Queen for a day

A short story in tribute to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. If by any chance she sees it, I hope she enjoys it. I did wonder about using the royal coat of arms in the blog post, but I understand you need permission and I’m quite attached to my head. ‘You’ve got to be there, Gran. …

Marketing and ABC Destiny

First of all, thank you to everyone who responded to my questions last week, including the members of the Facebook online writing group during the blog posting day. You’ve probably heard me say it before but I love writing and hate marketing. I know all the theory and how things should be done, and that …

Author anniversary and Amazon Categories

When my first book was released, I assumed authors wrote a book then sat back while royalties flooded in from everyone who had bought it, and the publishers did everything else. Expecting to sell millions of copies under my pen name (because all proper authors use a pen name, don’t they?) it was quite an …

Workmen and book reviews.

A fellow author on Facebook posted a snippet of conversation between two ladies which angered her, but I found rather sad. The gist of it was they would not read any book which had less than 1,000 reviews. It was also a dig at Indie or self-published authors and the smaller publishers. The lady who …

I got flowers today.

Shall we have a short story for a change? I got flowers today. It wasn't my birthday or any other special day. We had just had our first argument. He said a lot of cruel things that really hurt me. I know he was sorry and didn't mean the things he said, because I got …