SHIVER ME TIMBERS

In the midst of chaos on all fronts my son's third book was submitted today and should be available within a few hours. For several days Amazon Publications has been in a state of complete disarray,due we are told to “a glitch”,which extremely technical term has been used for years to cover up the fact that no one knows exactly what is occurring!

Some say that Amazon has been hacked,others that it is due to the start up of Amazon Mexico. Whatever the reason it has inconvenience the authors mightily showing neither the correct sales figures nor the ratings,which statistics are the breath of life to those with books for sale.

Last night my sons sales figures began to reappear ,also his ratings ,but that is not the case for all on line authors. Further more there is no way of knowing if the “glitch” is now fixed? We shall see!

The new novel is the third in the “Starship Alamo” series and is entitled “Victory or Death”. T he beta readers ,to a man gave it rave reviews which is encouraging. The question is,will people be able to purchase it under the present circumstances?

Had not my son been going off on holiday on Monday I believe he would have delayed the launch,as things stand he wishes to have a clear field on his return to begin his new book.

This was to have been a medieval adventure but in the event he has decided that he needs to do more research and has chosen a swashbuckling pirate theme for his next work.

He has always been fascinated by buccaneers, the real ones mark you,it has taken much to persuade him to read “Treasure Island” . His book will I am sure be somewhat more visceral but every bit as exciting.

At home we have a birthday party to cater on Sunday and a friend texted this morning to say that he would be visiting us on Sunday.. typically everything is to happen at once. We are in the throws of packing for his holiday ,which means ironing,*** **!

Next week the men will come to dig up our sewer...what fun! With luck the problem with the water soluble sink sealant will also be solved before my son returns. I had hoped that these jobs would have been finished before he left, with the estates version of Laurel and Hardy doing the job I should have known better.

I begin to wish I had filmed the performance, it would ,I think have rivalled Eric Sykes famous film “The Plank”. My film would have also stared several prizewinning planks! Pity.