A Christmas Present as promised in my December newsletter. Here’s a list of the latest deals: –
Vinci has booked a 99c/99p promo for the first Freeman Files box set for the following dates:
26/12/24 Hello Books
27/12/24 Bargain Booksy
28/12/24 EReaderNewsToday
A Kindle Countdown Deal will run for 7 days from the 25th to the 31st of December. There will also be targeted Ads to support the reduced price. Keep your eyes peeled and take advantage of the reduction. What better way to use those Christmas book tokens?
Visit the Vinci Books website to see the current list of authors represented
(I call them the inVINCIbles.) https://www.vinci-books.com/
All 24 Freeman Files books will soon appear on Amazon, reformatted, with new blurbs and A+ content.
ROUTINES
I’ve always been interested in the daily routines of successful writers, and in recent months, I stumbled upon a handful that warranted a closer look. Like the rest of us mere mortals, some kept going until inspiration hit a brick wall. Others set themselves a specific number of hours or a certain number of words or pages for their writing. Each writer found the method that worked for them.
Charles Dickens had a strict schedule, regardless of whether the muse flowed. He sat at his writing desk at nine in the morning and refused to budge until two in the afternoon. Then, he set off on a three-hour walk in all winds and weather to consider the merit of what he had written.
Ernest Hemingway would stop writing at a point where he knew what was going to happen next. It meant he was confident of a rapid start the following day.
Joseph Heller always wrote in the evenings as an escape from what he considered the dreadful quality of American TV. Jane Austen started her day by playing the piano. WH Auden couldn’t commit to anything until he’d completed the Times crossword.
There’s always one who has to take things to the extreme, right? Jack Kerouac loaded his typewriter with a 120-foot-long sheet of paper so he could work uninterrupted.
2024 is fast disappearing, and it’s been a year full of challenges and changes. What lies ahead in 2025? Join me in January to find out.
Happy Christmas
Ted Tayler
