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Patti (baconater)
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Mar 06, 2014 06:44AM
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Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'll complete you."That sounds like a threat...
Just need to get the screws and sticky tape from Darren's thread.
If anyone else trashed a thread like this there'd be trouble! You two! What are you like?I came here for a little intellectual stimulation.
Patti started it!
Stimulation only lasts for about a hundred posts.Then the thread either dies or gets silly.
But do feel free to be scintillating Kath. ;)
I tend to corruscate meself. I leave the scintillation to you younger ones. :)
Kath needs glitter. Lots of glitter.
That won't work. She'll bung them in the machine and grind the corners off!
She sorted them by colour as well!
Yeah. She's in the spectrum, n all. ;)
I never read links by the way. I can't be mithered. So half the time I don't know what you're talking about,
They were just pictures of glitter. The first one was little cubes, and the 2nd was powder.
Ha! I'm with you there Kath. I rarely click links as well. Except for GL's.I always click GL's. I frequently regret it, yet I still click them...
;)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Just need to get the screws and sticky tape from Darren's thread."I totally misread that as "Just need to get the screws and sticky tape from Darren's HEAD"
Hah! I knew he had a screw loose!
Interesting statistic from a contact of mine in the US.Free downloads during 'Giveaway': 22000
Subsequent sales: 132.
Do you know if the 132 was the same book, or the next in a series?
My free download has proved quite fruitful already, and it's not yet a week in. I wasn't selling bucket-loads before it though.
Freebies will usually sell other books in a series. Often authors start doing free promotions of their only book and then wonder why people aren't buying it afterwards. I really ought to start doing some promotion, beyond clicking on the Countdown deal button every few months.
David, it was the same book. The author has a lot of other work out, but in a different genre.
I'd say that figure wasn't bad then.Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
I'd Like to claim that as my own, but it's T. S. Eliot.
Wow... I've made a bigger mess than T S Eliot.Fame awaits.
Will wrote: "Wow... I've made a bigger mess than T S Eliot.Fame awaits."
fame, infamy, it's all relative :-)
Hmmm.....Would you use a relative's life threatening health problem as a marketing tool? Anyone?
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Hmmm.....Would you use a relative's life threatening health problem as a marketing tool? Anyone?"
Ha! Just commented on that thread. Not sure if it's the overpriced and undertaxed coffee I'm drinking or the post that has left such an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
It's certainly a 'how not to' post, isn't it?And I'm sorry, no, I'm not linking to the thread as I feel she doesn't deserve any more exposure.
It's not exactly subtle is it? A short paragraph about someone not having indigestion chunkily linked to a comparison with the lead character from a book. Usually these types of posts try and guilt you into buying a book with the promise of some of the profits going to a related charity but it would appear that spreading the word is enough in this case.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Hmmm.....Would you use a relative's life threatening health problem as a marketing tool? Anyone?"
I've often considered threats along the lines of "something really bad could happen to you if you don't buy my books." But I decided against it. Figured it wouldn't work.
You've got me worried now David. Quick: post a link to your book so I can buy it for my protection!
Andy wrote: "You've got me worried now David. Quick: post a link to your book so I can buy it for my protection!"Ha! You're just trying to trick me into posting something that would get Patti threatening me!
Nawwww.Gimme your email addy, David. I've got some chain mails I wanna send you.
Patti doesn't need an excuse to threaten anyone, David.I know of one SPA, who has sold a lot of books by the way, who delights in telling prospective buyers that the details of the abuse she suffered are in her book which she wrote to help turn her life around after she found god.
Will wrote: "Patti doesn't need an excuse to threaten anyone, David.I know of one SPA, who has sold a lot of books by the way, who delights in telling prospective buyers that the details of the abuse she suff..."
Leamington SPA?
Is that a football club, andy?
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Nawwww.Gimme your email addy, David. I've got some chain mails I wanna send you."
Oh, wow, thanks. That sounds great! It's...er...oh, wait...
Will wrote: "Patti doesn't need an excuse to threaten anyone, David.I know of one SPA, who has sold a lot of books by the way, who delights in telling prospective buyers that the details of the abuse she suff..."
*doubleshudder*
David wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Nawwww.Gimme your email addy, David. I've got some chain mails I wanna send you."
Oh, wow, thanks. That sounds great! It's...er...oh, wait..."
No dear. Not chain-mail. Not even chained males. Sorry.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Is that a football club, andy?"Err, yes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leamingt....
I'm all about helpful links today.
That's not leamington spa. And there's no meaningful info in it!Jeeeeeezzzzzzz
MmmmmmmfootmassagemmmmmmI'm gonna have many foot massages on the beach next week.
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