1,000 followers on Twitter

 50+ ladies

                                       Fatal Attraction

This morning, my follower total on Twitter passed 1,000.

While a good section is young girls on sites such as OnlyFans, there is also a growing selection of 50+ ladies.

The older ladies have a better chance to win my favour, as always I cannot understand my atttraction to ladies, that could ne my charm, I never push myself

Back to the USSR

 Russia

Russia returns

For many years, Russia was the area where my old blog had the majority of its readers. I have no proof, my theory is this is because I could relate to the readers. never having had a lot of money. Yesterday, the situation was close to being repeated, with Russia coming third in the list of countries reading the blog. The UK came a lowly 5th behind the Netherlands (again).

Is it too late?

 I still don't believe what I was told

Alan Place - Writer of Ghost Stories

Despite being told many times that other writers consider my work as excellent, I still find it hard to accept.

My issue is a lack of confidence in my ability, this is borne out of a lack of sales of my eBook selection. I will clarify the situation, I never expected my selection to earn a lot, but I hoped they would have sold better than they did.

There were two main obstacles, one was I entered my award-winning book, The Chronicles of Mark Johnson, into a Kindle Free Weekend, in the hope it would boost its Amazon rating. The weekend did the opposite, the book crashed and didn't recover.

The other obstruction was that the magazine Abandoned Towers wanted to serialise the stories, but I needed some editing done, the person I asked, not only didn't do the task, she went online and trashed the book

There are stories I won't write

 Alan Place - Multi-Genre Writer

Sex and Violence

There are some areas of writing I will not write about, for several reasons.

I won't write stories were the main theme is violence. Years ago, I wrote a story for a lady who got her thrills reading about the spilling of blood during sex, a little rough sex, within reason is arousing. This lady knew no boundaries, where you it lead? Writing that story made me physically ill.

I won't write a sex story, I tried, but got nowhere. Several of my stories have sex in, but that is part of the story, NOT the theme. I found it too boring to keep drawing the story to sexual encounters, sex in my stories is sensual, not sensational, I won't go into intimate detail, or use some of the modern terminology

No thanks

Alan Place - Book Promoter

                  A little-known area of my Writing life

Many years ago, I devoted my time to promoting the works of writers, via my blog. What happened?

Two writers were awarded contracts from my blurb writing content, another in Queensland, Australia saw his sales rise from 20 books a month, to over 200. What thanks did I get,none. Not even a quick email of gratitude, it was at that point I decided to play hardball, and stop promoting other writers, after all, nobody promoted my writing.

I earned my reputation as a writer of ghost stories, before I came into contact with other writers. My reputation as a writer has been spread by myself, and now, after a 15-year struggle, I have made a breakthrough. I have a literary agent interested in my story, The Awakening.

In conversation with Rick Riordan

 Alan Place - Children's Author

Angels Cried

Yesterday, I was contacted by bestselling author, Rick Riordan, writer of the Percy Jackson series, about the charity book Angels Cried. In 2011, I was asled to participate in compiling stories for a charity book to send money for the Sandy Hook massacre. I have stories in other antholgies, mainly for the Children's Charity books written by The Peacock Writers. As these were for charity, we didn't expect a payment.

One anthology of this time features two of my stories, but this antholgy left a bad taste with the writers, though the book sold out at a festival in Phoenix, Arizona, in 2012, none of the writers who contributed saw a nickel.

In Praise of Older Women

 The Allure of the Older Lady

Secrets on Amazon

There is a line said by a minor character in my book, Secrets, which typifies my view of older ladies. The young man says "Are trees that have aged with time, not as beautiful as young saplings?"

Cinema is ageist with regards to ladies, once they get in their 40's, when many are at their prime, they get replaced. 

Mae West was at her best in her 40's, her last films, when she tried to maintain the glamour of her appeal were a disaster.

Some younger ladies, in my opinion, get better with age, Jenny Agutter is a good example of this