Aloha, all my blog readers:
I have not posted a new blog in the past 2 days because to be frank I am waiting to find out how much impact my blog has on the sale of my  book, Polynesian Dreams.
As I mentioned several times, writing a book takes stamina, dedication, some say talent but most important determination to finish what you started.
I know many folks who started writing but now have half finished manuscript somewhere in a desk drawer. You have to fail perhaps 50 or more times before you succeed, but I believe succeed you will if you  have the right amount of determination. Sure, a bit of writing flair helps, a bit of luck is fine as well, but the stick-to-it attitude is the most important ingredient. 
Again, an often repeated story; Margaret Mitchell, was found to have dozens of unpublished novels complete with rejection slips in a box in her attic. True? 
This story pertains not only to the writer of Gone with the Wind but to many writers who became super nova best sellers. I have no illusions about my book: Polynesian Dreams, but I do dream of selling a bunch of copies. Not for profit, it so happens that I am in the winter of my existence and financial independent. Therefor I donate the net proceeds to deserving charities. 
My book is not only a tale of adventure, a bit of romance, drama, heartache and the biography of a person once hopefully addicted and who had lost all control over his destiny.
In Polynesian Dreams I write how I managed to battle the addiction and the result of those battles. People who read the book have contacted me and told me how they could not put the book down, wanting to get to the next chapter to see how and where I would screw up again, and later rejoiced with the victory I achieved. I am not giving away the meat of my story but I am asking you to connect with one of the E-book sellers and read a few free sample chapter for free. I think that there are many folks who would like to make changes in their life. The book tells you how managed to do this and if I, a ordinary human being , managed this, no reason in the world you could not also. I am going to wait until the various exchanges give me the sales figures before writing the next blog. Peace to all, Polynesian Dreams can now be read on any table, laptop, even on the your smart phone (I have not tried that), Johan Van Oldenbarneveld writer. 
The photo is the Ms. Van Kinsbergen, a Dutch gun ship on which the writer sailed and experience a devastating event in 1947 as a member of the crew.