Returning To An Old Friend

 Last time I updated anyone on my fantasy book series “Haldred Chronicles” was back in 2024.

I dabbled in TikTok, updated Instagram constantly, even had a Twitter account (you know, it’s proper name).

Yet not only could I just not keep things going but I had hit a wall creatively. With my fifth book I just couldn’t get going.

Yet now, going into 2026, things have changed.

 

I have been re-writing my later books to make them more consistent with my officially published book ‘Alyssa’. I have learnt a lot from the editorial and publishing process so now, 2026 will be the ‘relaunch’ year of Haldred Chronicles.

This relaunch can be best described as a ‘soft’, as a lot of the work on the books has been correcting errors, making the grammar and spelling more consistent and updating aspects of the prose.

Original readers need not throw up their hands in dismay; the story and characters do not change. I am simply changing the writing, so it makes a little more sense from a ‘meta plot’ point of view.

And it all prepares the ground for book 5. I have not set a launch date yet, that depends on how well the writing goes, but I want to finish it. I want to get it out.

Victoria needs her next adventure; she’s going to get it.

So, in our run up to Christmas I bid you all Happy Christmas, may you have a Happy New Year and hopefully, sometime in 2026 I will finally release book 5 of Haldred Chronicles.

 

In the meantime, for anyone who hasn’t, you will find all my books at the links below:

Amazon.com Haldred Chronicles

Amazon.co.uk Haldred Chronicles

Linktree link (for more locations to purchase the books from)

Happy New Year

 

Bit late with this, but it’s still the first month of the new year.  Happy New Year all!

As usual, remember, Alyssa can be purchased at Amazon.co.uk HERE and at Amazon.com HERE

So, a lot has been happening in the last few months.

With book 1 out and launched, I spent most of the last few months of 2021 pitching Alyssa and hoping for sales.  I did indeed get sales but not as many as I had hoped.  Still, I learned a lot.

All of January I ran a series of Amazon free book deals for all 3 of my other books. I likewise advertised on Facebook and A LOT on Twitter.

The results were mixed.

On the one hand, I sold over 200 ebooks (as in they were picked up free.) And also a few people downloaded my books on kindle unlimited, reading well over 500 pages.  Additionally, my work on Twitter raised my follower count to nearly 4400.  And this time, not all of them were other authors!

But so far I’ve only seen 1 ebook purchased and no copies of Alyssa seem to have sold yet. I had hoped that purchases of the other books would in turn make people curious about book 1.  Still learning experience.

I intend to use February to concentrate solely on pitching Alyssa, but also, I hope to write book 5.

Yes, book 5 is officially being written!  I have a new idea on an old story plan and am now modifying and improving it.  A couple of thousand words already.

If I can maintain momentum, I hope to release it sometime toward the end of 2022 but I will see how things go.

Anyway, that’s my brief blog update.

Take care all of you.

Haldred Chronciles: two months on

Haldred Chronicles: Alyssa UK editions are HERE and US Editions HERE

In this blog I thought i'd talk about what worked and what didn’t in my efforts to get the word out about my book.




First to purchase were my wonderful friends and family, who bought a whole raft of electronic and paper copies. And also told people about it on Social media!




I then gave ‘Facebook advertising' a go with a few test posts that were promoted for short periods. The posts had a ‘buy it now' option which according to analytics was clicked a good few times. However, as to just how effective this was I won’t know until December when the first sales report comes through.




I also became highly active on Twitter and a few book advertising sites. I’ve now around 3700 followers on twitter but I’ve found that particularly social media avenue better for ‘writers encouragement' as apposed to selling books; the majority of my followers are other writers!




Finally, throughout the month of October I ran a series of ‘Free’ ebook promotions for my original books. The idea was to generate some renewed interest in the series. Certainly this seems to have worked as my Amazon ranking for all 4 books have improved a lot.




The question now is what to do next. I really want to have an official ‘book launch' but I’m also hoping to contact a few newspapers with press releases. I have a nice big list of additional advertising ideas, but the issue will be getting the time and resources to implement them!




Overall, I’m happy with how things have started off. The book is out, people are buying it and most importantly, people like it!




On to the next phase!