Happy Easter/Frohe Ostern Everybody! Wishing you as many chocolote eggs in your basket as your tummies can cope with!

Inundated with client work, so no time to complete final chapter of my Merlin epic at the moment. Argh! So frustrating. Among all this client mayhem I did at least manage to sign up to and get approved by Articlebase.com, where freelancers can publish articles under their own name. Although one doesn't get paid for it, it seems like a good site to drum up potential client interest in one's work. The site does allow a small amount of self-promotion and links to one's work. It all helps with ebook sales in the end.

My poor little laptop had to go into "laptop hospital" for repairs - to be without it was really, really difficult. Now it's back and I'm already inundated with article writing requests from clients. For those of you who want to sell their articles without the bother of bidding for work on sites like elance or guru(dot)com, there are various article marketplaces, where you can upload work according to editorial guidelines and sell directly to clients. Try http://www.articlesales.com or https://www.contantcontent.com or swarmcontent.com, if you have article writing experience.

A short update on my Copromote campaign for my ebook "Master of the Foxhunt", a 56,000 word novella set in the late 19th century, featuring an avenging ghost:
My original Tweet (Fancy a slice of romantic Victorian ghost story at $0.99? #ebook #MustRead #fantasy Master of the Foxhunt is out! http://awe.sm/uOXJ)

has so far been passed on by 56 Copromoters to their network of 252,454 Twitter followers. This gives my own Tweet a boost of 5,600%. I keep running out of credits all the time though and having had my laptop out of action for a few days hasn't helped either. Had this not been the case, by now I would have had a reachof ca. 300,000 Twitter followers.

My Merlin & Arthur adventure is nearing its end, sniff, and I should be able to upload the final couple of chapters over the next few days. It's been a long journey and I'm sad to see the fan fiction characters I've created go...but am also excited that this will free me to finally start my very own Merlin/Arthurian story, an epic in 13 parts/books that will quite possibly take me the remainder of my life to write. But hey, what else would I be doing with my spare time?

Also close to completion: The Little Book of Ghosts; am finishing off a couple of short stories that will go into the mainly non-fictional book. The Little Book of Halloween only requires an article about championship pumpin growing, then it's also done. Yay! Due to the problems over artwork inclusion inside the book here at Bookrix, it is doubtful that I'll be able to publish them via this platform, but I'll try to upload in a different format from the last time, perhaps that will work. Otherwise I have to find a different publishing venue for the books that will have images inside, which would be annoying.

This week's been quite horrible so far! Earlier this week my laptop seemed to have trouble loading Microsoft whenever I turned it on. I attempted to run a diagnostics with a "safe" mode logon command, but everything went black and horribly wrong. Thanks to my lovely friends who choose the right spouses and boy/girlfriends, namely computer experts, I have been able to get all my files back and my Microsoft problem fixed. It's been a few anxious days though and it will take me quite some time to catch up with client work and writing those final chapters of the various book projects I've got simmering in my writer's cauldron at present.

Eeek! When I started my Copromote boost for my ebook "Master of the Foxhunt" on Friday, I had just under 200,000 credits on my account. This morning, after 35 loverly Copromoters had retweeted by sales link for the book, reaching more than 211,000 of their Twitter followers, I only had 581 credits left! What a start to the campaign, and nearly two more weeks to go! I also had a good response to my Wordpress blog post about what inspired me to write the story and what inspired the cover ("Fox Hunt", a famous painting by American artist Winslow Homer). I shall take this as a good omen that eventually my traditional ghost story "Master of the Foxhunt" will sell reasonably well.

On other matters: I signed up to https://www.featureyourself.com yesterday, which is at present in Beta state with only a few subscribers, but it looks really good. I hope it will take off. It's free to sign up and you are allowed a huge amount of "space" to feature yourself, promote your work and anything else you feel is important to you.

Phew! What a great start to the latest Copromote boost for my latest ebook "Master of the Foxhunt"! More than 100,000 Twitter followers reached thanks to my lovely Copromoters retweeting my sales link to their followers. And I've gained quite a few followers with this campaign already. A very good result all round:) Fancy a slice of Victorian ghost story - published just in time for Valentine's Day, it's easier on the hips than a box of chocolate, but just as satisfying at a mere $0.99!

Yay! My ebook "Master of the Foxhunt" has just become available on iTunes. Great, now I can start another Copromote campaign and hopefully get some paying readers...

I made good progress today with the final chapters of "Merlin fan fiction - Let the Questing Begin" and feel relieved that the book will now finally be concluded after such a long time in the making. Irritatingly, my other book, "Master of the Foxhunt", still hasn't been approved for sale yet, which is rather strange, as Bookrix & Co are usually so quick getting ebooks off to a good start. Probably held up because of the title. Amazon UK may want to stay on the sunny side of foxhunting conservatives in the (vain) hope that David Cameron & Co will waive the enormous tax bill Amazon still owes for UK sales...fat chance!