A day to celebrate for me and a day to say thank you to you, all my readers. While the number 500 is nothing for the authors supported by big publishing houses for me, a self published author to have got 500 ratings and reviews is a big deal, so than you all who read and took the time to post a rating or review.

I am also delighted that the average rating has slowly climbed (average of 3.90 a year ago and now 3.94). This probably reflects an improvement in quality and again thanks for readers who have contacted me to suggest areas for improvement which I have taken on board. So keep these comments coming and perhaps next year I will get it up to 4.

And as well the total number of downloads and sales keeps growing - something around 80-90000 downloads to date and about 7000 paid sales - again this feels good as a self published author though I spend the money as fast as it comes in on cover designers, editors and the like.

Anyway I just wanted to record my thanks to all you Goodreads readers out there who have contributed to these results.