Download the PDF of the Independent Paperback Gift Shop Catalogue here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/110809194/Indielit-Scrapbook-Version-2
Let me know if there are any problems.
If you want to attach the PDF to YOUR blog, website etc, then download the catalogue and follow these clever fellows from youtube and this amazing new website.
How to Upload a PDF to your BLOG
Another One!
You can log in to SCRIBD from Facebook.
Independent Writers: has SCRIBD got potential for your business?
Type in SCRIBD into Google and try it out.
Circulate the PDF as far and wide as possible. Let's get readers on board!! :-)
Love, Wizxx
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Some of you have had problems accessing the catalogue on your telephones. Sorry. However, my friend Emma Edwards has worked out that you can go direct to SCRIBD and view the catalogue on the telephone! Here's the link!
PHONE LINK!!!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/110809194/Indielit-Scrapbook-Version-2
The Independent Paperback Gift Shop
The writer of this blog is currently on sabbatical
Monday, 22 October 2012
Independent Paperback News: Indielit Scrapbook Version 2
Independent Paperback News: Indielit Scrapbook Version 2: Indielit Scrapbook Version 2
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Sunday, 21 October 2012
Post Climax Depression
Morning everyone. Four consecutive ghosters and I have no idea what time it is. The dawn chorus accompanied my descent into bleak slumber. I passed the tawny owls perched on the beech trees lining the road and welcomed the cackling crows who took their places.
Ahum. You ought to have seen my memos to management.
Good news.
There is one page to go on the catalogue and some editing to do. Give me two hours and then I'll begin the process of distribution. If anyone can tell me how to pin a downloadable PDF attachment to a blog I'd appreciate it.
I hope you like it. I've written six novels and, with the exception of one, Carla, I couldn't give a monkey's bollock what people think about them - five star or one star, its all the same to me- but shit, I really want you to LOVE this catalogue.
I've gone through a living, breathing descent into a fiery creative hell for this.
My unread classic "The Ritual" took three months to write and is over 650 pages long double spaced. It was a warm breeze from the San Bernadino Mountains compared to this.
Anyway, I'm off to finish. I wonder whether I'll get PCD - Post Climax Depression. Do you writers get that? Finish a book and then can't leave the sofa for a week? I hope not. Newbury races this week.
Take care, Mark.
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Sample Catalogue Page
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| JPG sample of page 22 of the catalogue - full page feature. Not finished article. |
I set up a new file and converted this to a JPEG. If there's an easier way, then let me know.
Catalogue is A4 sized, btw.
Hope you like it.
Doughnuts, you yog, fig rolls, virtual bacon sandwiches and cloudy lemonade gratefully accepted.
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Independent Gift Shop Catalogue
Hi guys.
Been a while. The Wizard's Cauldron has taken off and I've neglected this a bit. Sorry.
However.
Work on the Catalogue begins this weekend.
I intend to feature all 102 books currently in the Gift Shop.
I intend to create an A4 PDF of approximately 45 pages which I will distribute to the four corners of the cyberglobe (though, as you know, a globe doesn't have corners. I do remember some maths!).
I intend to send the e-Catalogue to READERS and GIFT BUYERS.
All your covers will be included, plus links.
Gifted poet and immaculate memoirist, Sue Lobo, has kindly written three poems on the subject of writing which will structure the catalogue.
If you have multiple books in the Gift Shop, I shall feature them together in double pages if necessary.
There will also be Ten Vignettes featuring authors and their current work, with a photo, a bio, links, blog details and a sample extract from their book.
So.
This is what I need from you.
1) JPEG COVERS. If you haven't done so, let me have a decent JPEG of your cover. If all you have supplied so far is a link to your amazon page, then that's fine, but you'll be going to toward the back of the catalogue.
2) LINKS: Send me your current links to the books. I'm toying with the idea of having a separate WEBSITE/BLOG LISTING page, so let me have your blog links too. I'm possibly going to include cover artist details so let me have those too.
3) EXTRACTS: If you have a particular extract (around 50-100 words) of your book you think is a big selling point, send it to me and I shall try to accommodate you.
4) TITLE SUGGESTIONS: What shall I call the catalogue? Suggestions please.
I'm sure I'll think of something else. Keep your eye on the blog.
I'm going to disappear from Facebook and the shop for about two weeks beginning October 2nd. This is going to be high intensity work.
My good friend Mary Ann Bernal is going to be keeping things ticking over for me while I slave in my garret with cutting knife, pasteboard and cauldron. She'll keep me posted.
There is still room in the Catalogue for more books if you know someone with a paperback. But only for one more week.
And now a word from our sponsors...
"I firmly believe that there is an active, affluent, keen and effervescent market for niche, high quality paperback books, entirely separate to e-books. Also I believe that your books are an ideal gift for friends and relatives struggling to think of what to buy as stocking boosters, Secret Santas etc. Some of them are so beautiful to look at, it doesn't matter about the writing! One can just stare at the covers. I hope your sales figures raise the roof. Look forward to the launch party!"
All the best, Wiz.
Been a while. The Wizard's Cauldron has taken off and I've neglected this a bit. Sorry.
However.
Work on the Catalogue begins this weekend.
I intend to feature all 102 books currently in the Gift Shop.
I intend to create an A4 PDF of approximately 45 pages which I will distribute to the four corners of the cyberglobe (though, as you know, a globe doesn't have corners. I do remember some maths!).
I intend to send the e-Catalogue to READERS and GIFT BUYERS.
All your covers will be included, plus links.
Gifted poet and immaculate memoirist, Sue Lobo, has kindly written three poems on the subject of writing which will structure the catalogue.
If you have multiple books in the Gift Shop, I shall feature them together in double pages if necessary.
There will also be Ten Vignettes featuring authors and their current work, with a photo, a bio, links, blog details and a sample extract from their book.
So.
This is what I need from you.
1) JPEG COVERS. If you haven't done so, let me have a decent JPEG of your cover. If all you have supplied so far is a link to your amazon page, then that's fine, but you'll be going to toward the back of the catalogue.
2) LINKS: Send me your current links to the books. I'm toying with the idea of having a separate WEBSITE/BLOG LISTING page, so let me have your blog links too. I'm possibly going to include cover artist details so let me have those too.
3) EXTRACTS: If you have a particular extract (around 50-100 words) of your book you think is a big selling point, send it to me and I shall try to accommodate you.
4) TITLE SUGGESTIONS: What shall I call the catalogue? Suggestions please.
I'm sure I'll think of something else. Keep your eye on the blog.
I'm going to disappear from Facebook and the shop for about two weeks beginning October 2nd. This is going to be high intensity work.
My good friend Mary Ann Bernal is going to be keeping things ticking over for me while I slave in my garret with cutting knife, pasteboard and cauldron. She'll keep me posted.
There is still room in the Catalogue for more books if you know someone with a paperback. But only for one more week.
And now a word from our sponsors...
"I firmly believe that there is an active, affluent, keen and effervescent market for niche, high quality paperback books, entirely separate to e-books. Also I believe that your books are an ideal gift for friends and relatives struggling to think of what to buy as stocking boosters, Secret Santas etc. Some of them are so beautiful to look at, it doesn't matter about the writing! One can just stare at the covers. I hope your sales figures raise the roof. Look forward to the launch party!"
All the best, Wiz.
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