24 Oct 26 – Amazon, where I currently sell just about all of my books, is messing around with Kindle, which is their book platform. At the moment it’s the only place I sell my Murderous Intent series in ebook form, because their rules are that I can’t sell anywhere else whilst it’s on Kindle Unlimited (now rebranded as Kindle+). KU (or Ki+ now I guess) is where I make 80% of my income, which is earned by getting a (really tiny) amount for each page read.
However, I’m getting a bit wary about just using Amazon. This month over 50,000 page reads simply vanished! I’m not the only one this happened to, and at the moment I’m not sure whether I’ll ever get them back. That was half of my revenue for the month!
Because of this, I may be going to take Murderous Intent, and my others, off Kindle Unlimited, so I can sell the ebooks on other platforms. I would be looking at putting them on Kobo/Kobo+ (which is like Kindle Unlimited but without the restrictions), and also selling them on this website (at a slightly cheaper price).
So, this is just a heads up if you read my stuff on Kindle Unlimited, but also a question: Would you buy my ebooks rather than read on KU? Any comments or feedback, please email me at NeilHartleyBooks at gmail. Or comment on one of my social media.
Cheers!

24th Sep 2026 – It’s been a bit slower going recently because the part time work I do IRL has been taking a bit more time up, but I’ve reached about 82% along with book 24 of of Reincarnated in a Fantasy World with Murderous Intent. My RL work won’t calm down until next month, but I’m still aiming to finish draft one by the end of September.
As an aside, I’m trying to publish this series in paperback as well. I’ve book one available already, although the format isn’t what I wanted (but Amazon won’t let me change it now unless I totally unpublish and redo, and I ‘aint doing that). Book 2 is also out, although I need to check the version is up to date, and hopefully book three will be done soon, if I can figure out how to adjust the font size up from microscopic. It’s a struggle, which is why most of my books are just ebooks.
Finally, I would just like to state for the record that no generative AI is used in my writing. The words you read all come from me, and are not generated or edited by any LLM/AI. Which is probably why there are so many typos. Sorry about that, I have been working to improve this lately.

26th Aug 2026 – I’m happy to announce that volume 23 of Reincarnated in a Fantasy World with Murderous Intent is now out on Amazon. Not only that, it’s about 12% longer than usual, due to me missing some stuff out of the middle, and having to go back and add more when I thought I was done! Anyhoo, I hope you enjoy. MI is also available in audio format read by Elevenlabs AI voice, which can be found here. (The whole series isn’t up at the time of writing, but I’m adding to it fairly frequently).

19th Aug 2026 – Alrighty then! As of 8am local time this morning, draft one of book 23 of Reincarnated in a Fantasy World is completed. I finished it whilst having a coffee in McDonald’s lol. Need to do a few editing passes, but hopefully will be out in 7 to 10 days. Watch this space.

4th August 2026 – After a slow start, not helped by a multitude of IT issues, I’ve had a few days of better progress writing on book 23 of Murderous Intent and am now about halfway along. Mind you, I have a fair bit of stuff going on IRL later in the month, so here’s hoping I can keep going. Anyway, just an update! 🙂

27th July 2026 – As well as my Murderous Intent series, I have other books available. One is the Necromancer’s Chronicles, which is also in print. It was written a few years ago now, and I thought it was edited okay, but I’ve just gone over it and found so many typos! Of course, just before I put the new, corrected, version up, several people have bought copies! (I’ve not sold many at all up until now). So I can only apologies to those that have bought this. If you contact me I can send you an e-copy of the latest version, or a free e-copy of another of my books to make up for this.
Once again, apologies!

24th July 2026 – Had problems with my PC over the last week, to the extent I tried reloading Windows, which all then went horribly wrong. Sigh. Anyway, I’ve been thinking of dumping Windows for a while, what with Microsoft bloating it even more, and adding their stupid AI to everything. (NO, I don’t want you to rewrite my fckng email!) Anyway, I’ve, finally, loaded Linux, which I’ve not had as an OS for about thirty years! So getting used to it again.
Anyhoo, this has all slowed down book 23 of Murderous Intent, but hopefully I’ll be able to up the pace a bit now. It’s only about 18% done so far. Check back here or on my Amazon page for further updates!

30 June 2026 – You can now (hopefully if I’ve set it up right) listen to Book one of Reincarnated in a Fantasy World with Murderous Intent as an Audiobook with ElevenLabs for free. Simply click on the link to the right (maybe below depending on what you’re using to read this page) or click here and hit the listen button. (You may have to register/sign in first, but that’s free).
I’m adding the others in the series there too, but it takes a little while, and they are a bit slow with their approval process. It’s also available on Amazon as usual.

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