Very interesting business, this.  Having put 5 of my Angel Mountain novels onto the Kindle Store on Amazon, everybody has been telling me that I must do a free promotion.  So I have set it all up, and "On Angel Mountain" is available free, for 5 days (that's the maximum allowed in a 90-day period).

So far so good.  But it's incredibly difficult to find a new "freebie" like this on the Amazon web site.  There is a "top 100 free Kindle books" page, but to get onto that you have to have…

Hard grind, but I hope it's worth it...... I've spent most of the last week formatting and uploading  five novels for Kindle, available from the Amazon websites worldwide.  They tell you it's incredibly simple -- and indeed it is, if you want to upload any old rubbish.  But if you want a…

The big BBC Wales TV series (made with the cooperation of the OU, Uncle Tom Cobbley et al) has shown two programmes out of the six so far -- and it's proving to be a grave disappointment.  The BBC calls it one of the most ambitious series ever produced in Wales.  Hmmm.   It's full of technical wizardry -- history and archaeology programmes these days clearly have to have computer generated reconstructions of absolutely everything, so as Huw Edwards paddles around in a little rowing boat on…