What book(s) are you reading at the moment?

I havent done any online advertising myself but from what i understand you create a google account (you could use your gmail account) then you go to the tools section and select adwords.

You can then choose what search terms you want to appear under and how frequently you want to appear. Also state the max amount you want to spend a month - then your ad will appear under that search term (or be selected from one of the ads advertising under that search term) until your budget runs out. Youll get charged for every click on the ad.

you need select a search term which isnt popular - so obviously dont select 'british authors' or something very common/vague as there'll be a lot of competition for those terms and your ad may not appear.
Its a really good tool but only issue is it can take a lot of time to work effectively - whivh obviously if your writing a book, then you havent got time for.

But give it a go, it cant hurt. And try talking to literary bloggers or offering things on social media to get people to engage with your posts.

 

No worries - good luck with it all!

 

Just finished the Saga of seven suns by Kevin J Anderson. Did well to finish the series tbh. They are very turgid in places.

 

Currently on book two, The wise mans fear, of The Kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss.

Excellent read.

 

End of watch. Last book in the Mr Mercedes triology by Mr King.

 

Just finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

Starting The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick now

 

Brave new world. An oldy but goody

 

It was good, I preferred 1984 though.

Have you read 'Doors of Perception'?

 

No i don't think i have .

Could be wrong though.

I often am.

 

It's a mad book, what the band The Doors based their name on. It's about taking acid to remove the mental filters (or filters on your perception) so you can experiencing things as they really are - for example be able to see every possible shade of red in a bed of flowers, instead of our minds filtering out the differences and just seeing the one colour 'red' so we aren't distracted from more important things. He then talks about being able to open up different parts of your brain once the 'doors of perception' have been opened.

EDIT - I should add that it's not fiction, this is a paper that Huxley wrote about an experiment he undertook by taking doses of Mescaline (acid) in the 50s.

 

there's no finer intellect than being able to blend into ones society.

Nietzsche writing a dumbed down version of Schopenhauer's Pessimism for 10 year olds.

Such a good buddy, good, good

The words dull and brush spring to mind.

 

I've been reading "The Girl in The Train" for a few months, can't find time to finish it.

 

Not even read Supernormal yet been reading other stuff all year and totally forgot about it. Just finished reading Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog and The Cartel, decent books, even for fiction which I'm no a big fan of.

Anyway, your third out yet? I'll start Supernoral and get a copy of the third if its out while I'm at it. Let me know what the deal is between paperback/kindle edition charity wise though.

 

Read this before.

Such a ****ing weird and brilliant, great even, must read. Especially when you consider it pre-dates the 60's.

 

The word "sharpens' is slightly lost on the cover in that shade of blue with the dark back round. Get it fixed Yip. No bad other than that.

 

Jip, do you find writing a book hard work and how long does it typically take you to write one?