spyguy Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Just now, One-percent said: There's not much mileage in tales of the riverbank drinking cider. seriously, well done on writing a couple of books. Respect Co-authoring. And it was a very small, specialised area. And it was just polishing up notes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 minute ago, spyguy said: Fiction or factual? Ive co-authored a couple of printy books. Way too technical o hard sold millions at the airport. I doubt I earned back my time spent writing them - and it was a matter of tarting up my notes. They do let me say - Just read the fcking book. Maybe Ill write my Memoirs as a Young Northern Shagmonster. They seem to sell well to dried up women. Factual. The tools and techniques I used to reach Financial Independence in less than 10 years. So pretty specialised as it's only for a few. The cathartic bit was it enabled me to get 9 years of learnings that were continually swimming randomly in my head into an organised forever form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Just now, spyguy said: Co-authoring. And it was a very small, specialised area. And it was just polishing up notes. Still respect. The most I've managed were some peer reviewed articles that work better than mogadon. I bet Liam would be impressed too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 6 minutes ago, spyguy said: Co-authoring. And it was a very small, specialised area. And it was just polishing up notes. Agree with One-percent. Respect! Even if using notes you still had to get off your ar*e, formulate your thoughts, proof read it and publish. It's not a trivial activity that I'm sure took you many hours. It's also more than 99% of people will probably ever do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 minute ago, wish I could afford one said: Agree with One-percent. Respect! Even if using notes you still had to get off your ar*e, formulate your thoughts, proof read it and publish. It's not a trivial activity that I'm sure took you many hours. It's also more than 99% of people will probably ever do. It's all about structure and order. We all have great ideas swimming round in our heads, on bits op paper and remembered conversations. The graft is getting it into some kind of sensible order and a structure that the reader can follow. respect to you too wish. I keep meaning to download your book and will. Now... kindles, a wonderful invention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Just now, One-percent said: It's all about structure and order. We all have great ideas swimming round in our heads, on bits op paper and remembered conversations. The graft is getting it into some kind of sensible order and a structure that the reader can follow. respect to you too wish. I keep meaning to download your book and will. Now... kindles, a wonderful invention Agreed 100% and thanks for the hat-tip. I think over the course of ones life 99% of people probably have a book in them. Of course it might not be interesting to many but that's a different problem. Very few ever write it down though. Having been through it now I think it's a shame as I found it very positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Wish, would you mind providing a link or the name of the book - there are loads of newly published investment books on Amazon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 6 minutes ago, One-percent said: Wish, would you mind providing a link or the name of the book - there are loads of newly published investment books on Amazon Link. Doing ok against all that competition : Number 4 in retirement planning; Number 22 in personal finance; and Number 48 in finance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One-percent Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 minute ago, wish I could afford one said: Link. Doing ok against all that competition : Number 4 in retirement planning; Number 22 in personal finance; and Number 48 in finance. Ta, got it. Should have recognised the cover from your thread... yep, doing well. I had to read the two star review. You know, it doesn't matter how well you do, you will always focus on the negative critic. This line I thought was very apt: "...All in all, the impression this book left me with was of a selfish, miserabilist, total poverty of ambition. The writer wants literally nothing but a life of penny-pinching indolence,..." Your critic clearly does not frequent hpc. He/she would be in apoplexy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 minute ago, One-percent said: Ta, got it. Should have recognised the cover from your thread... yep, doing well. I had to read the two star review. You know, it doesn't matter how well you do, you will always focus on the negative critic. This line I thought was very apt: "...All in all, the impression this book left me with was of a selfish, miserabilist, total poverty of ambition. The writer wants literally nothing but a life of penny-pinching indolence,..." Your critic clearly does not frequent hpc. He/she would be in apoplexy It's nothing more than opinion from somebody who hasn't done it or more importantly taken 5 minutes to even think about it. The review is also not factually correct. I also agree that he must frequent forums that are the polar opposite of HPC. But that's just me complaining The problem I actually had with it is that it might turn somebody off downloading it who might have otherwise which upsets me a little as the amount of positivity and empowerment that I've achieved from my journey is incredible. I'd prefer somebody to understand what FIRE is about and then decide it's not for them rather than just continue to be blinded by consumption and the standard of living race that leads nowhere from what I can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledMatty Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I self published a book a few years ago priced at £10 as a PDF. I sold it via a blog I was running (over 1000 sales) and Amazon (2 sales). It was becoming a hot topic at the time but not much had been written on the subject. My blog also had a lot of coverage, particularly from a U.S. news network (probably accounted for 1/4 of my sales). My advice to anyone is to build your own audience (blog, instagram, youtibe etc) around the subject of the book, and then use Amazon. Don't rely on Amazon to do the hard work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. WInston Smith decided it was time to go to bed. THE END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ghost Story Eric walked into the shop, and was greeted by a smiling blonde girl with freckles behind the cheese counter. (blah blah blah filler text) The next day Eric returned for more cheese. "Where is that lovely blonde girl with freckles who served me yesterday?" he asked the portly man behind the counter. "Oh we haven't had a blonde girl with freckles working here for more than 80 years. She was crushed to death by a giant cheddar." THE END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 6 minutes ago, hotairmail said: It struck Winston that his annoying nasal whistling had picked out the tune the washerwomen was belting out earlier in the street, without a care in the world. Winston wished he could feel as free and lacking in self consciousness as she. His only escape was sleep, but now he was wide awake thinking about this, imprisoned in his thoughts, staring in despair at the ceiling. THE END Then Winston remembered it was still midnight in his native Jamaica and went back to sleep. A really really f***ing DEEP sleep, from which he would not wake up from, for, ooooh, ages and ages. THE END. