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Calling Contributors to the second group book - Please read this!
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Philip
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Oct 12, 2012 07:31AM
You can imagine how well tales of growing up in Burton upon Trent do in the U.S., I'm sure ;-)
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I have just returned from a week's holiday. Is it too late if I get this sorted for tonight...?
Should be ok Jonathan as long as you get it to Simon in the way he mentions in the first post.
No problem, I'll do it now. Just readjusting temperature-wise.Barcelona 29 - Manchester 11 :(
Oh, are people leaving email addresses? I'm always wary as it could lead to spam if they are posted. What is the consensus on this?
I don't think anyone has Jonathan. Hey, I'm from Manchester. Isn't it true that they call Barcelona the Manchester of Spain. Or did I dream that?
Kath, you may be right. It rings a bell somewhere in my mind too.Simon, sent you a bio and links. Phew! Hope I made it!
Hi all, I will be updating the web site shortly. Deadline Sunday morning.
Ignite wrote: "I don't think anyone has Jonathan. Hey, I'm from Manchester. Isn't it true that they call Barcelona the Manchester of Spain. Or did I dream that?"
I'm half-Manc me, though as I was born and bred in London it remains a shadow side of me
Stupid me - what's a 'PM'? (apart from prime minister, afternoon, etc.) I realise I'm up against the wire - thanks to Ignite, without whom I wouldn't even have seen the wire ...
Private message, Lexie.Just click on Simon's name and you'll see the 'send message' link.
Thank you, Patti! I shall now retreat to Georgian Scotland again a little wiser!
It has started to rain so I had to duck into the nearest doorway. You will never guess where I ended.
Oh gee, wonder where you could possibly be....You're most welcome Lexie. :)
Pheasant rather than duck I would think. . .
Just saw this thread and have sent you my information Simon. Thanks for setting this website up. Best wishes, Stephen Livingston.
I wonder if book launch and 2000 members party is going to coincide.
That would be fairly kewl!
Well it's been 'publishing' for nearly 24 hours. At this rate we'll be having our 3,000 members party before it's 'live'!
I thought English books took 12 hours to go live?
Jonathan wrote: "I thought English books took 12 hours to go live?"Excluding tea breaks.
Allegedly. I think Darren uploaded it around 9.30 last night.
It's unusual for it to take so long, although it does say 48 hours if it's not English.So who's written their story in Arabic?
I feel sorry for Darren. I know how it feels to be hunted down like a dog by Ignite :-)
My poems are Greek to some people!I suppose you can't complain till it's been 48 hours?
I suppose if someone has written cafe with an accent, amazon will turn round and say it's not a fully English document!
I think Darren was expecting it live by this morning. Has he left the country?
Jonathan wrote: "It's unusual for it to take so long, although it does say 48 hours if it's not English.So who's written their story in Arabic?"
I nearly always employ neologisms, but can't recall if I did in this story...
Quite a lot of my contribution is written in double Dutch.
Oh cr*p perhaps GCHQ have read it......
I hope they don't query it - sometimes when it takes more than 24 hours for an English book it's because of that.
I'm passing the time by listening to this jaunty little number, by my new favourite band:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenki/dp/B009...
David wrote: "I'm passing the time by listening to this jaunty little number, by my new favourite band:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenki/dp/B009..."
I wondered where that was going...until I clicked
:)
Others on another forum seem to have reported longer-than-usual uploading times with KDP. I uploaded mine more than 12 hours ago and it still has not gone live. Last time it took around 4 hours.Perhaps there is a backlog?
KDP seems to be in a general state of slowness in many ways this month - uploads, support delays, sales, borrows... :(I've heard some suggest that it got a bit overloaded after authors started pushing harder because of a slow September. And, of course, this is the time of year when the Big 6 etc. are publishing for Christmas sales.
Nawwwwww.I betcha it's all Darren's fault.
What? I can say that cuz I know I can run faster scared than he can angry. :)
You still waiting Jonathan? Maybe we can wait together and play scrabble?
Oh, yes! I'm checking literally every 5 minutes.Scrabble sounds good!
Then we'll play monopoly. Bagsy ship.
Oh, you know how to get a girl excited - I thought you said chips! thinking of that steak pie I'm making. (Pffft - girl! Back in the day though....)
You don't look a day over 25 in your profile pic!
Sorry to tell you I am - more than twice! But you're a very polite boy!
Jonathan wrote: "Others on another forum seem to have reported longer-than-usual uploading times with KDP. I uploaded mine more than 12 hours ago and it still has not gone live. Last time it took around 4 hours...."
Yes somepeople are saying more than a couple of days. I had to make a change and mine was up in 12 hours. i know some people are getting "checked for content" so maybe the bot is doing the rounds.
Well you'd never guess!I'm thinking of writing my book out on papyrus in calligraphic writing then hand-delivering it to anyone who buys the book. It will be quicker than KDP...
Alexandra wrote: "Jonathan wrote: "Others on another forum seem to have reported longer-than-usual uploading times with KDP. I uploaded mine more than 12 hours ago and it still has not gone live. Last time it took..."a couple of days? WHAT?!
I'd love to think my lack of sales at the moment was due to sluggish reporting. But I think it's just sluggish sales...I'm keeping an eye out for the book so I can rave about it on all the usual channels!
If it's more than a couple of days, Jonathan and I will have worn our index fingers down to bloody stumps! Can you break your 'refresh' button?
I wonder if http://www.amazon.co.uk/Salmagundi-Vo... has had more sales recently, people thinking it's ours? ;)
