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Jim Webster, (In On a Chance! )
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Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)
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Nov 14, 2014 09:56AM
I get excited when I get a couple of views of my blog so I can fully understand.
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Yes, with me it's very similar. Having your blog suddenly run up a lot of hits for no obvious reason can be quite exciting :-)What always amazes me is just what does set off the hits
You'd make like a sheep and keel over!
So people are being very caring and not buying my books in case the excitement proves too much for me?
I just made my regular fortnightly sale, but I'm not going overboard with the excitement, oh no; that 26p is going straight in the bank. But in 6 weeks, when I've got enough for a trip to Poundland, boy will I push the boat out...
I've just come to the conclusion that I can sell anybody's books but mine.If I mention a book in passing on my blog I always tend to put in the Amazon links. They always get multiple hits, so I've done the decent thing for PG Wodehouse, Jack Vance and many others.
When I casually put in a link for my own books the tumbleweed blows across it and nothing happens
I mention a non-fiction book and Patti swoops on it for Dave
I'm obviously going to have to rethink my marketing strategy
You make me giggle.You know what you should write?
A laminated toilet book. Something filled with lots of interesting tidbits.
Dave's got a manky copy of Private Eye in the upstairs toilet where he showers that is going in the bin today. He'll need new reading material.
I wonder how much it costs to produce those plastic bath books they have for young children
Not so great as an ebook, those
You can get bath covers for kindles, thereby rendering the plastic books redundant. I've always wondered why one would give a kid a plastic book for the bath. Mine reads the Beano for hours on the lavatory, there's really nothing to be gained by encouraging them. ;-)Cheers
MTM
Jim wrote: "Yes, with me it's very similar. Having your blog suddenly run up a lot of hits for no obvious reason can be quite exciting :-)What always amazes me is just what does set off the hits"
Very true. I wrote a sort of general, bollocks to marketing, it's a mugs game, let's write post and it's still getting hits and reblogs and tweets. Really weird. But like you, Jim, it's always tumbleweed with the links to my own books.
Cheers
MTM
Yes it's interesting, my top two posts have been about marketing and publishing and stuff like thatCurrent number one is still http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...
Four lesbians in a fast car, http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20... has done well, it gets regular hits.
As does Marks&Spencer's knicker adverts. http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...
(Probably for the same, google related, reasons)
But the one that lingers at the bottom of the league, the one only five people ever bothered looking at, where I just announced that a new book had been published (which in theory is what this whole blogging thing is about,) is http://jandbvwebster.wordpress.com/20...
I felt I ought to have an artistic mission statement.Artist Statement
My work explores the relationship between the Military-Industrial Complex and unwanted gifts.
With influences as diverse as Machiavelli and Miles Davis, new variations are crafted from both mundane and transcendant textures.
Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the traditional understanding of meaning. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corroded into a manifesto of lust, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the unlikelihood of a new synthesis.
As intermittent phenomena become clarified through frantic and diverse practice, the viewer is left with a clue to the limits of our condition.
Get yourself down to http://www.artybollocks.com/#abg_full and get one of your own :-)
I am left without a clue to the limits of bullshit!
Depends how far it is hurled by the fan.
Look, there's an envelope, let's all push it :-)
Is that a line from Agadoo?
Ugh no. Snotty, feverish and now you lot have given me a bloody ear worm. Grrrrr.
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "You're not a fan of black lace then...https://static.squarespace.com/static..."
No but I'll get over it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-Y7...
I seem to have a big hunk of yak stuck in my teeth and I can't find the floss.
Oh! Did I tell you lot about my five year olds in the winter concert???It was so adorable it made my teeth ache.
About 55 five year olds dressed up in black and white, the girls in their fluffiest dresses, doing a Viennese waltz. Bows and curtsies at the end.
The awwwwwww factor was very large.
Merry Christmas to you all
Tsk. My five year olds were much cuter than that.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Tsk. My five year olds were much cuter than that."And hopefully more intelligent with less of a death wish ;-)
Funny really. I just got an email from a friend of mine. She's someone who's been a big support over the years and last time we met up I slipped a signed copy of Justice 4.1 into her bag when she wasn't looking.Anyway got this email, and she commented in passing that she has started reading it and "As I read I can hear you speaking in it"
Well I didn't think a lot about it but then I phoned my sister today to wish her Happy New Year and she said that a friend of hers, who'd bought the book, has commented to her that she can hear my sister speaking in it as well.
I'm beginning to wonder if I write in Cumbrian or something :-)
Well if you do its intergalactic cumbrian!
Oh great. Another British accent to decipher.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Oh great. Another British accent to decipher."Hey young lady, you've been reading my stuff for long enough without problems. The purest English spoken in the western Hemisphere will tickle your ears like sweet music, or the froth on a pint of Guinness quaffed too quickly!
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Well if you do its intergalactic cumbrian!"Well you've spoken to me in person, it's not that I speak with some strange dialect
Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Well if you do its intergalactic cumbrian!"Well you've spoken to me in person, it's not that I speak with some strange dialect"
Apart from the occasional farmyard noises....
Jim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Oh great. Another British accent to decipher."Hey young lady, you've been reading my stuff for long enough without problems. The purest English spoken in the western Hem..."
Sorry, what?
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jim wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Oh great. Another British accent to decipher."Hey young lady, you've been reading my stuff for long enough without problems. The purest English spoken in the western Hem..."
Sorry, what? ..."
The froth from her Guinness is getting in her ears again!
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Jim wrote: "Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Well if you do its intergalactic cumbrian!"Well you've spoken to me in person, it's not that I speak with some strange dialect"
Apart from the occasional farmyard noises......."
That was probably me struggling to stay awake after the experience that was Loncon.
I do remember sitting there listening to the conversation and feeling that I really ought to be contributing but somehow never quite getting round to it
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