So for 2 days (11/18 and 11/19) the kindle version of REFUGE will be free and I couldn’t be more excited.

I am sure there are some authors who write purely to make money but I suspect they are few and far between. When you think of the many hours, days, months, years it takes to write a novel you’d have to be mad to embark on it as a money making venture.

No, you write, or at least I did, because you have a story you want to tell and characters whom you love. I wanted to see where the story took mine -in many ways I was as surprised at the twists and turns that befell Noor and Charlie as people who’ve read the novel. I also realized that their story could not be told fully in one novel so there are 2 more to come and many hours, days, months, years ahead for me!

But you’re also mad if you write purely to write. The purpose of writing is to be read, otherwise it is a purely selfish task. If you truly believe your novel has something to say, that it can enthrall and move people, then it is your job to make sure it gets read as widely as possible.

I believe in REFUGE and Noor and Charlie’s story. I know many people have gotten utterly wrapped up in it and hope you do too. There’s probably no better way of enabling that to happen than to give it away free - what have you got to lose by downloading it - and so this Sunday and Monday I hope you do. I look forward eagerly to hearing what you thought.