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R J Askew ~ One Swift Summer
I always compare books. When it comes back that we share no books in common, I have my answer... Are we meeting up tomorrow night?
Good luck with your quest for that difficult 100th reader, or 200th eyeball, I suppose.Again, I'm an early reader of this splendid book, and endorse it totally!
Andrew wrote: "Good luck with your quest for that difficult 100th reader, or 200th eyeball, I suppose.Again, I'm an early reader of this splendid book, and endorse it totally!"
Cheers Andrew, how are your own efforts going?
mood good, absolutely good .. joe bonamassa beating out the blues .. meanwhile this an absolutely inspired n received little tastie .. 14 lines in tetrametre with an ad hoc rhyme .. well sort of .. it looks a lot prettier centred in Times face n BLOOD RED .. will definitely give voice to this one >> ASPARAGUS
I touched my verse just here to be
For you to feel that I'm with you
To love you well, a more, a more!
Alove to give to you to touch
To have, to hold, to know, to feel
Love's unconditionality
I touch just here and here for you
To feel alove a gain alove
To give to you to love you well
To be alove alive for you
To touch to feel alove anew
Love's unconditionality
I set to verse for you to feel
This true made love for you so real
your versir *bows*
R.J. wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Good luck with your quest for that difficult 100th reader, or 200th eyeball, I suppose.Again, I'm an early reader of this splendid book, and endorse it totally!"
Cheers Andrew, ho..."
Not too badly - I'm up to 104 sales now. Things seem to have stalled rather, but that's fine. I had a tale accepted in a professional anthology coming out later this year, which is terribly exciting, and has drawn my focus away from the existing book somewhat.
Andrew wrote: "R.J. wrote: "Andrew wrote: "Good luck with your quest for that difficult 100th reader, or 200th eyeball, I suppose.Again, I'm an early reader of this splendid book, and endorse it totally!"
Chee..."
Well done on making your century. How did it feel? And what the hell do we do to get the next stage of the rocket ignited!?! WELL DONE on getting your story in the prof anthology. Kudos! I suspect we all crave that sort of 'official' approval. I confess I do. Being an indie feels like being some kind of rag-arsed guerilla sniping from some distant hillside.
It felt great, particularly as it was so close to my birthday and the news about the anthology. I've read a few times that 100 copies is about the average number of sales for a self-pubbed book, so I punched the air and toasted my mediocrity! As for the next stage, I suspect the pundits are right, and the best way to get sales moving is to release another book. That's a way off for me, sadly, so I think I'll be languishing around my current 104 copies for a good while yet...I don't care much for the indie life, sadly, and I do crave that official approval. I think it comes down to having a great deal of respect for designers, editors, marketers and the like - they should be paid far more for their services than I can ever hope to offer from my own wallet.
Also, I was at a party with John le Carré's son Nick Harkaway last November, and faced with the best-selling scion of a burgeoning literary dynasty, a single .MOBI file with a pint of beer on the cover suddenly seemed a depressingly flimsy tally for two decades of scribbling.
Andrew wrote: "It felt great, particularly as it was so close to my birthday and the news about the anthology. I've read a few times that 100 copies is about the average number of sales for a self-pubbed book, so..."Well, if 100 is the mean average, the more reflective median may be a lot lower.
Re approval. I harbour a dream of an agent approaching me. I tell her to wait outside in the cold. A publisher then knocks, I politely request him to join the queue. He gives me a slitherly smile and obliges, being oh so very obliging. When I look out of the window I see there are about 15 of them. I get one of my sons to go outside and sell them cups of tea and kit-kats. I then watch in amusement as a large steel cage arrives from ebay and a crane unloads it. I then tweet the queue, which now has its own facebook page n twitter account - naturally, and tell them to get into the cage and fight it out. Being a pack of honey badgers, they oblige. I sell the rights to the cage fight to Fox TV for an obscene fee. And then.. And then.. The last agent publisher standing - a BDSM fesishist zombie in gimp mask and ginghams (who murdered English at Jesus College Oxford)- staggers over to me. This is when the dream turns positively odd. I set said official to recycle the EU product instruction for a range of small-time electrical products. I film the publishing indstry official's ego crumbling as she taps away with a mock turtle toffee hammer. The film I consider putting on youtube. But.. Ach!
Boogger dem dynasties! And boooger all brands!
I *dream* of assembling them all in the same room and welcoming them before turning round to them and saying, "now that I seem to have become significant enough for you to notice my work, what is it exactly that you could offer me now that I haven't already being doing myself"? Like I say, a dream...
