My first e-book
| Sat, Jan 7 2012 09:26am GMT 1 |

Eddytip
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An exciting day for me today as my debut e-book published by me at
Smashwords is selling today; not huge numbers, but selling. It is
non-fiction, a collection of humorous (all except one) experiences
of my time in Thailand. It is a fund raiser to help those affected
by the 2011 Thailand floods.
The stories are short and straightforward, so I did not get
these edited. If I can't string a few paragraphs together then
I should give up. I did my own cover artwork too, but here had
some good feedback from Whisks, Tony and our newcomer Sarea,
which you can see helped it to develop into the fine piece of
art - bound to fetch millions once I'm dead - if you take a
peek at
http://writing-community.writersworkshop.co.uk/forum/topic/6517
Putting the stories together was simple enough and doing the
cover was really interesting. So too was the formating
conversions - if you're a bit geeky - to permit it to jump all
the Smashword upload hurdles. And sure enough, as soon as a
copy is sold I get an email to keep my spirits high.
Now when it comes to my period murder mystery (100k words), I
doubt if I have the skills to edit/proof read/cover design
those and it may well be foolish to even attempt to. So any
volunteers, please step forward: I jest. But I am interested in
the marketing side. All tasks to do assuming I don't get that
one-in-a-thousand book deal.
Once I have my blog sorted, I'll send updates of My Thai
Eye's progress occasionally to anyone who wants to know.
I'll tell you once its up.
Eddy
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| Sat, Jan 7 2012 09:40am GMT 2 |

Caducean Whisks
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Nice to see it out there Eddy - and so swiftly too.
Well done and jolly good luck with it.
Whisks
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| Sat, Jan 7 2012 09:43am GMT 3 |

Eddytip
237 Posts
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Thanks Whisks - it wouldn't look as good without your input.
Eddy
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| Sat, Jan 7 2012 10:26am GMT 4 |

stephenterry
1882 Posts
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Well done Eddy - I'm sure it will be a great hit. Loved your
designer cover - brilliant. Had a quick flick through. BTW it's
people lose them (the CDS), not loose them...
amy@thewritehelper.com
is a brilliant editor and inexpensive.
And please send me a link to your blogs and I'll set it up on mine
stephenterry.weebly.com
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| Sat, Jan 7 2012 10:53am GMT 5 |

Eddytip
237 Posts
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Oops, what was I saying about editing! Will sort that out. And
thanks for the link too Stephen.
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| Wed, May 16 2012 04:13pm IST 6 |

Matt Callanan
51 Posts
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Sounds good, well done! Where in Thailand did you go? been a couple
of times myself too :)
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| Wed, May 16 2012 04:16pm IST 7 |

Eddytip
237 Posts
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We live in Hua Hin. It reached 37 in the shade yesterday, but today
rain thank googness.
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