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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 03 Mar 2013 at 11:06

Hi All, due to employment uncertainties I have been forced to look into alternative form of income, thus I have published my first novel. It is a light-hearted fantasy story set in the mythical county of Lyonnesse. I hope it will appeal to fans of the great Douglas Addams and Terry Pratchett, and those that like something a little off beat. The main character is, of course, a biker, who accidently stumbles into Lyonnesse.

On the basis that I need as much publicity as possible I am advertising it here J.

It is available from amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BNWH4KI

And if you don’t own a kindle a free kindle reader for the PC is downloadable from:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000426311&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=7442400567&ref=pd_sl_6g97entshf_b

and for Mac reader from:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_mac_mkt_lnd?docId=1000464931

It is also available in several other formats from smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/291239

And a free reader is available for Adobe Digital Editions here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

It is reasonably priced and is something to read on a cold wet Sunday afternoon when going for a ride or shivering in the garage does not seem appealing.

You can also follow the books on Twitter

https://twitter.com/LyonnesseTales

And Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lyonnesse-Tales/202978186506930

Thanks for taking the time to read this and if it takes your fancy please give feedback or better still a review.

Regards Rick

Edited by Hairyrickdgw - 22 Mar 2013 at 16:04

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Posted: 03 Mar 2013 at 13:28

daft question but does it come in paper

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Posted: 05 Mar 2013 at 00:11

i hate reading on a screen,and prefer a book.

But saying that,I wish you well with your new venture.
Sounds quite good

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Mike H
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Posted: 05 Mar 2013 at 14:50

Also on amazon.co.uk, search in kindle store

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 18:16

Sorry, it is only E-published at the moment. Like many, I got tired of the endless rounds of rejections, with out it even being read. It got as far as a second read with one publisher but most only take work through agents and agents only take on published authors. I'm sure you have all heard the J.K. Rowling rejection stories. So with work on the wane it was time to do something.
And thanks for the well wishes.

P.S. sorry link is to amazon.com, the book is on the .co.uk site but I copied the links from the formatters I used and they are in the US

Edited by Hairyrickdgw - 06 Mar 2013 at 18:24

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Mike H
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Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 18:52

Yes it's been impossible to get a publisher to look at anything for possibly 20 years, "do not send manuscripts / agencies only", not helped by the little companies, who might be more helpful, disappearing or being swallowed up by the big ones. Books are 'designed' by in-house commitees these days I'm afraid. In terms of, "for next year we want books about X Y and Z, go find somebody to write them."

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Posted: 06 Mar 2013 at 21:26

my sis in the USA has got 2 books published not sure how but i cud check for you

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Mike H
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Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 13:58

OK, may be different in USA

I used to get Writers and Artists Yearbook fairly regular, alarming how the number of books and magazine houses were shrinking, often absorbed by big names like Collins, with the addendum "we do not accept new manuscripts"

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Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 16:01

In UK you need to either be prepared to play a long and hard game, constantly submitting work to publishers who will accept them or get an agent to take you on. Agents are like publishers and tend to pick and choose who they think can make them money.
You might have a netter chance if the content becomes topical in some way - but you are right, publishers tend to plan in advance what they will bring out, they are a business like any other

have you considered joining ALCS - they are the authors rights organisation in UK and do provide advice regarding getting published

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 18:08

I did consider the US, and always welcome any assistance, what put me off was that the book is very English in its humour and perhaps too subtle for the American market.
The book had sat on my shelf for years untouched, I had done a fairly extensive job of sending it off to agents and publishers and even had a tickle from Harper Collins, but as with everything, including books, it is what we are told we want to buy rather than what we actually want to buy that gets marketed.

I had forgotten about the ALCS and will look into it. I did join a couple of groups for writers first time around but that was twenty years ago nearly.

I'm not after getting rich, just enough to get by on. (waits for violins to start playing hearts and flowers). My job looks like it is going down the pan so I dusted the book off and gave it a go.

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Posted: 07 Mar 2013 at 20:25

Congratulations!

R/T this evening.

If you wanted to get into print (not an essential thing these days) then Sam Manicom may be of help and also Mathew Cashmore (on Twitter).

Best of luck with it all

Steve

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 18 Mar 2013 at 17:34

If you want to see what all the fuss is about then my website is now live:
www.lyonnessetales.co.uk

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 21 Apr 2013 at 11:12

I'd like to thank everyone who has bought a copy. I now have two five star reviews on http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BNWH4KI If you have read the book then please leave your reviews as well, good or bad.
Many thanks

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Posted: 21 Apr 2013 at 16:04

Sorry just got this upon visiting your web link lyonessetales.co.uk

The problem appears to be with a script called caption.js

HTH

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Posted: 21 Apr 2013 at 18:27

Yes AVG threw a wobbly too.

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 23 Apr 2013 at 18:24

thanks for letting me know, I've got ad-aware and have no problems. I'll get on to the host and see if they can help.

Edited by Hairyrickdgw - 23 Apr 2013 at 18:28

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Posted: 23 Apr 2013 at 18:47

Still doing it.

It seems like it might be them doing visitors tracking or somesuch. But I'm just guessing. Whatever, malware alerts are not good news, can put you on search engine black lists!

caption.js is one of 3 scripts in the path root/media/system/js/

The others are called mootools-core.js and core.js

Edited by Mike H - 23 Apr 2013 at 18:48

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 24 Apr 2013 at 20:34

still waiting for a reply from the host. It's a joomla based site and I don't know all the ins and outs. Tried it from work and it was ok with their anti virus as well. Have you tried going straight to the site instead of from the link?

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Posted: 25 Apr 2013 at 15:58

Well interestingly not today, either way.

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Posted: 25 Apr 2013 at 16:08

PS: gave me a chance to look at the code, nothing obvious but the Javascripts are written in a way that makes them look like phishing type scripts, e.g. 'a', 'b', 'c', for variable names

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Hairyrickdgw
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Posted: 02 May 2013 at 18:17

My tecky host can find nothing wrong with the website. Please let me know if you are still having problems.

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Posted: 02 May 2013 at 18:22

May madness, and besides the sun is shining! So until the end of May Bubble of Time is only £1.53 on http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BNWH4KI

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Posted: 03 May 2013 at 16:02

Originally posted by Hairyrickdgw

My tecky host can find nothing wrong with the website. Please let me know if you are still having problems.

Ooh this is interesting, not a malware alert this time, but ~

Warning: mysqli_fetch_row() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in /home/wwwlyonn/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysqli.php on line 469

Warning: mysqli_free_result() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in /home/wwwlyonn/public_html/libraries/joomla/database/database/mysqli.php on line 512

Why would your web page need to access a SQL database whenever somebody visits it?

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Posted: 05 May 2013 at 16:32

I don't understand it myself but apparently " the website is in joomla which is a content management system and holds php code files that tell it what to do and the content and users etc in a database - mysqli ..."

Hopr this means more to you than it does to me

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Posted: 12 May 2013 at 11:52

I'm now featured on

http://novelspot.net/node/5596

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Posted: Today at 20:31

Downloaded the book today...will read and review, but looks promising.

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Posted: Today at 21:43

I downloaded it before we went on Holiday started reading it, I am really enjoying the story.... Good Job buddy

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