In the January 2019 issue of Premier Christianity magazine is a post by me – another published post– I realize it is only a Twitter tweet, but publicity is its reward .
Category: Writing
What has happened to Kim?
Something is bothering Kim in my romance, to find out what is follow my Christian romance.
Ebook sales to be donated to charity.
I have imposed prices, mostly nominal, on my e-books because I plan to donate any money from sales, from now until New Year to charities that help servicemen like me.
Here’s a surprise!
For the first time in months, Amazon leads Draft2Digital for my e-book sales going into week 2 of the month.
This is NOT indicative of how good Amazon is so much as how little I am selling on Draft2Digital these months.
The largest proportion of book movements on D2D is for free books 😦 Another reason I aim to stop writing next year.
He heals the brokenhearted.
I am more than brokenhearted; the last decade has destroyed me in personality too. I spent my life believing I could write stories would enjoy, what a fool I was!
The only reason I keep blogging is to keep my mind active, after this year, that won’t matter as I have given up writing.
It would be so easy for me.
At one time, the thought of not writing would have been an anathema for me to consider, but in the last three years all that has changed.
The main point of crisis is not that my e-books are not selling it’s because I feel I am not valued as a writer if I ever was. Whereas I once wrote three blogs a day and still found the motivation to write over 1,000 words for a story, now I struggle to blog once a day, and as for the stories, why should I bother?
I have many stories I could be writing, but most will never see even a blog post.
In the words of the song by Dolly Varden, “The thing you love is killing you.”
I have been through enough.
In the last decade, I’ve been through all sorts of trials and battles, and yet, I survived until now; I wonder if writing Christian stories can at least bring me inner peace when I am in need of some.
Did we do any good?
For three years, I wrote for the charity books for the Peacock Writers; we were a group of friends who chose to bring out our books in aid of children’s charities in the USA.
I often wonder if our work yielded results?
This could be the day.
This could be the day, that is what I have been telling myself for ten years; that desire to keep writing in the hope I’d get my opportunity to shine, however, I think I lost my moment six years ago.
I should have accepted the offer from Miami.
Six years ago, I was offered the opportunity to have a writing contract by a publisher in Miami; I turned the offer down, after weeks of second-guessing my decision I was still questioning what I did because at the time I was concerned that writing porn stories would damage my rep as a writer.
Now, at the end of my time, I think I should have accepted the offer even if the idea of writing for a publisher with few limits turned my stomach at the time. In the end, they were the only publishers who offered me a genuine chance to get published, what does that say about my writing?
Alan on the line 