Nell Grey's Blog - Posts Tagged "magickal-fiction"

Solstice was downloaded 140 times over the two days it was offered free as part of its Kindle Select promotion - hopefully someone will read it and give it a star or two.

I wonder though, with so many free books out there, whether I can hope for actual sales in any significant number - perhaps not. As a risk-free way for readers to try out authors new to them it might work, although the 'Look Inside the Book' feature is usually enough for me as a reader to decide if I'd like to buy the book.

Only time will tell, I guess.

It's funny how often these things happen. I'd picked up The Cave by José Saramago and begun to read, and although it almost fell from my hand during the first two or three pages, after a while the style became easier and the characters began to come alive - a dog called Found provided the turning point. It's a slow book though, and may take me some time to finish.

I hadn't yet started re-editing Three Magic Women for Kindle, and had completely forgotten the way I'd written the first person narrative, so imagine my amazement to find that I'd not only given Una a strange way of speaking, but a similar Stream of Consciousness style with speech separated by capital letters rather than speech marks.

Again, that odd sense of reading the work of another author, but so far I've found very little to change. I think the style works well for Una's voice and seems to become invisible after a page or two.

It'll be good to have The Golden Web and Three Magic Women between the same virtual covers, and I'm looking forward to designing a new one when I've finished editing and formatting for Kindle.