Last year I wrote a novel, I had it all figured out I was going to write a novel and self publish it. To be honest it took a while to write, over 50000 words in total. When I finished it, I had such an accomplished feeling that I had achieved something, something that I had created and invented with my own mind.

Then self doubt set in.

After finishing the manuscript I spoke to a couple of people, I ended up feeling more confused than ever about what I should do next. The plan was always to self publish, and people were telling me that I had to spend a lot of money on the manuscript, to get it up to scratch.

One person said he read it and this was like an hour after I wrote it, then he started to criticise the whole thing, which I came to a vast conclusion that he really didn't read it, but wanted to make out he did so he could be a book critic. But still listening to his words prevented me from moving on with the manuscript.

I think two people maybe who read the book had been sincere, in the light that they said it was not a bad read but did need some tidying up. I confess now to the grammar police I am not the worlds best at grammar, probably far from it and you will be able to tell in my blog posts. For the past year the manuscript was always in the back of my mind, but I did nothing with it, because I just thought its not going to be any good, I could not afford a proof reader and thus it would just gather digital dust in my laptop.

Then I did something crazy.

So last night I got some random email from amazon KDP, nothing at all to do with my book but it brought it back to my mind. I logged on, as there was a draft copy of the manuscript and cover waiting. When I looked at the date, the last time I touched it was December 17. So I had done nothing with the book for an entire year, way too long I thought to my self.
So for once in my life, I stopped listening to other people and listened to myself. There and then I published the book on Amazon and it's there now available to read.

A word of caution

If you read this, please note the grammar is far from perfect I know this. I just had a story I wanted to tell so I wrote it. The book is called Arrival at Happy Endings. Here is the a description of what the book is about.

Lydia Spalding, is a top journalist working for a London newspaper. She loves her job and is devoted to it, when her boss tells her that she is being moved to a women's supplement Lydia is not happy about it.
Her first assignment, she is sent to a Village in Bulgaria to research about a millionaire called Mark Ross who is renovating a village. However when she gets there Mark is reluctant to talk to her, so Lydia gets to know the locals each one with a secret of their own. When the local foreman is murdered people are on edge and Lydia is determined to find the killer, but what she finds out will be on every newspaper front page worldwide.

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All in all the story I hope you enjoy reading it if you choose to do so. Will I write another one? I would like to think so but I am guessing I have to just give myself a good talking to, after all no one became an expert in writing over night so it could be a long time before I would consider myself to have any sort of talent, but if I don't try I will never know.

If you would like to read the book, you can click on the link below the picture it is available on all Amazon's worldwide.

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