Twenty going on Twenty One

Not me, of course! My books.

A week ago I published my 20th ebook, and now my 21st book – this time with a publisher – is coming out very soon and this one is special.

Both books have taken all of this year and some of the last. Writing, editing and all the work of self publishing takes time. Book no 20 was Cafe Haiku’s 5th yearly anthology – about relationships. Coming out of two long and very difficult years and teetering at the edge of normality never quite sure when another wave will push us backwards – its perhaps never been so important to write about relationships and poets from all over the world took up the challenge.

sharing my solitude is available as an ebook on Amazon.

This was a book which should have come out in 2020 but that was the year we got slammed against the wall. It wasn’t much better in 2021. Editors were sick, delays piled up and it was 2022 before we could get going. Of all my Kindle ebooks, this one gave me the most trouble. The file just would not upload. I spent a week trying and hunting on the web for solutions. None worked. Finally I stripped the file and reformatted the whole thing. To my relief that worked, whichever little book virus was hiding in there got scrubbed out and the file uploaded. Surprisingly the book went live in just about 2 hours. It can take a day or more sometimes.

So, book no 20 was published. Book no 21 is on the way, the work completed, final layout approved. Waiting only for the print run.

I will come back with that story tomorrow.