Going Global

A very strange thing happened to me yesterday, but the story begins last December.

I decided that it would be a brilliant move to publish some of my writing. I chose Smashwords to publish through because it would offer the widest range of downloadable formats for people to read my work on.

So far, so good.

Things went well and people responded in a positive way to my stories. I watched the download figures rise on a daily basis as more copies were read. I was pretty pleased about that. It was nice to know that people were reading the characters, situations and worlds that I had created.

Yesterday that took an interesting left turn.

I found out that I could view the locations where my stories were being downloaded and it blew my mind at how far away some of those places were:

Iran, Iraq, Canada, USA, Japan, Nepal, Russia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, New Zeland, Thailand, Turkey…the list goes on and on.

The thing that really amazed me was just how different these countries were. I was expecting the obvious English speaking countries like Canada and Australia but knowing that somewhere in the Peoples Republic of China my stories were being read…that's an incredible thing to me.

SO I would just like to extend my thanks to everyone that has downloaded and read my work. Your support means a lot to me and I hope you continue to read and enjoy my writing for many years to come.