Arthur Slade's Blog, page 29

Facebook Ads Sells a Trillion books!

Well, I tried out advertising on Facebook to see if I could gather a bit more interest in my novel Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival. Anyone who is on Facebook will know that ads appear on the right hand side of every page. That was the space I was buying. You can choose to pay for the number of impressions that an ad has (that is how many times it appears on the side of the page) or you can choose to pay each time someone clicks on your ad. I chose the second option, believing I'd get

Dead Heaven

[image error] Christopher Steininger, who is doing the Canadian Hunchback covers, has a new "mature audiences" webcomic. The artwork is amazing. Click here: Dead Heaven.

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A short video about Virtual Visits

Piggy Contest Winners and Honourable Mentions

Well, I had a contest to win a hardcover copy of JOLTED: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival and here were a few of the entries. The tough, mind bending question was: how do truffle pigs find truffles?

By dining at the world famous Truffles Restaurant in Saskatoon, SK Canada. Google map attached --Arla G

Truffle pigs find truffles as they truffle along to Buffalo where they can get a copy of JOLTED.--Pat R

I don't know about you but I eat them both and then they find comfort in my tummy.--Louise

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Virtual Visits I: Carman Collegiate gets to see my floating head

Well, I did my first virtual visit using Skype! It was with Carman Collegiate in Carman, Manitoba and I must say that it was a highly enjoyable experience and there were relatively few technical glitches.

First we had a test visit the day before, just to be sure that Skype would work and that the projectors and the sound system were also working properly. It is very important to go through all this before the actual day of the visit, just because there is always something that can go wrong. But

Treadmill Desk: Writing and Walking and making millions at the same time!

Well okay, you won't make millions.

But about a month ago I became a geeky treadhead. Yep, I'm officially one of those people who uses a treadmill desk. I'd read about Dr. James Levine from the Mayo Clinic whose theory was that we humans are designed to be upright and walking for most of the day. So he developed a treadmill desk (here's a video from Good Morning America about it):



Since I, as a writer, tend to sit for hours and hours and hours, this idea of a treadmill desk kept coming back to me.

Two Headed Copy Edits

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Originally uploaded by Arthur SladeAh, I just finished the last revision for The Hunchback Assignments. It was a curious process this time because I was working on the copy edits from both my American and Canadian publishers. I placed them side by side and went through them page by page. It made me feel a little two headed.

I discovered that if both copy editors saw a sentence or a situation as confusing, I knew that I should change it. But if one copy editor pointed some change out that I d

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Wacky Author interviews

There's this:

Then this:

And now for something completely silly (you're welcome Susan Juby):



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What do authors do when they're done a book?

Some smoke a cigarette. Ewww. Others drink a glass of wine. Me....I made this:

Chicken, cheese, peppers, mushrooms...and I even made the sauce and the dough. So much better than working with adverbs. Or trying to keep characters or plots in line.

Oh, and if you want to see some christmas hilarity...visit here.

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