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Michael's Blog – February 2014 Archive (3)

Mixed Bag For Michael

So, what’s been happening during the last week for me? Low book sales; struggle with Amazon; dash to see the specialist and grappling with my current novel. I believe there is a traditional slump in on-line book sales after the Christmas period because so many people have received iPads, Kindles etc. from their loved ones, and have downloaded more than their average weekly dose of books. Some, perhaps the majority would have gone for best-sellers, while others may have taken advantage of the…

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Added by Michael on February 16, 2014 at 9:24am — No Comments

Websites, Plans & Schemes.

My latest website is almost complete. My son took it upon himself to get me out of a jam and has built a new site for me. It isn’t finished yet; still a ‘work in progress’. Thankfully he will be over here in Spain in a few weeks, so we can do some work on it together. What I really mean is that he will show me what to do. I’ve been on the site and thought how good it looks. If I do manage to get to grips with it; I should be able to change it as I go along, developing my creative skills as a…

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Added by Michael on February 9, 2014 at 7:57am — No Comments

Another learning curve.

It has been quite a week one way or another. I successfully uploaded a non-fiction book to Amazon Kindle (more later), secured a property to rent for our forthcoming “homeless” period in Spain and endured another chemo session. Oh, and failed spectacularly to upload a decent cover of my non-fiction work to CreateSpace. The process of uploading a word document to Amazon is fairly straightforward using their free guide. The conversion was effortless, and apart from a glitch in the final…

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Added by Michael on February 3, 2014 at 8:00am — No Comments

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