Viewing stats

My blog’s viewing stats for February showed 645 views – which I thought was a lot as I’m not very active on social media. My last book was published in 2024 so my visibility these days is fairly low. April showed 915 views (865 visitors).

So, in April, the Home and Archive pages received the most views – 477. The next two stats did surprise me considering the age of the posts. 72 views for For the love of Dani in 2019 and 15 views for Talking about writing from 2015. I don’t know who all these visitors/viewers are, but thank you for checking in to my blog now and then.

Dani is a main character in Changing Perspectives, my best selling novel by far. Released in 2017, it’s still picking up sales now and again. It was also my first audio book. I met up with narrator Nicki Vincent in a local coffee shop, mainly to sound her out about how to go about producing an audio version of my books. I gave her two books to take a look at and, probably not surprising, she chose Changing Perspectives and sent samples of voices for several of the characters. I was immediately hooked and knew I had to go ahead with the production. Four more audio books have followed since then and I’m pleased that I made the decision to give audio a chance.

It was likely on the strength of Changing Perspectives‘ success that I thought a sequel would be a good idea. Wrong! Changing Times, published in 2022 totally tanked. I moved the story on thirty years to focus on the next generation. I was sorry it garnered so little interest as I had also included updates on how the older characters from 1993 had fared.

On a completely different note: here are two photos from our recent visit to Ambleside in Cumbria showing the remains of the Roman fort and the northern end of Windermere beyond.