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[Judy]

Alex wrote: "I wrote a new article for Medium if anyone would care to have a read.

https://medium.com/@arcarver87/coping..."

Hi, Alex, I read and clapped; my husband had a mild stroke, and he has never been the same since..

[Carmel]

Alex wrote: "It's so distressing seeing the changes in someone you've known for a long time, and it can be hard to deal with it. It can sometimes be worse for those who haven't had the stroke than those that have."

You are so right, Alex. Sometimes being the caregiver is actually more difficult because you can't do much to help the person you care about with their suffering. That has its own pain and suffering.

[Carmel]

Alex wrote: "I wrote a new article for Medium if anyone would care to have a read.

https://medium.com/@arcarver87/coping..."

Working with medical people can be maddening. They mean well, and know a lot, but don't always do everything well or perfectly. I had to bird-dog my husband's treatment when he had to have open heart surgery a couple years ago, as they tried to prescribe things he did not need. Sometimes the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, and you have to be there to watch and ask and research yourself. Your mom is lucky to have you there to help with that.

[Erica]

My grandpa has been in the hospital and rehab home for 2 months now while they are trying to figure out his seizure meds. The brain is so complex that we don't know everything about it and it requires trial and error in many cases. While it certainly has been difficult on my Gpa, it has been equally if not more hard on my Gma. I have been trying to help when I can, but the near 3 hour drive one way and two little ones makes it difficult. I am glad that the specialist listened to you and I am hoping things level off soon, Alex. I am hoping you get better soon too, Amy.

[Kimberly]

Congratulations to everyone in their successes great and small. My great news is I have been nominated for 2018 Female Author award for my new book Beautiful,Strong Women:Poems of The Journey To Overcoming Domestic Violence. Fingers crossed that I win.

[Anita]

Kimberly wrote: "Congratulations to everyone in their successes great and small. My great news is I have been nominated for 2018 Female Author award for my new book Beautiful,Strong Women:Poems of The Journey To Ov..."

Kudos to you. Congratulations!!!

[Amy]

Well done Kimberly. Good luck. Hope you win.

[Carole]

Great news Kimberly. Congrats

[Michael]

So after a year of being on hiatus, writing randomly, starting but not finishing my bigger projects, I finally accomplished something. I finished my first story to be included in my sequel of short stories since I've moved to Texas!!! So happy.
I now have 7 stories ready for my sequel and need the final third for my first novella

[Dale]

Michael wrote: "So after a year of being on hiatus, writing randomly, starting but not finishing my bigger projects, I finally accomplished something. I finished my first story to be included in my sequel of short..."

Congratulations!

[Amy]

Well done Michael.

Here's my latest Medium article Close encounters of the wild kind.
https://medium.com/@debzcooper/close-...

Please clap and share. Thanks.

[Carole]

Clapped and shared!!

[Amy]

Thanks

[Michael]

I clapped, now to share!

[Judy]

Well, I didn't get into the local paper, the Sea Cliff/Glen Head Herald Gazette for publishing my book, Bonjour! Let's Learn French, although I contacted them several times about it.
My picture, together with the other jammers is on the front page for singing and playing in the Guitar Jam. "Singing from the Heart" is the title..."sharing a love for music"...
Oh, well, for now I'll settle for that!

[Erica]

Haha! It's something. Congrats, Judy. :)

[Carole]

Congrats!!

[Barbara]

Finished a TV taping for The Writer's Dream cable show that features interviews with writers...

[Carole]

That must have been fun!!

[Carole]

Alex wrote: "Carole wrote: "Congrats!!"

Moving along. Each day is different. Trying not to get stuck in things.

[Carmel]

Barbara wrote: "Finished a TV taping for The Writer's Dream cable show that features interviews with writers..."

Well that's very cool!

[Erica]

That sounds like fun, Barbara. Congrats!

[R.L.]

I went direct with Kobo a few days ago (took it off Draft2Digital) and sales are booming over there. Canada and Africa selling the most. Kobo is the leader outside of the US, so it was what convinced me to try it. If anyone is already wide, consider going direct with kobo and see how and if things change for you.

[Judy]

Erica wrote: "Haha! It's something. Congrats, Judy. :)"

thanks, Erica, it's something, better than nothing!

[R.L.]

Alex I uploaded the d2d ePub files since they create them and give them to you free regardless of if you use their service. And yes going direct worked like a charm. Unlike Amazon, they have built in promotions that cost from 0.00-10.00 where they take an additional 10% for the zero dollar option or whatever option you choose, it just depends and they have a TON of awesome promos for your books.

