It's Sunday morning

The coffee is good and it's sunny outside. It's Sunday morning and even my dog is still asleep so I am looking through the sales figures and reviews on Amazon. This is how I get to hear the voice of my readers, so I read every review. Quite a few people have reviewed every book I have written, so I recognize them when their names come up.

Amazon is pretty cool about making this possible for authors, you don't have to hunt around for your reviews, they are all collected into one page for you. Getting a positive review is a real bost and getting a critical one is good too, so long as there is a learning point from it.

One reviewer, AnnieO thinks that Peter Sparke is so totally hopeless with women that she cannot understand how he ever came to be married then divorced - great point and one I will address in the next Sparke book. This is more or less already plotted out and has the working title, "The Templar Scroll".That should be ready late summer with luck.

Right now my focus is on the first book in a new series I planning based around Scotland in the 1770's. This one is based around the Scottish legend of Sawney Bean. If you have never heard of Bean and his family of cannibals it is worth checking out the story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean
Wikipedia is always a good place to start. I have moved the period into the 18th century as it was a more vibrant period (The Enlightenment).

Is the world ready for a book about an eighteenth century cannibal family?

The waiting part

Once a book goes live on Amazon you have to deal with the waiting part; the time between the moment when hundreds of people buy the book and some of them post reviews.

So far my mother and my father-in-law both gave The Templar Tower good reviews, but they're family.

My next Peter Sparke book is already plotted - I use a spreadsheet to map each chapter and  it is, more or less, planned. I can't wait to start it as it is based around the last stand of the Templars in the city of Acre, their massive seaport fortress and one of the major cities in the Holy Land.

But, right now, all I want to do is to see how you, the reader, liked my last one.

All feedback is warmly welcomed.

Thanks

Scott