Up and Down Again: an author's tale - Katherine Roberts
Question: What is this? Answer: (a) Sales graph of my latest indie-published ebook? (b) My amazon author ranking (i.e. popularity)? (c) A midlist author's income? (d) Sales graph of a traditionally published title in the month following its publication? If you've been writing and publishing for a few years, you might well be tempted to answer 'yes' to all these. But you'd be wrong. This is what I was actually doing when I created the above graph: Not writing, but skiing in Switzerland. Before you get too envious, this photo was taken on one of the sunny days when it had snowed during the night. We also had days like the one that created the graph below, when skiing was pretty much impossible because the weather was too windy for most of the lifts to run, and then a tree fell on the single chairlift that was running so it was forced to shut too, meaning we had to walk half an hour back to the village in ski boots carrying our skis, i...