July isn't even over for a few hours yet and this must have been the best July I have ever had in terms of book sales. Probably the year I was happiest writing because I finally had freedom and could do what I wanted was 2018 and not even that year saw great July sales. 

This week it seems to be The Previous Plastic Surgeon and Reptile taking the lead. I think Reptile has been winning in the book sales department all month. Must be those flying ants. 

This week also saw the release of Chester and Lester's Christmas in July Special. That one is only on godless though. One day, I might collect all the Chester and Lester stories and publish them in paperback, but that day is not today. I just posted about my plans not just for the next few months but to last into 2024 at least.

Chester and Lester's Christmas in July Special ends the monthly releases. With the exception of April, I have been releasing one book, usually between short story and novella length per month since September. I can't keep up with that anymore. I'm tired and my health is shit. Maybe next week I'll get around to posting a complete list of what was released in that time. And I had releases at the end of July last year, missed August, so really, I have been publishing a lot and all of them except The Scratching Post have been self-published (which is a lot more work). 

Thank you so much for all these sales. It has been absolutely amazing. The money I earn from book sales really helps me out a lot as I posted last week and probably the week before, etc. 

​I have a few more updates to do before I can work on October's release and rest. It is Sunday and I have another full week of work next week. As I posted on TikTok last night, freelancing was hiding some of my symptoms. I also have to do ironing today. I hate ironing. I chuck what can be chucked into the tumble drier to avoid it but none of this stuff can go in the tumble drier with tumble drier sheets and folded as soon as it stops to avoid the ironing. 

It is Friday evening, I've finally been able to log in. I did last week's book sales via social media. It was a large variety of books so I can't remember them all. And I am only guessing as I don't keep a very good eye on these things, plus I have no idea how many copies of Sparky the Spunky Robot are selling because amazon's author central keeps telling me its sales ranking is unavailable (and has been doing this for awhile now). 

I apologise in advance for typing errors, but it is Friday evening. This might be my only chance to post this week so best do it now before I have a bubble bath and crawl into bed. I am nearly at the stage where I can return to Snow White. Still finishing off October's release plus my book for Scumbags 2 though, but hopefully done by mid-August at the latest. 

The crown for best sales of the week seems to be going to Reptile (again). Must be those flying ants. You'll never look at them again after reading Reptile. And you'll probably want to bathe (maybe in bleach). PS. The ebook can be found here for cheaper. 

I think second place goes to Broccoli because why wouldn't it? Nothing like swimming in body fluids to wash down all those flying ants. Ebook is on godless. 

If you like Reptile, be sure to check out Stara and Becoming (ps. Becoming is available for kindle, but I really recommend getting the paperback, this is about the only time I'm going to do this, but it is due to formatting, you don't miss any of the story with the kindle version but you do miss something). Stara is disgusting, violent and extreme but with some added weirdness. Becoming is just intense. If you are getting Stara in ebook, be sure to get it from godless. Becoming isn't on godless but I think it is available on other platforms or from bookstores (I have no idea how Deaths Head Press's distribution works, also Sparky is available from outlets other than amazon, but I also have no idea how Journalstone's distribution works). 

Thank you so much for purchasing these books. Every July until about mid-August, my book sales tend to be towards the shit side, but not this year. And this year it helps out more than you can imagine. Before I can tackle the debt of the ten years between graduation and #metoo, I have to tackle the debt of "freelancing isn't a real job and I'm going to dump a bunch of word salad on you in public". The repayments are absolutely crippling, especially with the costs of everything going up so much. Once they're gone though, I'll be a step closer to being able to disappear (as was demonstrated when I was freelancing, I'm never going to be allowed to work and live my life in peace, disappearing is my only option to have a normal life where I can pay bills and buy food and clothing etc.). The royalties I earn from book sales or from selling print-on-demand art prints is ensuring I can buy clothes (school uniform pieces to purchase tomorrow) and have Christmas this year (plus my nails and hair expenses - I probably should have waited on the hair but it makes me feel so good, I'm leaving finishing off my tattoo until I'm on a repayment plan for the debt worked up in my name between graduation and #metoo). So thank you. It really helps me out. I hope you are enjoying the books that can be enjoyed and enduring while feeling disgusted with the others. Please leave a review (once I get some time there will be some reviews from the Queen of Filth). 

