Royalties going to Age Uk

It is rather good broomsticks - in fact definitely worth a second read.
But I know the feeling. I need to do more marketing ...

I wish someone would buy the damn thing. It's not doing well this week. They might change their minds about the paperback.

Yep, good idea! Maybe even the Waterstone in our nearest big town.

Age Uk will be able to buy a cup of tea for at least 6 people

In that case, follow up and tell them when the paperback comes out - if there's a local bookshop, perhaps they could put on a window display.

The local paper did, bless them. They even looked up all the reviews and quoted nice bits.
It was a bit embarrassing in a small place.

broomsticks, have you thought of getting your local newspaper to do a feature on you? Ours publicises much lesser works than yours. You could do a press release for local papers and radio stations. You could be a celebrity.

I have just downloaded it as I am desperately in need of an intelligent read - too much of the ramifications of " ladies-only exercise classes" is making my brain atrophy - so bring it on!

Fantastic annodomini!

People cross the street now when they see me coming with a hopeful look on my face!

I've been telling my U3A writing group all about it and my co-coordinator is now reading it. I'll see who else I can persuade/coerce.

Thanks grannyactivist!

I wish someone would buy it now! For some reason the price has gone up and it's not selling over the last weeks or so.
Come to think of it, you probably don't want to buy it now the price has gone up. . Still very cheap, of course!

Hi Broomstick - I bought your book for Kindle just before Christmas, but forgot about it until now. Will read it next; the reviews are excellent.

Thanks. I know it's silly as I mainly read on my kindle but I'm still excited at it being a real book.
I'm being mean to Ecanus too, they did sort of tell me before Christmas but I wasn't sure.

That's great *broomsticks"

And thank you annodomini

Very excited. It's on the Ecanus Publishing face book page ( they haven't actually bothered contacting me to tell me, a friend saw it, but I ain't complaining)

Congratulations, broomsticks.

Broomsticks, Walking Sticks and Zimmer Frames is going to be a paperback too.
Yeehah!

True. It's like Lord of the Rings. I read it over and over in the '70 and then not again until just before the films came out (oddly). I started off thinking I'll never get into this and then it got me again. I reread the Owl Service not long ago. It's so clever. I can see it would make a good thesis subject.

Oh, I loved "the Owl Service" - I deconstructed it in my MA exams. Haven't a clue what I'm talking about now, but I did! "The past is another country; they do things differently there." So true.

Yes, I remember doing it for a book club once and being very offended because no-one liked it except me. They nearly didn't get their coffee and biscuits

Yes the Owl Service was a best selling children's book in its day. Worth another read probably. Alan Garner wasn't it.

Have you read The Owl Service? I think that will be the same legend. She can be either flowers or owls but the rivals always make her owls and destructive.

One of them mabinog. the man that had a wife made of flowers. the other a south wales legend.
the mabinogion is torrid isn't it. full of rape, adultery, murder and betrayal, like the greek myths. not much of it is remotely suitable for children
Sorry you have been ailing. Hope you mojo returns soon. Sounds like a plan bringing those two together.

Are they Mabinogian (sorry that's spelt wrong) type Welsh stories?
Long term I have three children's books I want to rehash and two fantasies - one has good characters and a boring background, the other has a good background and boring characters. I wonder if I can combine them

You just reminded me as one of my fantasies has a celtic background. I'm still a bit lethargic with the after effects of flu lingering so everything seems to much effort just now.

I think you have to go into your account and look at the previous accounting period. Or just wait, wistfully, until a few pounds turn up in your bank account several months later. One of the tasks on my list is to tidy up my collection of Amazon logins - as a shopper there is a log in for amazon.co.uk and one for kindle... Are they same or different? Hmm?
Then there is KDP self publishing. Then if you want to set up an author profile you have to create separate accounts with .co.uk, .com and the other european ones (if you have not yet lost the will to live) . And keep track of all the passwords and which email one used.
One thing about Smashwords is that it is much more straightforward in this respect. Not sure what happens once they have distributed to "other channels" though e.g. Barnes and Noble - do they have author pages as well? (another task to add to the list - look at the other sites and find out the answer)
Have you got a new project on? I have been polishing up two lovely Welsh stories that my hopeless Welsh teacher used to tell us again and again in junior school. 4 years of welsh lessons and all we learned were numbers, about 4 songs, the national anthem and some stories.
I really enjoyed writing the one I wrote over xmas.