New Moon

This month's New Moon - in Libra!

So yesterday was a New Moon and today I have sent out submissions of my new novel, The Gospel According to Darren to agents - and so I am excited, and anxious.  I have already had a one line email from an agent thanking me and saying "It looks interesting" - which is encouraging, although I know she is a very polite sort of agent and we already have a rather tenuous relationship.

Sometimes I feel totally alien from the world of publishing etc., but today, since I also did 3 submissions to US agents of The Ash Grove, I feel rather immersed in it.

One of the US agents I submitted to had a one hour "how to succeed video" on their "Thank you for your submission page... an interview with one of their authors... who tells you all about monetising yourself.  The link to it is here http://www.foliolit.com/thankyouforquery/   There is a whole new world out there, and I'd better start building a platform to join it I guess. 

Understanding Blog Stats....

This is something I've always found mystifying.   Earlier this morning, I had a reader in Australia - now he/she has disappeared, as has the reader in Ecuador who appeared (first ever Ecuadorean!) yesterday.    Also why is the number of pageviews always much more than the total of the pages viewed? And why is everyone reading an entry about stagflation which isn't really about stagflation - and why does no one, apparently, ever look at the latest page...

Why do I have lots of readers in the US and none in Canada?  Lots of readers in Russia and Germany?

Meanwhile - hello Slovenia, Colombia, welcome back Japan.

This entry can tell you that I don't have enough to do.  Actually, I am extremely busy watching my new neighbours move in and worrying about whether they have any books.  All their boxes are suspiciously light and they have golf clubs.  I don't suppose books and golf are mutually incompatible (I call PG Wodehouse in evidence) but it isn't a very frequent pairing.