddy’s Hobby, and knowing nothing about publishing, I thought that the world …
December – My Month of Disk Work December is a strange month for selling books, I have always thought. I have tried to rationalise it many times… Many people try to get all their presents ‘out of the way’ before Christmas Eve, so paperback sales are governed by the postal service. In general, that means …
Promoting Books and Artwork is a necessary distraction for the artistically inclined. Some love it, but most loathe it. Here is a solution
Mariscal and Abogados is a firm of Spanish solicitors that provides lots of useful information on its website and not only in English
My wife and her friend worked in the Thai-Lanna Restaurant in Los Bolices, Fuengirola, southern Spain. Their boss ripped them off! AVOID
