Here I am at the edge

Chronicles of Mark Johnson Award winning book  Last week I started to edit my award winning e-book Chronicles of Mark Johnson .  Grammarly   While checking the stories with Grammarly, I found numerous errors. This is the problem when you decide to go back after improving your style - and my styling has improved radically - with the help of my good friend Julia Petrakis .  Sales record    You may question the validity of re-writing an award-winning book after three years. The editing is validated by the fact the book has had no sales since the award in October 2012.  This triple book edition will be a better-composed edition of the first two series of stories, plus a series that is in the work-in-progress stage. Nothing to lose   All I have to lose is my time, and being disabled and not being a TV addict - I have a lot of time to use. Will the effort be worth it?   Only the readers can decide. As fo...

Memorable people  True Heroes    People talk about sporting heroes, but to me, a hero is required to do something good, not just play sports and get paid well.  First World War   During WW1, my late grandfather was enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regiment. I had the opportunity to keep a record of the battles he fought. Owing to a row with my late mother I lost that when I said my aunt Joan could keep his field glasses - on which he'd etched the battles he'd been involved in during the war.  I can remember he took part in   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypres#World_War_I , sadly, I never had the chance to find out which battle he was involved.   During the engagements he has bayoneted and the fact he wore a helmet saved his life - he had an indented skull until he died in 1974. My book  https://www.books2read.com/u/4AYDJ4   is written as a loving memory of a generation whose lives were changed beyond belief. I...

They're off  Sons of Baal  I'm sorry, I put the wrong image up, but it got your attention.  The race - if there is a race - continues this month with Sons of Baal taking the early sales lead.

All gone in a blink Amazon ratings    It took me several days to climb from the bottom of my rating to a monthly high point, and in the blink of an eye it was all gone - and more. Such is the fickleness of the rating system on Amazon.

Exclusive  Amazon    I am putting my work  on Amazon , I found them to be the only reliable service. Draft2Digital    From this month, my work will not be available on Draft2Digital   https://www.draft2digital.com/book/ .  This is because the firm hasn't paid my royalties for several weeks, and I doubt they will. Barnes and Noble    I used to use B&N, but not any longer. I found out that over the decade I was using the site, they had issued over 1,000 of my ebook content FREE . For eeach one sold, they gave two out free.

Kobo Three years    Shortly after I signed on to Amazon 's site, I joined a site in Toronto  called Kobo . I thought this site would be a good addition to my sales outlets https://store.kobobooks.com/search?Query=Alan%20Place&ac=1&acp=Alan%20Place  - I was wrong! It is three years since I joined Kobo, and as I haven't reached the $10 minimum I haven't earned a dime.  The situation is so dire, I am at the point where I am willing to buy my own books, so I can get something from them and end this torture.  If I reach $10, I won't be putting any more books on this site. My main sales outlet is Draft2Digital   https://www.draft2digital.com/book/   and their link to Barnes & Noble . 

I am still good Erotic romances    Years ago, I used to write erotic stories for lady friends - with their consent - I would presume to write an erotic romance for a lady unless I had her permission.  Even in those days I was a good writer, the stories were so good that they were able to give the lady's full sexual pleasures.  None of the stories mentioned exists as I sent them in private messages to my former friends. Oyster  Last year, the book showing here was banned by the publisher Oyster for being too erotic. I find the banning of Sexual Explosions amusing as A Sailor's Love  is far more arousing than Sexual Explosions , and yet that wasn't banned. Could it be the mention of the "S" word got the book banned?