This year has been full of change with my books. I tried to spend longer writing and editing my books, to make them more polished, well I tried.
The biggest thrill was joining a local writers' circle, finding a fellow author just down the road, and going to meetings just to talk about books and the craft of writing. Something that I could never do in Austria, such a joy. I even took some the poetry I wrote in 1998, and they said it wasn't the rubbish I thought it was.
I did my first book launch with Lamplight to Sunlight, and did a talk on it at the Cynon valley museum. I have two talks with groups in line early in the New Year.
I went to Brecon show with the books, and that was a learning curve, I'm not sure if it's a good way to sell books, but certainly had some lovely chats with people.
Two book fairs, one of which I left feeling disgruntled. The people running it treated the main authors there as unimportant and but fell over themselves with the authors who did talks as if they were royalty. The upshot is that with my local writer friend, we're running the first Pontypridd book fair next May. We're funded by the great bookshop there, Storyville books, and I'm so looking forward t that.
I've helped a couple of authors with their books, and that's been an honour.
This summer, I was going to take a break, so God sent me another book, and I spent the summer writing my first full on Christian, no horse book since Tom, see above!
I've ideas for new books and feel God leading me to another book, and I've got a sequel to my latest one and a children's book. But Amazon sales this year are disappointing, I've yet to work out whether selling real books is profitable. The trouble is, I need to make a certain amount of money to keep the Rashbrook kitty happy. If it gets to low, I'll have to find a part time job, and I'd rather write books.
In the mean time, Happy Christmas and I hope you enjoy my books.
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