One of Each Book!

This is both really cute, and very satisfying: a day after I made all my e-books free, the downloading records showed that one copy of every one of my books had been downloaded!  Of course, I don't know whether a single person was responsible for downloading all of them, but it seems likely that it was.

Furthermore, they, whoever they are, may not like all the books, or even a single one of the books (and may not read them all), but I have to be satisfied with interpreting the statistics this way.

I was a very different person when I wrote many of the books (than I am now), and when I read some of them now I'm stunned by how well I did, in some cases, as well as how embarrassing some passages are!  You may wonder whether the same person wrote them all; well they did, and it was me.

Well, a happy St. Patrick's Day to anyone reading this.  (I believe St. Patrick was a Roman, but I could be wrong.  He definitely had a Roman passport.)

Regards, from a grateful and appreciative Kay

Read an Ebook Week!

Just learned about this thing, and enrolled all my books ago.  Get over to Smashwords and get all the books for free right now; we can talk later.

This is a silly event; I just can't take it seriously!  Anyone who wants to read at all would probably be reading ebooks, but I recognize that some people don't own the equipment to do so, like an ebook reader, or a tablet.  Also, a two-week event would make a little more sense.  Anyhow, enjoy!

Kay

Elicit, illicit

I recently wrote about a story in which the legend of Robin Hood had been presented as if Robin was a woman.  The story is an interesting one, even in the original version.  The author notes that, at the time of king Richard and Prince John, the country was barely one hundred years old.

Regrettaby, the author has confused the words elicit, and illicit.  Elicit is a verb, while illicit is an adjective.  So that pair of words has been added to our list.

Kay

OK, I'm Officially an Old Person

Yes; I've decided that it's time I declared that I'm officially an old person.  Why?  Because I find myself annoyed every time I see the word 'hot' when applied to a woman.  This is a generational thing; young people today, especially guys, use 'hot' to mean attractive and sexy.  Unfortunately, to me it has a connotation of temporariness, as if they had added the phrase 'at the moment' to their remark.  It is a cheap word; I would dislike being described as 'hot', though I'm in no danger of it.