Penthouses and promotions

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 see her tweets about my work. You can look Jill up at http://www.jilledmondson.com 

Looking back through the week, much of it is to do with our intended move from Spain and my ongoing treatment for Lymphoma. We began our search for an apartment in the village and were shown round what was described as a ‘penthouse’ with a solarium. It was very disappointing: I believe the person who described it as such should take up a job as an advertising copywriter. We were offered good terms in view of the fact that we couldn’t give a firm end-date, but after a day or so we decided not to take it on. We will be looking at a ‘bungalow’ on Wednesday. One can only hope that the description is on a more prosaic level.

Sunday was our fifty fourth wedding anniversary. We had a lovely meal with friends at a local restaurant. We also enjoyed Skype and telephone calls with our family. Pat received a huge bouquet of flowers from Australia for her birthday which was five days earlier.

This morning I had a Cat-scan, and tomorrow I should find out what progress is being made before beginning my fourth chemo session.

Today the PLR results were made available. I was delighted to see that I had achieved loans of just over 3700. I look at figures like individual readers going into the library and looking for a Michael Parker novel, knowing they liked what they’ve read and want more. A large percentage of those figures were for the large print editions of my books. Thank goodness for pensioners (I assume it’s mainly pensioners who need large print editions). It’s a pity the UK government have forced councils to close a lot of libraries, otherwise I could have hoped for more loans. The highest figure I achieved, which was about three years ago was just over 6000. The good news is that the government has given the go-ahead for audio and e-book loans. This could lift my PLR returns. Let’s hope so. Wish me luck.