...when I received a lovely surprise. I was gazing out of my kitchen window - as you do - while licking the spoon clean of illicit peanut butter, when I spotted a cheery-looking man carrying a single parcel waiting to cross the road at the roundabout 'neath my window. In a flash it sprang into my mind - it was The Man from Amazon! And I just knew that he was heading for Me! I was right! After he had narrowly avoided being run down crossing the road, I heard the warming sound of the doorbell to my flat. With a charming smile he handed me the packet (after he had managed to get the lift to work - I am on the second floor - it can be temperamental...). Thanking him graciously, I retreated back into the kitchen, ripped the parcel open - and there they were: Five Proof Copies of the Print version of Everyone Can Write, for which I had paid CreateSpace an inordinate amount in order to receive them before Christmas, and not midway through January.
Why would I do such a thing (apart, of course, from being unable to resist my Instant Gratification Fetish)? Well, several of you Luddites had plaintively asked when the print version would be available, so that you could indulge your disgusting habit of Book-Sniffing. I had slaved for many hours in the days before Christmas (when I should have been buying carefully-chosen gifts for my deserving family - instead I just had to get them all gift vouchers...) in order to get the book as perfect as possible. But enough of this merry badinage: HEADLINE OF THE DAY! The print version of Everyone Can Write is now officially available on Amazon!! You can get it here: http://tinyurl.com/htbcdh4 It's an awful lot more expensive than the Kindle version (all those trees have to die...), and you can't just click on the links to get taken to all the wonderful resources, you have to laboriously type them into your web browser. But, if you're a Book-Sniffer, then here it is! And, at the risk of sounding like a Hectorer, when, and IF you like the book, please place a review/rating on Amazon in order to help me become visible. I know, I know - but I'm not talking about corporeality, where I am VERY visible; I mean Digitally, Amazonianly visible. So far I've got two lovely reviews from people who have automatically been elevated to the standing of BFFs - and there aren't many of them... Only 48 to go before Visibility of the Amazonian Kind strikes... And, just in case: last night I found to my horror that my granddaughter, Rachel, who should know better, didn't know that you don't have to have a Kindle in order to download and read books - you just have to download and install the Kindle app on your phone, tablet or computer. For the wimps among you, go here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page A sidelight on this: I discovered that you can not only select the Font of your choice, but that one of the fonts has been especially created for dyslexics, among whom I count many friends. One of these took a look and confirmed that it makes things clearer. One final, small addendum: While, as you might have guessed, I am a HUGE fan of Kindle, there is nothing quite like the quite warm glow you get when you cuddle an actual print copy, smell the wonderful perfume of... Oh dear.... Errmm.... Now I just want you all to get the book, do the exercises, write the novels, short stories, poems that will POUR out of you, PUBLISH them, and get very, VERY rich - stopping by at Balham Tube and Train Station to drop a coin in my upturned cap, and be rewarded with a pathetically grateful smile... As I, frequently, tell my students, I may not personally be rich, nor ever expect to be, but my fingers scatter magic golden dust on all whom list unto me...
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