Well, we’re working on the website and it’s going rather slowly; it was so badly affected it will all have to be done again and re-entered. Everything. The website had always been left alone on other occasions. Anyway, when you’re doing two books as well as a new website, it’s bound to take time. I lost the website, host, and then computer totally. I had to pull the plug out of the socket in the end. So head well below the parapet.
But the novels are going well. I’m nearly through the second version of The Interloper, have the proof copy in front of me as I type. I think it’s much more immediate than it was and interestingly, The Interloper seems to be selling fairly actively, for my books, despite its alarming price. However, it does purport to be literature and that, in these modern days, attracts a premium, unless you are famous and mainstream are happy to take you. I get a thrill when my books gradually edge down towards ten pounds. Two of them are there and one below, but that publisher does do deals with the main sellers. The rewrite of Evenside goes from strength to strength, seems much more popular this time around. About fifty sites instead of ten or so on places like bookfinder4u.com. So that’s given me hope that The Interloper rewrite will take off as well.
Julia proceeds apace. I like it. It’s not my usual sort of novel, so that’s interesting in itself. The heroine is older than usual, but fear not, quite a bit under thirty and she’s repressed, not like my usual bouncy girls. But lots of fairly deep writing to get your teeth into; and remember, for those who are looking at the writing style and are nervous of the price, The Interloper new version will be available free on Lulu, who incidentally are now sending me notifications of my book sales. So the project moves on. As I said in a press release, it’ so small feat to try to get stuff inspired by Jane Austen around the world without paying someone to edit the book, do the cover and then print a large amount of copies, which one hopes to sell. That way of getting unusual work out takes thousands; and this project has a very small budget, and sometimes I nearly give in and spend a bit, but that was not the challenge. It was to push the publishing envelop as I said in a previous post and I’m not giving in. This admirable stubborness will not offend anybody, I trust, as it’s harmless enough and may eventually do a little something for literature. Well, bye for now, guys, my press releases and other blogs etc get lots of hits, thousands in fact, so thanks to all of you who are following this unique writing project.
