November 4th

Like most Indie Authors, my days are divided between thinking, writing, book promotion and watching my sales rankings go up and down like a pair of trousers in a Brian Rix farce.

The thinking part tends to involve a lot of tea, chocolate digestive biscuits, cigarettes and staring out of the window praying for divine intervention.

Today though, the actual writing on the second book in The Stobes Trilogy (The Assassinator) has gone pretty well, resulting in a couple of thousand words which might not only survive the overnight test, but also help to get the book back on schedule?

Of course, a major part of the day - like most days - has been spent marketing and promoting my first book.

This part of being an author is like searching for The Holy Grail wearing a blindfold, whilst at the same time building a box girder bridge across the Atlantic using pipe cleaners.

The results of the two pay per click campaigns I currently have running, are not exactly tingling my furtleberries, but they have at least generated a few sales.

And whilst Twitter continues to help spread the word - thank you all my fellow authors and followers - I'm yet to be convinced by Facebook?

But of course, tomorrow's another day, and apparently god loves a trier :-)