P.D.R.’s Comments (group member since Mar 06, 2017)

P.D.R.’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Big hug to you all.

Thank you for those kind wishes. With my offspring all far overseas it's really nice to have my writing colleagues send me best wishes, makes me feel less alone!

Ah! That's kind of you. Thank you.

Let's hope I manage another few writing years now I have time to write. I've stories queuing up to be told.

Whoopee! I've made it to my fourescore years and ten!
So Happy days to everyone and for readers from
1 a.m. 25th of May to 1 a.m.29th of May all my novels in ebook form: 'Jacob's Justice', 'Tizzie', and 'Bittersweet', will be on sale for £1.99 pounds or $1.99 at Amazon and Smashwords and Kobo.

There are more people in the British commonwealth than there are in America and we all have our own unique idioms and expressions and we usually spell the British way.

If we can accept American books, which we do, it seems only fair for Americans to accept our books.

We Kiwis and Aussies also have a problem with people not understanding that our Christmas is summer and hot and our June is winter and cold. There have even been cases of our books given bad ratings because the reader didn't understand the southern hemisphere and snowy June.

Thank you, Dale. I'll take you up on this shortly. Actually I want to update my Tizzie blurb so here is what I have. It needs refreshing!
CURRENT BLURB
There's no slavery in the Yorkshire Dales, not in 1887, not ever. But loving families use artful schemes to enslave the innocent. Twenty nine year-old Tizzie is such an innocent. She has worked herself down to skin & bones as a dairymaid on the farm of her dear brother, Jack, his Scottish wife, Maggie, their three boys & one girl, Agnes. Expert at many things, though not in spotting conniving entrapment, Tizzie longs to see that young Agnes will not suffer her spinster fate. In trying to help Agnes find an education & avoid a life of drudgery in their male-dominated world, Tizzie begins to suspect & then uncover Jack & Maggie's treachery, & the family's plots to enslave & use up Agnes too. With only her wits to guide her, Tizzie tries to right years of wrongs & set Agnes free.

Hello Ruth,

are you all read out? My new novel Bittersweet is in need of reviews for Amaxon.
I can let you have an e or print copy.

Short blurb
Bryce Ackerman returns home from a business trip to Vienna expecting to marry his beloved Aimée. But she is pregnant. This is 1872 and Bryce is a Victorian gentleman who doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. Aimée is distraught. So-called ‘officers and gentlemen’, on leave, visitors to her home, have been making a game of rape. They have been running a competition to see which regiment’s junior officers could rape the most young women. Whilst Aimée, and Bryce’s Quaker mother and friends carefully seek out the violated girls and women, offering aid and support, Bryce, outraged, begins to hunt down the officers.

They have returned to their regiments in India. Bryce follows them intent on revenge for Aimée, and justice for all the victims, but it is no easy task. The officers will do anything to escape retribution and Bryce has to survive in the exotic and erotic atmosphere of India. It is a task which test his own sexuality and his ability to put personal vengeance on one side and secure justice for all.

Marvellous thank you! Keep your head up CeD.

Anyone care to help me out and follow? I am about to follow everyone in the list above me!
Cheers
p.d.r.
You're all followed!

Thank you for this info. I'd love some reviews of my new novel so will try them and report back too.

Sorry I missed this. Thank you for being such a helpful and kind hearted author. IT WAS A GREAT IDEA.

Sorry I missed you! And thank you for being such a helpful and kindly author. That was a great offer.

Carole, I'm new to Ingram. I like their printed book, think it's a much better product than Createspace's.

How do you market your books with them. Through their magazine?

Actually in the British Commonwealth, which means me in New Zealand, we are told not to bother with this paying for a copyright certificate lark. That it is unnecessary and just a way to make writers fork out for something they already have.

Copyright is quite clear in the law. Once you commit words to paper then you own them and therefore they are copyright to you.

Mind you America is not a signature of the Berne and Paris and UN copyright agreements is it?

Found a couple more sites as I look for reviewers, by courtesy of Shaun at Bookmarketing tools.com

The Book Blogger Directory - (http://bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress...)
This site maintains a large and comprehensive alphabetical listing of the web's best book
blogs organized by genre.
The Book Blogger List - (http://bookbloggerlist.com)
This site features a large database of book blogger sites. It is organized by genre.

My pleasure. Writers helping writers is always useful. Jason just asks that writers use the site and then add their results!

I'd like to help out too but am not quite sure how! I've signed up.
How do I find the other blogs?
How do I get the info re the authors here and their books for my blog?
Can I copy the info about an author and the blurb from author's goodread pages with a bit of a twist and polish up?

Sent you an email, Prakash.

I'd turn your blurb around. Start with Zack then the police, then the village. Do you mind if I chop it about for you?

Another email on its way.

Most of you probably know this site but for those who do not it's a place where writers have been noting what enewsletters/websites they've been using for sales pushes and which ones work!
You want the Indielisters part of Jason's site. Some of you might enjoy his newlstter too.
http://www.jasonbladd.com/indielisters/