I haven’t published a fanzine post for some time, but I have hardly been inundated with emails from people asking when the next one will be published. In fact I have had precisely nothing.
Pretty soon the survey asking people to vote for the DI Frank Lyle Mystery Series characters they would like to see interviewed on the blog will close and I will publish the results. Yet again response has been dismal, which leads me to the conclusion that most people really do not give a shit about my writing and characters. So be it! They can’t later complain about the content when they passed up their chance to influence it can they? Well some will while deciding what to write in their next 1 star review based on the free downloaded sample. Yes there are folks who do this, I have read a couple of reviews admitting it. My philosophy based on the famous George Bernard Shaw quote is known; those who can do; those who can’t write one star reviews.
Progress with Dead on Arrival is slow but sure.
I recently turned 40, the age at which life is believed to begin. Physically it’s downhill from here. Having children, assuming I wanted to, becomes riskier and the hot flushes start in the next few years. Oh joy!
In Dead on Arrival Jayseera Lyle turns 40. As yet I’m not sure how she felt about that. Frank’s decision to buy her a unique birthday gift ties in with the as yet unrevealed cameo artist’s appearance and to be honest, that will be one of the few light-hearted incidents in the book. I suspect that, like me, Jayseera enjoys the treats and presents associated with birthdays, but not the getting older aspect. I remember a time when I was a child and the age of forty seemed far off and anyone who was that age or older seemed ancient. As a disclaimer I wish to add that I did not intend for Jayseera’s 40th to coincide with the book I was writing when I reached that age, but that is the way it has worked out. Incidentally Almira Desai also reaches that age in this book. In the DI Lyle series we have reached the year 1993, where Frank Lyle will turn 50, but not in this book as it takes place in February and his birthday is in May. This makes him a Taurus; a sign which my astrologically astute editor Katrina Bowlin-Mackenzie says suits him.
All the DI Frank Lyle Kindle books are currently 99p/99 cents until the end of March so there is still time to download.
Speaking of Kindles I love my new one. It’s good being able to turn over just one page. I am keeping my old Kindle as it was a good friend for two and a half years.
I’m hoping that this coming year will be the one where the DI Lyle series gets the recognition I feel it deserves, but since I don’t have a spare few hundred pounds Sterling to invest in Facebook and Twitter ads as well as book blog tours I have a better chance of discovering Elvis stacking shelves in my local convenience store.. We can’t all be E L James where we send off an MS with a sub standard flimsy plot with two dimensional characters and sit back and rake it in. It sucks because I know people who CAN actually write decent erotica yet struggle for every sale.
Still I must get on as Dead on Arrival won’t write itself.
Pretty soon the survey asking people to vote for the DI Frank Lyle Mystery Series characters they would like to see interviewed on the blog will close and I will publish the results. Yet again response has been dismal, which leads me to the conclusion that most people really do not give a shit about my writing and characters. So be it! They can’t later complain about the content when they passed up their chance to influence it can they? Well some will while deciding what to write in their next 1 star review based on the free downloaded sample. Yes there are folks who do this, I have read a couple of reviews admitting it. My philosophy based on the famous George Bernard Shaw quote is known; those who can do; those who can’t write one star reviews.
Progress with Dead on Arrival is slow but sure.
I recently turned 40, the age at which life is believed to begin. Physically it’s downhill from here. Having children, assuming I wanted to, becomes riskier and the hot flushes start in the next few years. Oh joy!
In Dead on Arrival Jayseera Lyle turns 40. As yet I’m not sure how she felt about that. Frank’s decision to buy her a unique birthday gift ties in with the as yet unrevealed cameo artist’s appearance and to be honest, that will be one of the few light-hearted incidents in the book. I suspect that, like me, Jayseera enjoys the treats and presents associated with birthdays, but not the getting older aspect. I remember a time when I was a child and the age of forty seemed far off and anyone who was that age or older seemed ancient. As a disclaimer I wish to add that I did not intend for Jayseera’s 40th to coincide with the book I was writing when I reached that age, but that is the way it has worked out. Incidentally Almira Desai also reaches that age in this book. In the DI Lyle series we have reached the year 1993, where Frank Lyle will turn 50, but not in this book as it takes place in February and his birthday is in May. This makes him a Taurus; a sign which my astrologically astute editor Katrina Bowlin-Mackenzie says suits him.
All the DI Frank Lyle Kindle books are currently 99p/99 cents until the end of March so there is still time to download.
Speaking of Kindles I love my new one. It’s good being able to turn over just one page. I am keeping my old Kindle as it was a good friend for two and a half years.
I’m hoping that this coming year will be the one where the DI Lyle series gets the recognition I feel it deserves, but since I don’t have a spare few hundred pounds Sterling to invest in Facebook and Twitter ads as well as book blog tours I have a better chance of discovering Elvis stacking shelves in my local convenience store.. We can’t all be E L James where we send off an MS with a sub standard flimsy plot with two dimensional characters and sit back and rake it in. It sucks because I know people who CAN actually write decent erotica yet struggle for every sale.
Still I must get on as Dead on Arrival won’t write itself.