Amy J. Hamilton's Blog, page 5
January 1, 2017
Thought Good Reads had blacklisted me for a minute
...couldn't get into my account. But no, I'm still here. For now. (Yeah I don't care what you think-they let me back in-take it up with them, not me. I just tap keys and watch drivel arrive on the screen.)
Bloody hell. Am I allowed to swear? I clearly need mahoosive icons all over web pages. It's taken me so long to find how to put a new blog post up I can't remember what I was going to say.
I've been reading about book promotion today. How to do it, what to do, what works. I have come to this conclusion:
There are no answers and clearly the only way forward is old fashioned bribery and hope you know thousands of people. Unfortunately I know but a few...
The trouble is I write erotica (among other things, but for now it's erotica) Not many places allow you to promote that.
So here's some advice for people wanting to write fiction-murder people rather than have sex with them-you can promote that stuff ANYWHERE!
Disclaimer for the hard of understanding-at no point am I suggesting that anyone actually goes out and murders anyone. Typing this I feel as if I should take the condescending typing stance of a fullstop Between.Every.Word.
I'll leave it there. I am required to play Walking Dead Monopoly...
Buy this book: Modified: Lunar Medical Book 1
Bloody hell. Am I allowed to swear? I clearly need mahoosive icons all over web pages. It's taken me so long to find how to put a new blog post up I can't remember what I was going to say.
I've been reading about book promotion today. How to do it, what to do, what works. I have come to this conclusion:
There are no answers and clearly the only way forward is old fashioned bribery and hope you know thousands of people. Unfortunately I know but a few...
The trouble is I write erotica (among other things, but for now it's erotica) Not many places allow you to promote that.
So here's some advice for people wanting to write fiction-murder people rather than have sex with them-you can promote that stuff ANYWHERE!
Disclaimer for the hard of understanding-at no point am I suggesting that anyone actually goes out and murders anyone. Typing this I feel as if I should take the condescending typing stance of a fullstop Between.Every.Word.
I'll leave it there. I am required to play Walking Dead Monopoly...
Buy this book: Modified: Lunar Medical Book 1
December 31, 2016
How on earth do I categorise that year?
2016. I'm really not sure what to write about you. Yes I published an e-book this year. Privately it has been very well received by a number of people, for which I am very grateful. They will probably never fully understand what their positive comments have meant to me.
There have been deaths in the family as well as in the headlines. And there have also been some outstanding academic achievements in the family.
This year feels like an exhausting roller coaster ride that has either plummeted from a great height or instantly shot a hundred feet into the air whilst producing excessive G Force.
Who else is up for some calm, steady progress? I for one would like time to catch my breath. Have a great 2017.
There have been deaths in the family as well as in the headlines. And there have also been some outstanding academic achievements in the family.
This year feels like an exhausting roller coaster ride that has either plummeted from a great height or instantly shot a hundred feet into the air whilst producing excessive G Force.
Who else is up for some calm, steady progress? I for one would like time to catch my breath. Have a great 2017.
December 21, 2016
Greetings from another planet
It's the run up to Christmas so I'll be brief. (Everyone who knows me would be laughing right now. I'm really not known for brevity.) I am however ahead of the game this year. Presents are bought and wrapped. It's not even Christmas Eve yet! I have baked various things. Some of them are recognisable. The family have eaten most of them, so I'll have to bake more. But on the up side-I didn't poison anyone. And no-one has turned into a zombie, although two of the household are teenagers. I'm pretty sure they're still alive-body parts have not been littering the house as they wander around it. No zombie virus in the mince pies this year. Relief.
I've got one session left tomorrow morning and then my weight loss business will be closed until the New Year.
With any luck over the next couple of weeks I'll have a chance to knock out a few more pages of the second book in the Modified series.
At the point that I win the lottery I will be able to start writing full time. That means the second Modified book will get finished and I'll be able to finish the one about the paramedic and the cop and work on those other two characters that infiltrated my brain a few months ago. So that's next week then. The lottery is on Saturday and I believe it's my turn to win. Isn't it?
I've got one session left tomorrow morning and then my weight loss business will be closed until the New Year.
With any luck over the next couple of weeks I'll have a chance to knock out a few more pages of the second book in the Modified series.
At the point that I win the lottery I will be able to start writing full time. That means the second Modified book will get finished and I'll be able to finish the one about the paramedic and the cop and work on those other two characters that infiltrated my brain a few months ago. So that's next week then. The lottery is on Saturday and I believe it's my turn to win. Isn't it?