It puts your book on the front page no algorithm wizardry needed and you don’t have to play a cat and mouse game for visibility. The book has made more money in 3 days there than it has on Amazon for an entire month. Just play with your options. Your already wide, so there’s nothing to lose either way.

[R.L.]

Yup here it is. www.writinglife.kobobooks.com

[R.L.]

Lol technology...

[R.L.]

Your pen name

[Barbara]

Carole wrote: "That must have been fun!!"

It was! Linda Marie Frank is the interviewer. She and her professional staff put you right at ease.

[Dale]

My first two reviews of Ice on the Bay on Amazon are 5 stars, and the first one took me aback because the reviewer has a "Vine Voice" badge . . .

. . . which I had to click on to find out what that meant. It says, and I quote:

This customer is a member of Amazon Vine™ Voice , an invitation only program that gives Amazon reviewers advance access to not-yet-released products for the purpose of writing reviews. A review written as part of the Vine™ Voice program always includes this label: "Amazon Vine™ Review" on the initial product detail page and "Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program" when viewing the entire review. This is a permanent badge.

I don't think I know this person--Laurie Jenkins--from anywhere (although sometimes my memory slips a cog, so apologies if I do). Either way, it's got to be a Good Thing to have that kind of reviewer speaking so highly of your work!

[Dale]

Further to that last post, it turns out Laurie is today's stop on my blog tour, which is even better!

[Amy]

Well done Dale. Excellent result.

[Dale]

Amy wrote: "Well done Dale. Excellent result."

Thank you!

[Angel]

Please like and share my blog post of this feature article-interview I did on Alex R. Carver: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
Thank you!

[Angel]

Alex wrote: "Angel wrote: "Please like and share my blog post of this feature article-interview I did on Alex R. Carver: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...-..."

You welcome, Alex! Anything I can do to help my fellow indies. Hope it helps!

[Theodore]

Alex wrote: "Angel wrote: "Please like and share my blog post of this feature article-interview I did on Alex R. Carver: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...-..."

Great read, Alex.

[Angel]

Alex wrote: "Hooray, something good, thanks for the efforts of a nice and clearly capable lady at Draft2Digital, Amazon have finally added to the Inspector Stone Mysteries ser..."

Good to hear, Alex!

[Angel]

More authors have signed up for me to do Medium.com author feature article-interviews on them on my Goodreads blog. Who knew my idea would take off so quickly? I'm filled up for now. I will let everyone know when I can take more for the next round. Thanks to all who signed up.

[Eva]

Hi, Angel

Letting you know that I shared your blog post yesterday on FB.

[Chrys]

I'm really pleased to have put out a novella introducing people to my main series. I want it permafree everywhere, so could people help me out with Amazon? Please let them know of a lower price--free--for me.

Here's the book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ravens-Flight-...

Here's the book free on Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/rave...

Thanks for your help!

[Amy]

Finished typing up the first draft of Iridessian Haunts which I ended at a novella length for... reasons. I can throw that at Radish soon and then wait three months and chuck it at Amazon etc.

[Carole]

Good luck with it, Amy!!

[Amy]

Thank you.

[Carole]

;)

[Amy]

Sit rep from the SE of England:

https://medium.com/@debzcooper/the-uk...

[Carole]

Congrats on both accounts, Alex!!

[Christine]

That's great news, Alex! Living on the south Oregon coast, I only see a flurry of snow once in a while and it doesn't last long. Enjoy!

[Amy]

You're in the path of Storm Emma aren't, you Alex? It's just started snowing again here (SE England) at 3 pm. I don't think we've got more than three inches on the ground.

I'm pleased to announce that Sainsbury's managed to deliver the shopping this morning.

Even better than that, I've just hit publish on the last three chapters of Iridessian Haunts on Radish Fiction. In three months I can publish it everywhere else. I might want a new title. Annoyingly, it took me ages to come up with that one. I need something that describes a planet fighting back against human habitation...

[Chrys]

I'm in the Midlands--and my various meetings etc for this week have all been cancelled. My parrot has been thrilled to have me at home! But I'm getting tired of the snow, now.

[Amy]

Please tell me your parrot talks Chrys!

Yes Alex, I'm going to be relieved to be finished with Radish. I had high hopes, but I can't complete with people from Wattpad who have a built in following, they just don't put you in their collections unless you're already successful. And the majority of the books in the top 12 of each genre are free.