 So, although the contents are shared with the other boxes and all the recordings appear correctly, I have to go to that particular box to delete recordings.
Do I have any option other than setting the whole box back to Default settings and starting again, please?Link works for me, but here:

- Day 1: Third Round Knockout (he appears here again after you finish the main Lantern Rite quest line)

- Day 2: Near Hanfeng Ironmongers

- Day 3: Wanwen Bookhouse

- Day 4: Wangshu Inn

- Day 5: the floating structure by Qingyyn Peak

- Day 6: Near a bridge by the waypoint southwest of Qingce Village 

- Day 7: Liyue Harbor, on the walkway above the large stone staircase that leads to the docks/where the bulk of the decorations are.

He moves locations every day after you speak to him. For example, talk to him at Third Round Knockout and the next IRL day you’ll find him at Hanfeng Ironmongers.Since she was twelve, Meriel Garland has lived with her grandfather in London, exiled from her beloved India following the death of her mother. Now sixteen, Meriel chafes against the strict regime of tests and study that her grandfather imposes on her. Escaping, she discovers a world outside her narrow existence – one that promises admiration for her acting skills, social success and the dark mysteries of séances. Disbelieving at first, she is drawn in when the young medium Sophie Casson passes on a message apparently from beyond the grave – and Meriel begins to suspect she might not be alone in the world after all. In searching for the truth about her past, Meriel uncovers a sinister scheme – and soon it’s hard to know who she can really trust...
This is a well written, delightful if somewhat predictable young adult read. I say young adult though I would be happy to pass this to anyone ages nine or up. Its got a little bit of everything you'd expect in a historical based novel, a forbidden love match, the cold unfeeling father who forbade it, the child of that union, tragedy, school rooms, governesses, strict rules and daring adventures. It won't disappoint if you don't hold your expectations too high.
When I first picked it up, I thought it was a ghost story. However, it couldn't be further from a ghost story if it tried. Yes, there are parts about mediums and seances, but its a bare minimum to drive the plot forward to what is really going on in Meriel's world. I do give the author points for using a name that I hadn't heard of before - darned if I can pronounce it correctly - but its a pleasant name, even if the character is some what petulant and selfish during most of the book.
I can summarise my feeling about the book quite simply as, it's enough to make me read something else by the author but not to keep this book in my permanent collection.
How does an Indie author/self published author measure how successful they are? I was recently reading some blog posts from an agent about trying to transition from self publishing into traditional publishing.
One of the main things he highlighted is that you have to prove to whoever you're submitting to, whether it be an agent or a publisher, that you can prove you are successful at marketing your book. He also went on to say that success means different things to different people but never was it mentioned what the industry considers success.
I am left assuming that its a money/sales issue. Even here different people set different goals for themselves and what one person considers success another might consider failure. There are some authors that no matter how much they gross never feel like a success. I remember when Mistakenly Mated grossed over 400 units in a month, it was more than I'd ever expected, and I thought it was success. Nothing since then has ever come close to that.
Recently I've been thinking about taking my book Soul Market and giving traditional publishing another shot. I thought it did well for a first novel (164 in the five years I was able to keep track of sales) and its average rating on Goodreads is 4.16 out of 5. However, due to complications with my (now ex) Indie Publisher, I lost track of royalty reports - sometimes because they never came and I never seemed to see any marketing for my titles that I did not myself produce. I never saw a review for my book that I did not myself solicit. I have done what I can with my budget and working a 40 hours week at a regular job on top of that.
However statements like that scare me. Does what I consider good cut the mustard with traditional publishing? Would they take into consideration effort made as well as result or is result all that matters? I question whether it would be better to keep self publishing where the rewards will be more when sales do roll in though the burdens are also all mine. Still I am left with the question, what are the right steps to becoming a success?
For anyone who considers being an author easy because platforms like Amazon have made it a simpler, easy click process have to understand it is little different than starting your own business. A lot of small business fail because the profits do not match the overhead. I want to keep writing because it is something that I love to do, I don't think I would ever stop but however stopping publishing my work might become a reality. I am woefully out of touch with the Indie side of things as I put all my eggs into one basket with Eternal Press - and now deeply regret it as I don't know what other Indie houses are out there and am scared of facing a repeat experience of what I've just endured.
As always comments, questions and advice are welcome in the comment section below.
When I picked this up, my first thoughts were it was like the Breakfast Club but with a murder. Although it started off along those lines, it evolved into one of the best teen stories I have read in a long time. We all know the characters, in our school we could have named the Bronwyn, the Cooper, the bad boy Nate and an Addy. We could also tell you which one we were in the quartet of characters who are first witnesses and then suspects in the death of their classmates. The pace of the book was good, the story never lagged or went off on tangents always keeping you right in the action of the story.
Chapters alternate between the four main characters, so you get to experience the whole situation from a variety of views, what each of them are going through as the media close in, the police struggle to get to the bottom of things, and their class mates turn on them as suspicions and their secrets come to light. It drives the four of them closer together as they try to work out who they can trust and what really happened in the classroom that day.
This book also for me holds a scathing comment on teen social circles and the dangers of social media. How heartless people can be with the anonymous nature of the internet. Blogging has never looked more dangerous and the nature of the human fascination with gossip and malicious gossip. I felt for each of the characters as they learned who their real friends were and who would stand by them as the truth came to light. The only downside of the book was that I had worked out what had actually happened by about a third of the way through.
1. Tell me about your book The Rose Thief and where you got your inspiration for it?
The Rose Thief is a humorous fantasy set in a fictional world where magic exists and people live alongside fae creatures. Someone has been stealing the Emperor's roses. The only trouble is that the red rose has been magically imbued with love so if it's removed from the rose garden, love will be lost to everyone. It's up to Ned Spinks, Chief Thief-Catcher and his motley crew of catchers to find out who the Rose Thief is and stop them. Things don't go smoothly and they end up on a quest to solve the crime and defeat the bad guy. I have always loved reading fantasy books, especially the Discworld series by the late Sir Terry Pratchett and I was inspired to start writing this book during NaNoWriMo in 2016. I had so much fun writing this book, I can't wait to write more in this world.
2. What are the top three books in your TBR pile?
I used to write all the time as a child but when I hit my late teens, life took over and I started working full time and stopped writing for a long time. It wasn't until I joined a local writing workshop in 2015 that I really got back into writing. That led me to the Pen to Print competition through which I wrote my debut novel, The Gaia Effect. These days I try to make sure I write every day whether it's a short flash fiction, continuation of a longer piece or time spent editing. If I can get up in the morning and get at least an hour done then I feel like I've managed something.
I am just about to move to the seaside so I guess I'd have to say beach, although I am not a big fan of baking hot weather lol. I do love spending time in nature so as long as I get to visit those mountains from time to time, I reckon I'll be alright.
Victoria's secret is how to get a normal shaped bottom into those tiny little scraps of material she calls knickers. Just because I enjoy a cake from time to time...
My best childhood memory is spending holidays with my grandparents on their farm in the middle of nowhere in Wales. We