Michael's Blog – January 2014 Archive (4)

The week has flown by as usual and no progress on my planned novel for this year, but only because of the project I have been working on lately. I thought I might launch a new website to coincide with this and was intrigued by the Wix.com adverts on national TV. I shouldn’t have bothered because it never works out the way you think. The website domain name would have included my user name which Wix decided would be mpmick0, goodness knows why. This preceded Wix.com, and my name was attached…

Apart from a promotion on Jill Edmonson’s website for THE DEVIL’S TRINITY, I have done very little towards my next novel, although I have pushed on with another project which I will finish first. I keep an eye on my book sales through NovelRank and hope to see some improvement in that title’s results. I must say though, that Jill Edmonson is pretty good when it comes to doing what she says by tweeting often about promotions submitted by authors. It costs nothing. I always retweet whenever I…

It has been something of a technical challenge for me this past few days, because modern technology strides ever further away from my aging abilities. I was reading a blog about improving your connection to the wider audience as a writer, and one of the suggestions was that I should have an e-mail subscriber list. Having just been asked by a contact on LinkedIn if I had such a list, I thought it would be a good idea to start one. Mail Chimp seemed to be the best one for me, so I joined the…

Somehow I have lost my entries between November 11^th and December 23^rd. Had to have been when I had PC problems and needed Windows 8 to be re-loaded. I lost a few things then.

December 23^rd.

As Christmas approaches we are getting close to that ‘looking back’ over the year time. For many it would have been average, but for me, and in some respects, Pat, it has been nothing like that. My book sales have improved, although not into…