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 7 minutes ago, hotairmail said: He was running fast. Very fast. For what seemed like a very long time. It was the Jamaican 113 metre sprint. But it couldn't be because it seemed to be taking so long and never seemed to reach the finishing line. He was in second and struggling to overtake Mr Sykes his teacher, who for some reason was still wearing his black gown. Then he slipped and woke suddenly and it made sense. He looked at the clock, he thought he had been in a really fu**ING DEEP sleep and it must be time to get up but only ten seconds had passed. He went back to staring at the ceiling. THE END And then he really really woke up, like, he hadn't been running nor dreaming he had been running, but had been dreaming that he had been dreaming he had been running, and now he was really really awake. " **** this for a lark" he muttered, and went back to sleep. After taking lots of sleeping pills and reading a Jeffery Archer book and drinking hemlock. That sort of sleep. THE END. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 4 hours ago, Little Frank said: Piece of p1ss The night was sultry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ghost Story Desmond drove into the workshop, and was greeted by a surly old man with a monocle and a cauliflower ear. (blah blah blah filler text) The next day Desmond returned to collect his car.. "Where is that surly old man with a monocle and a cauliflower ears who fixed my car yesterday?" he asked the lovely blonde girl with freckles behind the counter. "Oh we haven't had a surly old man with a monocle and a cauliflower ear working here for more than 80 years. He was crushed to death by a Skoda." THE END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Ghost Story Herbert stepped into the public library. He noticed, in the corner, a struggling uppity pulp fiction writer called hotairmail, who didn't know his place and kept waking people up. (blah blah blah filler text) The next day Herbert went back to the library to return his book. (A proper book in which the instigator goes to sleep and FÚCKING WELL STAYS ASLEEP). "Where is that struggling uppity pulp fiction writer who was here yesterday?" he asked the surly old librarian with a monocle and a cauliflower ear behind the counter. "Oh we haven't had a struggling uppity pulp fiction writer here for more than 80 years. He was crushed to death by a lovely blonde girl with freckles using a giant cheddar." THE END Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbonic Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 8 hours ago, happy_renting said: Ghost Story Eric walked into the shop, and was greeted by a smiling blonde girl with freckles behind the cheese counter. (blah blah blah filler text) The next day Eric returned for more cheese. "Where is that lovely blonde girl with freckles who served me yesterday?" he asked the portly man behind the counter. "Oh we haven't had a blonde girl with freckles working here for more than 80 years. She was crushed to death by a giant cheddar." THE END Z Nation's done that one! Although I suppose as it was zombies that were crushed, technically they were already dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashmonitor Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 On 17/01/2017 at 0:39 PM, newbonic said: I recall reading somewhere that the average 'proper' professional author only makes about £8k a year anyway. And these aren't ex student dolies dreaming of not having to sign on. So the pro grunt makes maybe £6 an hour. These chancers have go no chance - they'd be better off stacking shelves in Tesco for their WTC. Probably also applies to Booker prize winners so the Tesco thing is damn right. The truth is the book market is about Celebrity, be it autobiography, cooking , slimming or investing. Not what you have to say, but who you are. Also applies to established writers of fiction who can probably get away with crap after a top seller. The amazing thing is that women especially fall for it. The biggest example is slimming books, 90% of the Celebrities who write them after a short spell of weight loss end up obese or with gastric bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad_Ceng Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I write a fairly popular weekly blog on FPGA and electronics. After the first year I collated them all and published them as a eBook and Hardback did the same with the second year too they sell pretty well for a niche technical area. On average sells about a copy a day not going to get rich but it was fun to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Writing an ebook might not make you rich, and for most people making youtube videos won't either... This is an interesting site thoughhttp://socialblade.com/youtube/top/country/gb You can search for the channels you watch and see possible earnings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwiches33 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 missus wrote a book too, Small following selling a book a day, its nice how people really enjoy it and feedback. It is well worth doing purely for the pleasure of it and connecting with like minded folks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 CHAPTER 1 Denzil opened the curtains and cast his eyes over the memory foam mattress. Someone had been using it doggy-style - a couple. And the kneeprints were still warm. Those were clearly his wife's knees - but the other pair were not his. He looked closer. A chill of recognition ran down his spine. He would know those knock-knees anywhere. 'Norman!' he muttered hatefully under his breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedger Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Ad Ceng please provide details on your FPGA book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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