One of the good reasons I wanted to get back on the Kindle Publishing site was to put my books up for free. Nobody is going to buy them otherwise! I don't need the money and if folk can find them and download them ... well, someone is going to read them. They are not dead.
So you can stick them up for free for five days every three months. Normally, you will get maybe twenty downloads from the eleven books on my page, so you get a couple downloaded per book if you are lucky.
Few people have downloaded my two books for 10 to 14 year olds. But I put all the books up for free for the five days starting with my birthday on the 8th of February. On the first day, Bugtown was downloaded maybe thirty times. What? This is weird. I guess maybe some teacher somewhere has come across it and got it downloaded for a class. It's been downloaded 47 times as of now.
I'm pleased that some folk will read it. I got lots of kids to read it when I was a school librarian, and told them it was written by Alison Main, so that the questionnaires I got them to fill in would be uninfluenced by me being the guy who wrote it.
I had a look at the entry on Kindle and read through the reviews I got from the kids at the school I was working at then. Remembrance of things past. The faces of some of the reviewers were still fresh in my memory,
I didn't manage to get a single agent to have a look at this book. Weird. But it's not what you know, it's who you know. But it doesn't matter. I loved writing the two kids books. Still alive in a way now.
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