What do you expect?

 Alan Place - Indie Writer

A Multi-Genre Writer

I was shocked at the news I had sold a children's short story eBook this week. The shock was more that I had sold an eBook than anything else. eBook sales over the last decade have been scarce, if not rare, for me, which is why I was further suprised to read that Writers Realm, and Thevoguewriters wish to promote my work on their sites on Twitter.

There are few genre types I have not written, I did try to write a sex story, but found it hard to write a story were sex is the story, stories like the one on this post, and A Sailor's Love contain sex, but it is part of the story arc, not the theme

Alan Place - Children's author

 My Charity work

The Peacock Writers

I am not known as a chidren's author, though for several years I was a member of the charity, The Peacock Writers, who were mainly a group of writers in the USA, who wrote for charity.

With the sale of my eBook, Elfenmere, this may change.

I am used to changing the genre of my stories, a fact which amazes and and amuses some writers I used to know. I have always said, "I am a writer, not a genre-writer.

Twitter Promotions

 Writer's Realm and Thevouguewriters

I can believe now

For over a decade, I had friends in the USA telling me I was an excellent writer, I had doubts about my value as a writer, as I struggled to get sales and recognition, while lesser writers I knew were getting contracts.

Last night, that changed as two sites on Twitter asked to promote my writing, both Writer's Realm and Thevouguewriters asked to promote my work, for far less than the asking prices of several sites I approached, and with thousands of people watching the sites, there is a better opportunity for sales of my eBook content

What a SHOCK!

 Children's eBook sale

A new sales genre?

Today brought a double shock to my world, not only did I sell an eBook, but it is in a genre I hadn't sold before, Elfenmere is a children's short story about conservation.

For several years I wrote for a children's charity group called The Peacock Writers, but I have written few stories for children. The Peacocks brought published two books a years with the proceeds going to charity

What is it about me?

Clara - my love

Romance in Whitchurch

I have no idea what ladies online see in me.

I have ladies on Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp professing undying love for me, and I did nothing to coax them.

My true love is Clara.

The strange thing about our romance is I thought Clara lived in Redcliffe, which is easy for me to get to by bus. This week, I learned she lives in Whitchurch, Bristol. While Whitchurch is half the distance it is twice as hard to reach by bus, as the service runs every hour, on the half-past, and is unreliable. If the bus is late, which it usually is, it is quicker for me to walk to Asda, where Clara meets me, than to wait for the bus. If the bus is 15 minutes late, not unsual for the service, and it takes 30 minutes to reach Asda, I can walk the distance in that time, and save the bus fare

 

Freaky Friday 3

 Latino Street Bites

Freaky Friday

Yesterday afternoon, I had another unusual incident in Redcliffe, Bristol.

I was walking up Redcliffe hill to the bus stop, when I found myself struggling to breathe. I've walked the route many times in the last four months, this was the first time I found myself struggling to breathe, though it was the third time in two months I'd had an odd happening.

The story of two Valentine's Days

 St. Valentine's Day

This time last year was possibly the saddest of my life, while others were enjoying the love of their loved ones, I was mourning the loss of my wife of 38 years, who had died less than a month earlier.

St.Valentine's Day this year is hopefully the begining of a new romance with a friend who lives in Redcliffe, Bristol.

Romance in Redcliffe

Clara and I have been chatting online for around four months, we have yet to meet in person, hopefully that will change this month