I've been so busy with the new house and garden and the edits of the novel and so I've been neglecting my Goodreads pals, my book reviews and my blog. 

I am about to launch the pre-orders for the new novel so trotted across to Smashwords to find out how they did it. 

Mark has a great article on the reasons why pre-orders are a good sales tool and how to do it. Go and read it if you are thinking of launching a book some time next year.

http://blog.smashwords.com/2015/06/how-to-reach-more-readers-with-ebook.html