Symi 85600
I just went to my Amazon Author page to look at something and noticed that a stray book had slipped in unnoticed. These author pages are where Amazon customers can see an author’s complete listing of publications, so mine has the four Symi books and my thrillers, plus some older things that occasionally make me €0.70 when sold or read in Kindle Unlimited. I know I’ve written a lot in the past few years, but my skills don’t run to German, sadly, and “Zauberberg für Anfänger: Roman” is not by me. Apparently, the title means ‘Magic mountain for beginners’, and after a quick Google translate I learned that the story concerns a man meeting the love of his life on a plane between NY and LA, but then loses ‘the precious side.’ I thank that’s a mistranslation of something vital, I assume he lost her phone number and goes looking for her – you can read for yourself if you read German, and whether you like the book or not, it is not by me.
Nor is a book about learning Greek which has nothing to do with actually learning Greek, but has something to do with America. This was written by another James Collins, and I once got a load of his publicity stuff delivered to Symi by mistake. Not by my mistake, but the publisher’s. I tried to raring to send it back, but no-one was interested.
Anyway, the point of all this was to say I noticed I’d sold a few more copies of Symi 85600, the first of four books about moving to and living on, Symi. The early ones were put out there during the very early days of indie-online publishing (we were are pioneers back then), the second one ‘Carry On…’ comes with photos, the third ‘Village View’ is a diary of a complete year on Symi, 2013, and ‘Stuff and Nonsense’ is a bit more autobiographical and made up of old diaries from early and pre-Symi days, other travel stories and some bits and pieces. Maybe it’s the lockdown, but Symi 85600 remains popular and, it seems, is bringing a little bit of Symi to distant readers who, perhaps, won’t be able to get here this year. If you know of any, send them the link; all my books are available on Amazon in Kindle, print and Kindle Unlimited.
