Anna’s Comments (group member since Mar 21, 2017)

Anna’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

The world seems to be going through some strange, anxiety-creating times: war, floods, fires, heat waves and more.

I hope you will hop over to https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... where you might find some reasons to be cheerful – and please add your own reasons in the blog’s comments and spread a little much needed enjoyment and, if you can, some laughter too.

This month’s bargain is an Amazon best-seller. 0.99 from 27th September to 3rd October or FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Louisa, a Goodreads reviewer says, "When a book allows me to become one of the characters....aahhhh, perfection!"

You might also like to know that is reduced to £1.77 and US$2.99 and other territories are cheaper than usual too. Paperbacks are US$7.25 and £5.95. You can sit back in an armchair and enjoy travelling to London, New Zealand, the Caribbean and to places you’ve never heard of and will never want to go to again. Why would any author write about places you wouldn’t want to go to ever again?

Has anyone heard from youwriteon.com?

Here in the UK we have channels totally devoted to showing programmes going way back. Films from the 1930s, sitcoms from the 60s and so on but I'd hate to be missing out on some of the new stuff coming through. I do hope it is resolved soon as many in this world love Hollywood films. It's reminded me that I visited one of the film studios when I went to LA for work. Fascinating.

Who would ever have thought that Hollywood would go on strike. Our refuse collectors have just voted to strike - but Hollywood?

I didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Theodore wrote: "I don't care what they say, Carole and Anna...you're both pretty good! LOL"

Thank you, Ted!

How about 'pretty' and 'good'? Shall we settle for that Carole? (Even if it's not always true?)

I dispute that - you are!

Ten years or so ago, YouWriteOn was a great help to budding authors. We posted something like the first chapter of our work and other members would assess it. And so we learnt our art. It's back - or will be soon.

https://www.youwriteon.com/

I'm posting it to a few groups - when I get the time - but it was brilliant. It helped shaped many writers' work.

The site is not open yet but is taking names and will no doubt go live once it has enough members. I highly recommend the old version and if this updated one is just as good, I'll be using it.

Theodore wrote: "Done"

Ditto

It was some sort of recommendation from Amazon as to what I might like to read. I was researching something and two of your books popped up - yes, great big pics - as I scrolled down. I was searching to see if I could pick out AI books (a quick 5 minutes with my cuppa) and Amazon decided I might like some help. I should have printed the screen! Anyway, I just thought you might like to know that they are giving you a helping hand.

Eldon, by the way, two of your books hit me in the face when I was looking at books on 'zon. Great big pics.

Perhaps we should all retrain as barristers as I foresee some big fees to these good folk as they prosecute or defend.

It's bad enough when someone pinches your title or comes close!

Pandora's Box comes to mind.

Anita wrote: "Have you noticed Goodreads reviews are now posted on books on Amazon? Not the individual reviews but the total and averages."

Yes, I noticed that the number of reviews on some of my books shot up. Then the other books have done the same. Yay!

I saw something similar but not so damning in a UK newspaper.

Time after time, you come up with winners!

Voted and many, many congratulations.

If you like ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, you might like this - or so I'm told: Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel

You are invited into a mystery and the world's best kept secret.

£0.77
$0.99
Ca$ 1.30
Aus$1.45
and similarly low-priced across the Amazon world. The paperback is also greatly reduced.

Why? The world is experiencing many problems including tough financial ones and the very least I can do is to offer a book at rock bottom prices.

Here's what it's about:

Chester, an investigative journalist, is in fear of his life and hides out in a remote part of New Zealand, 12,000 miles from Kate, the woman he loves. His quiet life is interrupted when a stranger knocks on his door and transports him to the world’s best kept secret. True to his training, he keeps a diary of his perplexing experiences, all of which he dismisses as impossible.

As his life becomes more alarming, his longing to see Kate grows. Yet how can he explain to her what he can’t bring himself to believe? After she reads his diary, she becomes his lifeline helping him to understand that he must warn others of the danger just like a lighthouse does.



Currently 4.76 rating on Goodreads
(my thanks to reviewers)

Good choice!