I'm hoping to pick up some supplies for my cut-ups project tomorrow. Hopefully school uniform costs haven't gone up too much. My son just needs some trousers and shirts. These are unbranded, but he insists his clothing comes from Marks and Spencers (luckily school uniforms are on sale) as they are a lot more comfortable. So shopping tomorrow. Fun times, fun times (maybe I'll enjoy it more when I no longer have to count every penny). Then as I mentioned, I'm finishing off October's release and my Scumbags 2 story. Plus I need some rest. Next week is going to be a busy one. I can't say everything but I can remind you that Chester and Lester's Christmas in July Special will be out on Wednesday (only on godless, where it will remain exclusive). If you want to catch up on Chester and Lester, you can do so here (I haven't posted the stories in order on the Queen of Filth, mainly because Chester's Cloudy Ice was published and I had to wait for the one year contract to run out and when I updated, I didn't rearrange the order). 

Here's some pictures of my cat watching pigeons. During the heatwave I had to keep the curtains shut, which made her sad. But the curtain is open again. Excuse the tumble drier hose. 

If you look closely, the pigeon is looking at her ^ and below I remembered to open the curtains. I will need to go pull the 'weeds' (bird seed that has taken root) out from between the paving slabs again, but not this weekend. 

As I've just posted, I'm in for a bit of an intense few months on the financial level. All these book sales help my situation immensely. So thank you, very very much. It is greatly appreciated. Like you have no idea how much. 

If you've read the book and enjoyed it, you can also leave a review. I'm not sure how goodreads works, but I can access it enough to screenshot my reviews and use them in marketing. Plus, more reviews, means more book sales, which in turn means that the financial difficulty I'm in while paying back this first lot of debt is lessened. Unfortunately, every time I have managed to remove German Dani Brown's books, they've only reappeared on there (amazon is actually really good at removing them, even if the process is a pain in the arse). I don't know what is going to happen if any of my books get translated into German or if I decide to write something where the title implies it is about a conspiracy theory (you do get some conspiracy theory in some of my books, even in Ketamine Addicted Pandas with the Nazi UFO theories, which is where the flying saucers came from). Then of course, there's Dan Brown of Da Vinci Code fame (who must be really fed up of telling people his books are fiction), but his books don't show up on my goodreads. 

So even if you are buying books that I didn't self-publish, it still helps immensely. I will track down missing payments, but if there's a larger amount, it makes it easier to do. 

I did have a bit of a surprise when I checked amazon this morning and saw that 3 of a Kind sold somewhat recently. My Morbidbooks releases did well up to and during the first lockdown, but after that I was so focused on self-publishing, that I haven't really promoted those ones. Most of them were my early books, but 3 of a Kind was my first release of 2018. I was mentally in a bad place because the bad was gone, but the last of the bad, decided to take my proverbial shattered pieces of my life and blow them into the proverbial wind. When 3 of a Kind came out I still hadn't figured out a way to build the bridge from the day after I handed in my degree to nine and a half years later (nor was I aware of the level of damage that was done to my life). The book came out in January of that year, I figured out how to build that bridge somewhere between mid-February and mid-March. And of course, amazon decided not to link the kindle and paperback versions. I hope whoever purchased that enjoys it. I put a new section on my website, that groups my books together instead of listing them by first published order, so I will eventually put all the Morbidbooks releases together in that section too (I'm not removing the books section on here, at least not any time soon). 

I haven't been keeping really good track of book sales these last few weeks. Trying to sort out this debt and then it triggers a PTSD reaction because I know where it came from, plus there's been people trying to create drama situations about of positive things. But thank you so much for buying. Those royalty payments have taken me out of tight situations in the past. 

If you are buying my self published ebooks, you want to buy them on godless, where they are so much cheaper. Some titles I only release on godless. My computer is still being awkward so you'll have to search me on there. It is very easy, just type "dani brown" into "what the fuck are you looking for". 

The paperback for Stef and Tucker Mile High will be released just after Chester and Lester's Christmas in July Special, which is hitting Godless on the 27th. The paperbacks for the first four are on amazon. They're only very short books, between 9-16 k each, so you can read in one sitting on your tablet, kindle or phone. I know the artwork for that third one is popular though so people buy the paperback. I will eventually put either the cover, or similar digital art on my redbubble page. 

