Here I am at the edge

I can't understand how the weather forecasters on television keep their jobs. Two days without rain and they call it a heatwave. If they'd checked online reports from Spain they would have seen the Spanish Plume brought torrential rain, not the sun 🌞🌞

At the bottom and looking up. I decided to give 1 in 3 stories away that I write for Draft2Digital, there is no difference in doing this to putting them online to be read. If I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, I'd try to hang on, but all I see is the dark ahead.

Heading back to US Science Fiction. Four years ago, I had no intention of being classed as a bestseller , especially in the Science Fiction  genre. After the success of my series, https://hereiamattheedgeblogspotcouk.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/my-bestsellers/ , I did think of moving away from SciFi, but it's what I write well, and it sells, so how can I change?

A frightening calm. I should be excited and nervous at the possibility of my book being published, but I am not, why? To save myself from disappointment, I try not to get too positive in my thoughts, that way I don't get too upset when nothing happens. If I get the contact and a request for more stories, then I will get nervous.

Readers, not buyers. As I have given up hope of selling my work, I am putting a lot of my stories on my friend's Disqus page    https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-mncmyneutralchannel/murns_request/ . At the present rate of one or two a day, assuming I don't write anymore, I have enough to see me into the new year.

Time to relax with a good book. Unlike some authors, I don't get a boost with Christmas sales. My boost used to happen at this time of year until last year. The slump that began before Christmas 2017 continued until February this year and only stopped for a month. It's soul-destroying to be a writer and put some many months into a book that won't sell.

Supernatural romance comes home to roost. There isn't anything tame about this romance  https://www.draft2digital.com/book/187095  between a young lady, and a mysterious stranger with a hidden family secret and supernatural powers. 

To Elfenmere.   I did plan to add this story into  https://disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-indieworld/a_fantasy_begins/# , but the plan got out of hand, so it's available as a stand-alone story    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007XX5LVU

Jack of many genres. I have been a writer for over a decade, and I earned several reps for my work. I wonder how my readers view me as a writer? One thing I say is how you see me depends how on how long you have been reading my work. In all this time, few people have told me how they see me as a writer.

A romance in the college. A few years ago, I surprise myself by writing a  Young Adult romance  hereiamattheedgeblogspotcouk.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/a-ya-romance-from-me/    If the book had sold, I was going to extend the story, isn't that the story of my life, IF.

The news is no surprise to me. The news I have twice as many readers for my  blog  in  Brazil  comes as no surprise to me. I'd have more success catching a camel in the Arctic than getting readers in the UK .

Bargains to come You can't beat a bargain , and my pages of Apple  https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-curse-of-the-deballiers/id1161177924 are full of them. With a new ebook due out this month.

A lucky bag for the readers. Readers on my page    https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007U50BOI   never know to expect from me. My Amazon bestseller    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CJKK84   is a vampire story. But there is also a Victorian mystery story based on a real mystery    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007T943OO

Back to nature. It has been so long since I had time to sit and be calm with nature, I'd forgotten the joys of Spring and watching the bees and butterflies    disqus.com/home/discussion/channel-indieworld/the_search_for_fairy_rings/#

A changing world for the young. Joe West was sitting in his garden admiring the bees at work when his wife called him, "Joe, it's Roger from the club. He wants to have a word with you." Joe eased his tired body out of the deckchair and ambled across the garden to the door to his kitchen, as he passed his wife, Mabel, he gave her a hug and a kiss and said, "I have an idea what this is about love." He went into the kitchen and picked the receiver off the table, where Mabel had left it, "Hello, Roger, what's on your mind today?" Roger Shipman, the treasurer of Hambling Cricket Club, replied, "We'd like you to come to a specially organised meeting tonight, Joe. The members have come to a decision and want to put a motion forward." Joe smiled, and replied, "You put the beers on, and tell "em" Joe'll be there." "Thanks, Joe, it has been an awful day for me thinking how I'd ask you." "I can i...