Here I am at the edge

Pinterest I don't often promote my  Pinterest   pages because they have very little to show for my efforts. The link to this post is for one of my pages, keep watching as I will be adding more.

A double rise in Kindle ratings. There have been no sales for my e-books this week, but there has been a double rise in the Amazon kindle ratings; this is an occasion in itself as I can't recall the last time it occurred.

African horror to come Akuji- Lord of the Underworlds  Free reading   This is the opening to one of my projects, the intention is to write a story of adventure in the style of Rider Haggard, like my Amazon second best selling book Did we see him?  Did we see him?   DWSH was based on a true mystery, this is fiction , or is it?   In the land of Akuji believe everything, for anything is possible. Akuji - Lord of the Underworld. "Akuji, how I wish I could forget the name, and the untold terrors it brings back to my tormented mind; alas, once heard, never forgotten. Before I proceed to tell you of the terrors I had the misfortune to witness, let me introduce myself, and explain how I came upon the name which has tormented for so many months. My name is Gregory Harding; I am the executor of my late uncle Charles Palmerston's will. You may have come across one of his works, Did we see him.  The book was a popular read among the well-to-d...

  A few days ago this was released on Amazon, I don't advise you to get this copy as it won't be as well edited as the Draft2Digital version, which I hope to issue by the end of the month.  Why distribute inferior work to Amazon, you say?  The answer lies with the facts that first of all with having books on the retail giant for years which have not sold - why should I bother with them? And also, I no longer care what happens to my ratings, the books never sell on there. They are as useful to me as Kobo.  In over three years discounting Holding Richmond I have sold about 30 books and seen only $11.Out of the sales of books deduct 13 for Nerja and 11 for Did we see him? and you can see why I left the site.  As I stated a few days ago, this is (!) my last book on Amazon, so, why should I care if it rockets or bombs out?  D2D is not the reason for leaving Amazon, as previously I was willing to sell my work through Paypal via my blog as early as the be...

That is a question I have asked myself many times over the last eighteen months. Holding Richmond hit the ground running -- Okay, seven sales in one weekend is a good start -- but the book entered the sales forum at the height of the "Twilight" craze. At the end of 2012 HR hit another good spell and sold a further seven copies in three months. I got pilloried on one site for showing vampires as being unsexy and vile creatures of the night. As I said at the time, my vampires are based on the German Nosferatu played by Max Schreck Anything less like "Twilight" I cannot imagine, there is nothing sparkly or sexy about the vampires in Holding Richmond. These creatures of the darkest fears of mankind are loathsome. Is that a reason for the books success I wonder? People got tired of sexy, young and sparkly things and went back to the 1920s imagery.  I make no bones about it -- I like B&W films of this era -- and many of my stories are written in this style, whet...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007T943OO  Today if the anniversary of the launch of my joint second best seller at Amazon. DWSH tells the story of a Victorian gentleman who goes in search of a lost explorer and finds himself returning as a time traveller. This short story, designed to be a one-off for a contest in the UK has spawned a follow-up "Did we see them?"

Did we see them? The Charlie in the title refers to Charles Palmerston, the hero of the book above.  The intended short story Did we see them was intended to be a sequel to this mystery, I decided to stop the story after about 20 pages, even though I could see the story going on for a lot longer. The reason I stopped was my usual one, I was arrogant to think the original story would sell, which it has not. One day, I may find some motivation to start again, but that depends on readers buying some of my  ebooks    https://www.draft2digital.com/book/ selections.

This popular one-off story will soon become the leader for my series "The Timely Adventures of Charles Palmerston." Now in an extended version.  It will be available from Kobo and Amazon shortly, and at a slightly cheaper rate from me.

 The books above will be available on Kobo in 3 days time, thank you

 Before you start saying. Is he just being arrogant as a desperate sales measure?    Please read the article below. This is about the stories and is not a cheap sales pitch. While writing Did we see him? I got so involved in the story, that the creatures in the jungles and the hunt for the souls of the dead took over my mind and gave me bad dreams.  While writing both Hunted Down and re-writing it for the multi-buy, I was so engrosses in the story, I was giving myself the shivers writing about the weird things happening and had to take regular breaks to ease my mind. In the end I had to curtail my imagination as I was close to crossing into the Chronicles zone, when the stories were based in the 1940's.   Writing the second series of Chronicles was really harrowing for me, friends who knew me at the time were really concerned that my mental state was going downhill rapidly. This series was my way of purging myself of a bad time ...

Did we see him? is still rising in the UK Amazon ratings list :) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Did-we-see-him-ebook/dp/B007T943OO/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1351467891&sr=1-1

A few months ago, I wrote that having watched the UK ratings it appeared to me that the rise and fall was in some way connected to the effect of Dockland Murders. Over the last week or so it has been more effected by the performance of Did we see him? This is good, I still plan to write the follow up Did we see them?

The Amazon rating system is a wonder unto itself. Last night my book Nerja sat at 945,000 and was waiting to be pulled from sales AGAIN. The my friend Norbeth bought a copy and it now sits at 114,000 without a doubt my best ranked book on both sides of the pond LOL http://www.amazon.com/Nerja-ebook/dp/B007ODWS4C/ref=la_B0076M5BNG_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1342350562&sr=1-9 But by a long way not the best seller, that honour still resides with Pat Canella ( the dockland murders) not only because she has been on sale the longest as for a great length of time she did nothing. Her position was secured by a sales of 5 at the end of May. The next nearest are Holding Richmond and Did we see him?

This is such a shock, last week I was amazed that a book cracked the 100,000 in the USA. Today I saw "Did we see him?" has shot to 39,383 in the UK. I have no reason for this as there have been no sales. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Did-we-see-him-ebook/dp/B007T943OO/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 http://www.amazon.com/Did-we-see-him-ebook/dp/B007T943OO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340449574&sr=1-1&keywords=Did+we+see+him%3F

A Victorian mystery story. I wrote the  short story entitled  Did we see him?   The story is based on historical facts; in the early 1930s, Sir Percy Fawcett led an expedition along the Amazon river but never returned. Some of the prevalent theories at the time are mentioned in my story. After this story, I started another steampunk story called Did we see them? As the sales for DWSH never amounted to much, I left the sequel unfinished after about 30 pages.