Delays!!

          I was hoping that all of my ten books would be on Kindle well before this time, but we still have two to go: Are You Boys Cyclists? and TheBlissBook. Tempis fugit. It was the start of July when The Buddha and The Big Bad Wolf, the last one published,  was uploaded to Kindle. I've had problems with the computery things and getting a clean copy of the Cyclists book after it was scanned. Anyway, I'm going to start work on tidying the scan of Cyclists today and I can't see why the last two remaining books can't be on Kindle in the next two weeks.

          The eight books already on Kindle aren't selling, of course. Well, nobody knows they are there. If I didn't know who wrote them, I doubt if I'd be able to find them! They are selling at a rate of about one book a week though The Real McCoy, which is my favourite, hasn't sold any. It might not have been helped by spending the first month or so listed on Kindle as a play!

          In order to let folk know that you have books on Kindle and such like, you are supposed to spend a few hours every day on the computery thing, clicky clickying around other blogs, finding out stuff about book promoting and whatnot. You'd be as well having a job. As it is, I would have spent some time on the computery thing promoting these books, but I've had to spend three nights a week away from home for the past couple of months, and the place I've been going to (my mother-in-law's house) has no computer access. That plus the hold-up with Cyclists and TheBlissBook has stymied my faltering steps at book promotion before they even started.

          I must say that I don't really mind if I don't make any money from these ebooks. I've recently stopped work and have a wee pension to tide me over till forever. It is nice when someone reads one of your books and likes it, but that's not really why I wrote them. Also, self-promotion is something that strikes me as a wee bit naff!! It's okay if someone else was doing it, but going around telling folk to buy your book  ... I know they'd be better off reading Treasure Island which is much better book than any book I'm liable to write!!

          Part of me wants to just park these books on Kindle and forget all about books and writing, but I will make an effort to promote them for a wee while anyway. A netbook has been purchased. I'll buy a dongle on Monday and I should have a computer connection in my mother-in-law's house from now on.