Sandscript
Kindle – The Honeymoon Period
When I received a Kindle for my birthday I vowed not to download hundreds of free books by dead authors – we have a house full of those already. Instead I enjoy reading about living writers on goodreads and elsewhere on the internet; downloading samples, buying books I wouldn’t have thought of trying.
How addictive it is; the excitement of pressing ‘purchase’ on the computer screen and watching the book title magically appear on my Kindle in seconds.
Some novels and story anthologies I have really enjoyed, others bring a laugh; the story set a thousand years ago in which one of the characters says ‘too much information’, the book which hasn’t quite come through the self-publishing process, whose first page reads
‘ Copyright2014A.N. Nymouswith grateful thanks to my wonderful wifeChapter OneIt was a dark and stormy night….
Best of all, Kindle is the insomniac’s friend, at the bedside or under the pillow, no need to turn the light on. If you do drop back to sleep it saves your place and switches itself off.
When I received a Kindle for my birthday I vowed not to download hundreds of free books by dead authors – we have a house full of those already. Instead I enjoy reading about living writers on goodreads and elsewhere on the internet; downloading samples, buying books I wouldn’t have thought of trying.
How addictive it is; the excitement of pressing ‘purchase’ on the computer screen and watching the book title magically appear on my Kindle in seconds.
Some novels and story anthologies I have really enjoyed, others bring a laugh; the story set a thousand years ago in which one of the characters says ‘too much information’, the book which hasn’t quite come through the self-publishing process, whose first page reads
‘ Copyright2014A.N. Nymouswith grateful thanks to my wonderful wifeChapter OneIt was a dark and stormy night….
Best of all, Kindle is the insomniac’s friend, at the bedside or under the pillow, no need to turn the light on. If you do drop back to sleep it saves your place and switches itself off.
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Sandscript
I like to write first drafts with pen and paper; at home, in busy cafes, in the garden, at our beach hut... even sitting in a sea front car park waiting for the rain to stop I get my note book out. We
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