Here I am at the edge

Free samples To read a  free  sample from the sequel to my  romance    www.amazon.com/dp/B075BJH2D2  /  www.draft2digital.com/book/235628    follow this link    disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-writingworld/the_sighting_at_masada/

Fahrenheit 451 With the growing numbers f young people playing online and using apps on their phones I can see the time when books will be banned as they are in the film Fahrenheit 451 based n the novel by Ray Bradbury . All I hope is I am not around to see the death of literature as we knew it; or perhaps it has happened already. In this world it is hard for an author, such as me, to make a living, the main ingredient needed is not talent or imagination but money.  Several years ago, I wrote an online serial based on the death of books in a world of electronic games, even though the science fiction  serial was free, it had few readers and I stopped writing it after two months.

An Amazon Christmas I am re-releasing some e-books that have not been for sale on Amazon    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007U50BOI   for months.

How to break the law and spread the Coronavirus. The next time you want to go on about Boris Johnson or his family spreading the virus by traveling, think again. This week, farmers in Kent are for thousands of people from Poland to be flown here to pick fruit, not only flouting the Stay at home and Save the      NHS  policy but risking the spread of the coronavirus .  While I can see the point in one way, this is a no-win policy, the farmers have paid for the flights, the people will need food and housing, so how can the outlay come to close to income?

Being optimistic If I were an optimist, I would say that from here "There is only one way my sales can go, that is up." However, I've been saying that all year while watching my e-book    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007U50BOI   /  https://www.draft2digital.com/book/235628   sales fall to a point where I lost interest in writing stories.

A treat for Christmas Treat yourself to my best-known  ghost story  www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00H4F38AI   for  Christmas .   This collection features a version of my story not seen apart from on a friend's webpage for a few weeks, it is both a  bargain  and something of a  collectable e-book .

Life can still hold a few curveballs. While the reply from  http://www.novum-publishing.co.uk/home.html   was not a yes, it was far from my usual rejection note. I saw myself as a writer , I never saw myself writing a romance novel , after all, if you believe what is online, men cannot write romances.

My e-book market I have been asked many times what made me write in the style of an American? The primary factor is that approximately 95% of my e-book sales      https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007U50BOI   and  https://www.draft2digital.com/book/62636   are in the  USA . The two highest compliments I have been given are I think like a Jew,     https://hereiamattheedgeblogspotcouk.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/compliments-come-in-many-forms/   and write like an American    https://hereiamattheedgeblogspotcouk.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/more-compliments/ .

Warning! I bring news that will shock people who read my blogs. My e-books on Amazon    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007U50BOI   may start to rise in the ratings in the New Year. For the first time in over two years, the e-books are not falling at a rate of 2,000+ positions each day. I have no answer to the question of why they have slowed their descent, but I am grateful.

Red Army Faction Many of the readers - especially in the US - will be familiar with the term "Arab Spring," it was a time during the Obama/Clinton era when the Middle East became the closest to WW3 as we ever came. However, I doubt if even the older readers have heard the term "German Autumn."  It was the Fall of 1978, I was in Germany, and the RAF (Red Army Faction) -AKA - Bader/ Meinhoff group had begun to fracture as their leadership changed with the death of the people it was named after had died in prison. NATO camps all across Germany were put on high alert status as death threats spread to US/UK personnel, like most terrorist groups the RAF made no distinction between "hard" targets - military - and "soft" targets - civilian. UK NATO personnel may as well have had Bulle-eyes painted on them as we were offered yellow Cortinas as the vehicle to drive, a more visible target could not have been chosen.  On one return trip from leave...