What do I expect?

 I would be happy for the blog to have over 100 readers

                                            Alan Place - The Writer

I am under no illusions, with amount of people writing a blog, unless I write about the current trend I will struggle for readers, should I compromise my principles to gain a following? 

Does anybody care?

Acceptance is the key

  Fewer readers

Alan Place - The Writer

It was ot easy, but I have to accept this blog will have fewer readers by 50% since the Facebook ban. This situation cannot be reversed, if the ban is lifted in five months, I am not creating a new profile, or recoering my old profile on the site.

My blog readers were falling before this ban, all I hope for is a slight increase, not that I think it will happen as I rarely post about a trend.

Coming Soon

 A new Modern Romance

Alan Place - The Writer

Over the next few weeks, I plan to refine this story, which is an extension of the previous story, A Homecoming.

This book is over 100 pages long, and is my longest single story since A Sailor's Love (which is on sale). My hope is that this story will sell, as it could kick off a series about travels around India.

The story is modern romance, with strong female characters as you'd expect in most of my recent stories.

The Price is too high

 A Better Site

Alan Place - The Writer

I have been exploring the cost of building an official website for my eBook sales platform for a while.

The upside is it could increase my sales having an official looking site, the downside is even though the cost ($9 a month) is minimal, it is more than I can afford.

I realise having an official looking page may improve sales, but it did nothing for me when I was on Weebly for years; I stopped using Weebly as I realised I was paying for the large number of readers the blog received, but I was getting no sales.

There is another disadvantage to having a site, I sell eBooks, and have only one book published. The cost of having that book published put me off attempting to have more published.

It is alright, being told by authors who can sell books that the sales income outweighs the outlay; they can sell their books whereas I am an unknown writer who needs to weigh each detail.