Back on the Isle

Back on this fair isle after two days of celebrating and partying with my family in London – always big fun. Always exhausting! Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight seemed very empty after pre-Games London and the tourist season, which found us crammed like lemmings in the tube. Great thing about this island – nice and empty! But, did notice that there is a new Costa at the Portsmouth end of the ferry over to the island, so 20th Century life – in the shape of a ‘skinny latte’! – is following us over!

‘Eat the View’ is rising steadily UP through the Amazon/Kindle Charts! Hurrah! All that work and crafting and rewriting (getting notes from friends and my hub) and more rewriting and proof reading and yet more proof reading and FINALLY the little devil – well, monster of a comedy-epic based on my crazy two years in the deepest French countryside – came into perfect Kindle/Amazon form and is now out there, a freed ‘bird’ of a novel, flapping its wings across many nations who HOPEFULLY like my book! The reviews are great – so hugely encouraged! Perhaps it was all worth it.

People ask me if uploading onto Amazon was easy? Answer? It nearly cost me my marriage! There were very few guidelines so it was suck it and see and so, into the early hours of the morning, Tony and I uploaded, tested, reuploaded and FINALLY it took flight!

The hardest thing about getting a novel onto Amazon? Writing something decent! Writing is a craft, remember, so it all takes time and struggle.