Marc wrote: "I *dream* of assembling them all in the same room and welcoming them before turning round to them and saying, "now that I seem to have become significant enough for you to notice my work, what is i..."You cld increase the nervous tension by casually tossing your granade from hand to hand, grinning manaically like Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket
R.J. wrote: "Marc wrote: "I *dream* of assembling them all in the same room and welcoming them before turning round to them and saying, "now that I seem to have become significant enough for you to notice my wo..."my literary grenade has a payload of words. It can be lethal, but has been known to misfire
Marc wrote: "R.J. wrote: "Marc wrote: "I *dream* of assembling them all in the same room and welcoming them before turning round to them and saying, "now that I seem to have become significant enough for you to..."pull the pin ! I'm not exactly stuck on my FF .. I've just had to pause for life events .. did I tell you my company refused my bid to leave .. said I was 'too good to go' .. bugger .. must re-read Catch 22 to get a few tips on how to leave the war zone .. you cldn't lend me a grenade or two cld you .. a little outrage in the newsroom might get me my exit .. I suppose I cld always do a Yossarian and clamber up the atrium in the buff while scattering biz cards down onto the assembled audience of accountants and marketing brandheads for Watching Swifts
hurrah, 105 sales now .. might reach 200 by about Jan 2015 .. still, no rush.
new product, new product, new product .. http://itweetyounot.com/ .
. don't think it's going to make it on Kindle though as the kindle just kills the visual feel of anything that doesn't look like a company report and accounts
.. gonna tweet this to death .. the title of the product is also the webbies name, I tweet you not!http://itweetyounot.com/
.. all nailed down, I tweet you not!
I tweet you not .. my verb is hot, hot, hot >> http://itweetyounot.com/
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look into my eyes ..http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
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eyes looking at eyes ..how should a writer see life ??
how should life see a writer ??
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I think you need tweetment for this!
eyes in eyes lionise terrorise stigmatise win the prize http://itweetyounot.com/11.html http://itweetyounot.com/11.html http://itweetyounot.com/11.html
I can categorise that my demise will not surprise
and that the sun will rise in summer eyes
I'll have that with fries
Meet your author in full winter wear .. well it was c-c-cold .. and I'm looking grim as I've just arrived in my cage (office) http://www.goodreads.com/photo/author...
Living the life of wryly?
left-handed smile .. tough sell this one .. 3rd verse .. http://itweetyounot.com/2.html .. i tweet you not is catching on though, i tweet you not
if you ask, or at least surf, you get a lot of advice in this indie publishing world. A lot of it is contradictory. So how do you resolve on what is good advice and what is less so? Well you probably can't. But what you can do is stay true to your own artistic vision that made you want to pick up a pen and write in the first place; the artistic vision you have for each and every story or poem or collection thereof.
gonna squirt this bundle of joy into a wild flash fiction - if I can ever wrestle it down from 1500 words to 1000 (The term 'as pissed as a newt', should perhaps be 'as pissed as a mute', mutes being professional mourners who wld attend funerals as silent friends of the deceased, standing outside said deceased's house, or the portals of church or cemetery, to usher the spirit on its way with a solemn touch of high visual drama. It was customary to ply them with drink afterwards. Not a bad job, all things considered. For a resting actor perhaps. Or one of those street artists who pretend to be statues. Given a gloomy enough visage of course.)
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TO MY MUTES TWO
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Hail! silent sentinels of death!
Your hats shall be steam-punk stovepipes
Tall, black, outblacking black, jet, noir
.. shall be your crepe a-swadling heads
Beards dyed death adumbral, black inked
My ink shall die in every eye
Indelible not .. my life's run
And you, mute sirs, black-caped, silk-gloved
Stand, without my door, standards raised!
Black-draped and dripping doom, stand!
Mute, shudd'ring as you feel death .. pass ..
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A drink in this for yous, I swear't
Adieu, mutes! you've stood me proud
Now to the bar .. let life be loud!
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Blog on this indie author's experience fo the great game to date .. short scroll to ONE MORE ONE MORE >> http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
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.. satire *bows*
1200 words of sabre-toothed satire http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
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.. from deep within the indie author mosh pit
just a few thoughts on this great game of all the talents .. ONE MORE ONE MORE .. monday blog http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
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.. satire
I can't write a straight blog .. here's a satire on wee indies .. short scroll to ONE MORE ONE MORE .. our battle cry .. http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
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ONE MORE ONE MORE .. attempt to draw the odd eye .. short scroll to a short satire on the indie author cage fight .. http://itweetyounot.com/8.html
Feel summer caress your face when you read >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/WATCHING-SWIF... #snow #ice #arctic #chillfactor #weather #kindle #ebook #romance
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OK, so that is how it works. They send me their friend requests. I reply with a personal msg and then accept the request. I then never hear from the bulk of them again. Until! Until, o until! I am invited to join in their 'event'. Now of course, am I in a good state of mind to join the event? No.
Henceforth, I will send a msg BEFORE accepting a friend request. Only if I get a reply..
I will be suspicious of anyone who approaches me with 1,686 friends as I will know how it will be with them.
I will choose my friends carefully. In fact, I will sift through the ones I have and delete any who don't reply when I msg them.
Let friends be .. friends.