Monthly Archives: May 2013

Walking towards the light

Actually, I’m already out of the tunnel. All over now bar the result of my two day Kindle promotion. If you would like to read the book, ‘Hot Times in Goa’ by Linda Banana, you can download it in the … Continue reading

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Kindle grumbles

Update: June 3, 2013 I made a few mistakes with the formatting; OK, but there’s one thing about the Kindle version that I can’t do anything about and that’s the size of the various devices and readers’ chosen font. Chapter … Continue reading

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‘Goal’ turned into ‘own goal’

Yes; I spoke too soon, jumped the gun, ran away with myself. False alarm: an unexpected glitch is now preventing ‘Hot Times in Goa’ from being free as promised. Not just yet, anyway. I was going to say, ‘I don’t … Continue reading

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Goal!

I am sixty-five and a half years old today and have attained the only goal I’ve ever really had in life. That is, to get a novel published in my name – well, something approximating my name, anyway. There are … Continue reading

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The never-ending story (of my quest to be published)

The 6 May has come and gone and, despite the promise, Hot Times did not appear on my Amazon book page in its Kindle format. I contacted Createspace, who had made the promise, and, to their credit I have to … Continue reading

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To Select or not to Select

I have been assured that tomorrow is the day my book goes on Amazon in Kindle format. So tomorrow is the day I will finally decide whether or not to go Kindle Select. On the matter of the five free … Continue reading

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