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I must be good

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 Better than Average According to my good friend and editor , Julia, who knows a lot about publishing . A self-published writer can only hope to sell about 250 copies of their books, so my 1,000 e-book sales for the Forgestriker series were way over the odds for sales. On another tack, but remaining on topic; I must be good as two writers I had contact with attacked me online to keep people from reading what I wrote. The first instance came in 2012 when the book shown above became an award winner . A person I used to chat online to, decided that my work was so exciting she had to sabotage it by trashing the book on every book site she had contact with, a little puerile for a lady in her mid-60s don't you agree. But, people do odd things when they feel threatened. The second incident occurred about eight years ago, here in Bristol , against my better judgment I decided to tackle my phobia of public speaking head-on. I hadn't spoken in public since my college days, and then o...