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[Will]

Great review, Jim

[Jim]

I was chuffed :-)

But now I've got a demon who is going to have to return by popular demand!

[Will]

Demons are fun!

[Jim]

Well Tomb-yard Follies has one :-)

As well as orgies, cider, and interesting beverages of a doubtless illicit nature!

[David]

This appeared in my Twitter notifications this morning.

https://twitter.com/maybeulikethis/st...

(hope the link works).

[Jim]

Well it's nothing I've knowingly done, and don't know how it's happened.


I'll have to see if it does any good, because my last sale on Amazon.co.uk of Flotsam or Jetsam was on the 5th.
But there was at least one sale, perhaps two on .com
Well enough sales to lift if from 2,343,082 up to 154,550 (but of course it was a .co.uk link)

Interesting discovery. I'll let people know if there are any more sales and we can see if whatever it is is worth doing :-)

[David]

The recommendation was a bit wasted on me, as I - of course - already have your book.

It looks like they are using affiliate links on their recommendations. But I have no idea how they pick what to recommend or who to recommend to.

Like you say, if it works it could be interesting.

[Jim]

I had an experience something like this some years ago, something must have triggered an algorithm and I ended up with Swords for a Dead Lady being tweeted by people my late mother might have described as 'underwear models' who of course would be using affiliate links to earn money.

I think I calculated at the time that the book was tweeted to somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people, and I think it might have sold two copies that week.

That has rather jaundiced me against twitter as a way to sell. That's why I was skeptical when that group came along promising to sell lots of books by regularly tweeting them from their site.

[David]

That is the thing. People go to social media to be social, not to buy stuff.

[Jim]

Absolutely. My guess is they only buy if they enjoy the society of the person being social

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Apart from those Libyan AK47s....

[David]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Apart from those Libyan AK47s...."

Well, we all need those household essentials.

[Alicia]

Jim wrote: "Absolutely. My guess is they only buy if they enjoy the society of the person being social"

AND they like the genre and writing style of said person. I can enjoy a person's online comments, and still refuse to read her horror stories. I don't like horror - can't get the images out of my mind.

It's one of the problems of knowing a bunch of writers online - we support each other because we write, but are not the proper audience for each other's work.

[Jim]

We are a very poor audience, we're far too supportive and not bitchy enough :-)

[Alicia]

Jim wrote: "We are a very poor audience, we're far too supportive and not bitchy enough :-)"

Oh, I dunno. Keeping each other sane has got to count for something.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Sane? In this group?

[Jim]

even the elephant looks slightly sad

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Tears Of An Elephant?

[Jim]

larger than the tears of a clown

[Will]

I am entirely sane. I've got the paperwork, somewhere.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You just think you have the paperwork - thats part of the delusion.

[Jim]

what proportion of a population have to share a delusion before it becomes the truth?

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Just the Tory party, generally

[Will]

'If the wealthy were discouraged from entering this House, it would be full of losers and incompetents'.

A Tory MP on the news today.

[Jim]

The problem is that most of the electorate seems to think that even with the wealthy the house is full of losers and incompetents.
This is a serious issue, basically all parties have spent the last generation knocking all the others as idiots and thieves and the electorate has believed them.
ALL of them

[Patti (baconater)]

Jim wrote: "We are a very poor audience, we're far too supportive and not bitchy enough :-)"

Oh, I think we can be plenty bitchy. ;)

[Jim]

I'm glad I don't have to make a living pandering to patrons. Sheep are hard enough work :-)

[Will]

There's a difference between patrons and sheep?

[Patti (baconater)]

Careful Will. You'll never gain a patron with that talk!

[Jim]

Sheep can be trained to follow a bag of sheep nuts. Patrons haven't mastered this

[Will]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Careful Will. You'll never gain a patron with that talk!"

My ex patronised me enough to cure me of the longing, Patti

[David]

Just finished Flotsam or Jetsam. Enjoyed it :~)

[Jim]

glad you liked it David

Only A Much Arranged Marriage and Tomb-Yard Follies to go then ;-)

[David]

All in good time.

[Jim]

;-)

[Will]

there's no time like the present.

I've heard that somewhere.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

So where is the present? I want my present!

[Patti (baconater)]

Presents????

I want!

[M.T.]

Luke! I felt your presents. Leia has bought you a blender attachment for your robot arm.

Sorry.

Babbling.

[Jim]

LOL

[Will]

Feeling presents is immoral and spoils the surprise when they are unwrapped.

[M.T.]

But it's fun. Hey guess who I 'talked' to on Facebook this week? Johnny Rotten! :-0 He's a lovely fellow and he's sending me a signed photograph.

[M.T.]

Sorry, I should probably have put that on my own thread!

[Jim]

Perhaps you it was Will's studied immorality that brought the incident to mind? ;-)

[Jim]

I have a problem.
Admittedly it's not the worlds most pressing problem, and it's doubtless my own fault.

You see, I've been busy in April, May and June.
April, which seems years ago, was Lambing.
May I spent the first half being sort of ill, but then I had an idea for a book.
Not only that but there might even be a tie in with a chap who wants to produce white metal figures for it. Might happen, be great if it did, but who knows, but that's to one side.
It's an entirely new SF story, nothing to do with anything I've previously written.
So I started writing
Since the 20th May I've written 75,000 words.
Which I'm quite chuffed about.
The problem is I've just remembered that the next Benor story in the Port Naain Intelligencer series, 'Woman in Love' is due to come out on the first of July.
I should have been seriously promoting, writing blogs etc for the last three or four weeks and I've done nothing

So really, other than mentioning the forthcoming, has anybody got a blog they want a blog post for? Or whatever?

[Patti (baconater)]

You've gotta work on your sales skills young man.

You better mention this in the morning thread.
And open an agony aunt thread as well.

[Jim]

I'll tell them I'm just obeying orders

[Marc]

Jim wrote: "I'll tell them I'm just obeying orders"

you're welcome to a guest post on my blog Jim. Any time that works for you other than Fridays and on whatever you want to write about your work. Can't promise it will lead to any sales but I will plug your post on Twitter, G+. Just let me know

[Alicia]

Typical writer - head in the clouds.

[✿Claire✿]

Jim, I have a blog I want to get back into doing regularly, would happily put something on there if it's any good? In fact, I've always toyed with the idea of interviews on there but never got around to sorting it, you could be the first if you like?