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[Abi]

Got a book in you? Forget rejection letters or ‘vanity’ operations – in today’s golden age of e-readers, you can just e-publish and be damned.....

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[dande]

An interesting article, Abi, and you don’t often hear me being quite so positive about something published in Daily Fail Online!

Informative, also, for two reasons. Firstly I have set down just under 20,000 words of a novel which begins, not surprisingly, at the check-in desks at London’s Heathrow Airport over 14 years ago as we set off on our ‘adventure’ to move to Turkey. I, too, (again unsurprisingly) have received the usual batch of rejection letters but I am cautiously encouraged to know that J K Rowling and many other popular authors, who now have best-selling titles, also received dozens of them. Stephen King received so many he had to nail them a spike in his bedroom!

Nothing would ever persuade me to go into ‘Vanity’ Publishing and I haven’t written much over the past two or three years, but e-books . . .well? Think I’ll get back to the story! I do enjoy setting down our many experiences since moving here; there is so much to tell; so much to enjoy (sometimes only in retrospect!); so much friendship, kindness and humour – and not forgetting all the ‘waiting’ and the occasional frustrations!

Secondly, I didn’t realise you didn’t need a Kindle to download Kindle books but then what I know about the latest technology could be written on the back of a postage stamp with a broad felt-tip pen!

Thank again, Abi, for yet another link which really inspires me.

[Abi]

I'm soo happy the paper you love to hate has come up trumps for you at last. Hurray, I think it's a rare day that anybody gets published first time round, so I'm pleased to hear you have been inspired again.

I hope to see your e-book in the future on the internet as I always enjoy reading your travel posts.

[sunny]

I too am glad that the Daily Mail has pleased you at last.

I must say, having read some of Dande's work, he writes a good story.

[blackrabbitz]

I know someone who wrote a manual on technical writing and made something like 50,000 pounds on download sales, but that was over about 3 years.

[samanthaozkara]

Wow!! How did I miss this topic when 1st posted.

Thank you for a great link Abi. Unfortunatly I wont be writting my own book anytime soon as I dont have any imagination or book writing skills but on a plus note Im glad to see Dande have found something useful in the Daily Mail!! I never thought that day would come Woohoo!!!! I look forward to reading your book Dande x