Free uploads of 'Calandra's Spring'.

The 'sale' of my book on Kindle for free today continues and is a steady trickle of downloads.  This has lifted my amazon.com rating considerably but I wonder how quickly that will drop after I am again charging (a small amount) for my months of work!?

It seems that writers rarely hit the big time or even the middling-small time enough to make a living unless the book is sponsored from the start as some kind of 'corporate' undertaking. Of course, the sacrifice then is that, to some degree, you have to toe the company line and your writing becomes a mouthpiece for some robber baron (at worst).  I've been in those shoes for many a long year as I have worked as a writer, technical writer and corporate and enjoyed the discipline of it, but felt it most gut-wrenching when matters I wrote about involved retrenchments and sackings.

However, it paid for my kids to go to school, learn a musical instrument and travel.  And I always tried to make the message optimistic with some direction towards a remedy.

Formatting solution for Kindle

If you have uploaded a book and then been disappointed when you have checked it on your Kindle (or had feedback from readers criticising your format)  this may be a solution:

For those of you who asked, this is what I noted. 

I have a Macbook Pro (2009)  and initially used Microsoft Word to write my books.  I thought that saving as a PDF would do it for a Kindle upload, but no, the formatting went out the window but looked OK in the preview.  So, what I did was go to my bookshelf, choose the book for reformatting and choose edit from the actions menu.  Previously, I had re-saved my beautifully formatted file as an html file.   Then I re-uploaded it.  This kept the format (with hard page breaks and indents).

Hope this helps you!

FREE book! Today and tomorrow only!

My book, 'Calandra's Spring' is on FREE promo listing at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IX4NI2
Please feel very welcome to download and any reviews or feedback  are gratefully  received!

Incidentally, Kindle reformatted the book so that it was a disaster but I worked long and hard on it and now it is fine. If you bought the old version, re-upload this one as it is formatted correctly.

Enjoy the read!  It is an adult book but some older YA readers will enjoy it.  There is some racy sex in it but probably nothing that our young adult kids haven't seen in Twilight. 

'The Other Side of Nowhere' needs reviewers

If you are in the mood to read and review this book, please let me know and I will send you a copy.  It's always hard to get someone to read, especially with a long work and one that is for Digital publishing only, but I would love some feedback!

The Other Side of Nowhere is on Kindle!

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My latest book!

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Releasing ... The Other Side of Nowhere.

Proudly announcing the release of 'The Other Side of Nowhere' now available on Kindle, at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009G8A66U

This is my second book and is somewhat of an experimental work, being a linked set of narratives which could stand alone and are somewhat episodic.

Try it and send me some feedback!

My second book is available on Kindle.

This is new, new news!  I just uploaded my second novel, 'The Other Side of Nowhere' for Kindle purchase and while the cover is only a temporary one (I have a short video to embed and it won't let me :-( so may need to add that later!) it is ready for reading as soon as amazon says so!

Watch this space and I will post a link direct to amazon as soon as possible.

Very excited to see it happen and will look into the cover possibilities and replace that when I can afford to get a professional design.  Not cheap!