And again, all the JEA published books that I have reissued are now on amazon. When I'm self-publishing and intend on releasing on amazon, I always give godless about one month of exclusivity. I know some people wanted the paperbacks though. If you want the ebooks, they're cheaper on godless. 

• Dark Roast, this is the short and weird one with the genetically modified coffee. 
• The Previous Plastic Surgeon, this one is gory and the boyfriend is a total dickhead with mommy-issues. 
• Reptile, this one has something horrible and disgusting on each and every page. Contains scenes of extreme sexual violence and a subversion of BDSM. Then it gets weird. Really fucking weird, but still really horrible (or even worse, and it is super disgusting). 
• And of course, Ketamine Addicted Pandas. Take ket, eat baboon brains and burn it all. 

I have to go see to the pigeons (pictured below) and then make some progress on a short story before the week starts all over again. Next weekend, I have to deal with some of the shitty systems in this country that don't do things right the first time around, the first time you complain, the second time you complain, like you have to be broken for them to even pay attention to you (I'm still on the wrong tax code and haven't received my council tax rebate yet, the rebate is buying my son some school uniform pieces he needs and being on the right tax code might ease some of my financial difficulties, or at least make life a bit easier for the next few months). 

As if by magic, I finally have a pension. It is my birthday on Wednesday. I'm turning 38 (although I put in every effort to look ten years younger to at least outwardly give me back my ten years), I really should have been allowed to have a pension before this point.

Saving for retirement is very important. I did point that out to the people in my life. I argued it, making me sicker and it just didn't click in their feeble brains (not even in the head's of my son's primary school teachers). I really don't know where these people think retirement funds come from. It certainly isn't the government. Even now, with the latest generation that didn't have private pensions reaching the end of their lives, the state pension is not enough to live off. 

Obviously, my health isn't great. I'm honestly hoping to make it to retirement age. If I don't, my son will inherit everything I put away. And as stated previously and across social media, me and my son intend on identity changes and moving to a non-english speaking country, away from the stress of people who wouldn't let me work in the first place. My pension can come with me and hopefully without any new stress, I can live a long life (even if I don't have the energy for a full life, but I make the most out of what energy I do have). 

I still have a ton of debt to pay back, but the government had companies set up private pension schemes for their employees and it has finally kicked in. I could opt out, but my lack of a pension was a major source of my stress and anxiety to begin with and given how old I am and not knowing how long my working life will be, it seems best to be enrolled for the minimum amount at the moment (once the debt is sorted out, I can pay in more). 

I have set up some debt repayment, mainly relating to nearly being evicted. Even at the lowest possible repayment amount I was offered, it is still really high. My money is really tight right now. I have no objections if anyone wants to dump anything in my Ko-Fi. This first lot of debt will have its last repayment in March 2023. Then the next lot kicks in but I don't think the repayments will be as high, or if they are, they won't be for as long. After that, I have to start tackling the ten years of life destroying Hell debt. Any and all book sales help my situation at this point. Obviously, I plan on tracking down missing payments from publishers. Art sales also help considerably. 

I don't know what is happening with my student loans. I graduated in 2008. That was the year before top-up fees. Not only that, but I spent three additional years locked in my bedroom (only sometimes allowed to attend university) to reduce my loan and debt amount. I have already paid some back (mainly an over payment from my mother lying on the loan form, I don't know how it is in other countries where you pay for university, but over here, your parents have to fill in the form and it goes off their income). Although I was aware she was lying, if I didn't sign the form, she wouldn't have allowed me to attend. 

I'm in for a financially challenging few months, but at least I have that pension. Once the nearly-evicted debt is paid, I will get some driving lessons and finally put that provisional to use (it arrived about two weeks before the first lockdown, but that was prior to nearly being evicted). After that and buying a car, I will set up two savings accounts - one for a rainy day (unfortunately, as long as I stay where people can find me, I am always a high risk for a rainy day) and the other called 'get the fuck outta here'. 

As social media was treated to some pigeons, here's some pigeons for you. There might be a racer or two mixed in there, but that's a mainly feral flock.