passaleth: SOLITUDE and THE FARMED : "It is very difficult to promote and market a book if you lack the funds to do so, as a self-published author there is no guarantee that the..."

It is very difficult to promote and market a book if you lack the funds to do so, as a self-published author there is no guarantee that the reader will even wish to gamble on the possibility that a book or a story within that book is worth the time it would take for him/her to read the words, whats the point? I hear you say!! Well in my honest and truthful opinion, the reader will be drawn into SOLITUDE and will find himself thinking about the story after he has finished reading either the entire story or certain extracts held within. One reader has fed back to me 'here' concern that she had a very real and frightening nightmare, after she had read the whole book, that "Because I read your story, Andy, I thought, in my dream that someone was going to steal my soul!" Praise indeed. I can of course only imagine what goes that ladies mind at the best of times, however I am very happy that SOLITUDE had this effect on her, JOB DONE, as they say. But don't take my, ...

passaleth: Edan Corc : "Within the last two months I have suffered the torment of having my computer crash on me, the lesson learned was one of frustration, I had n..."

Within the last two months I have suffered the torment of having my computer crash on me, the lesson learned was one of frustration, I had not backed up the words that I had managed to accumulate towards my next book 'Edan Corc' but you know what in the end and on reflection I decided that it was absolutely fine. Being able to start afresh with the same idea but in a different way has only served to enhance my understanding that if I want the story to be read, it needs to be good enough to hold the attention of the reader. Sometimes disaster is its own silver lining, so I plod on regardless in the hope that my endeavour will not be wasted. AGL