February 18, 2012

• Hello Dear Friends,

  Here is the latest update on my book, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” and that is what I have to write this month.  If you go to my Amazon site where people have so generously written in their regards and what they think of my book after having read it;  Then all of the world seems very rosy!  The truth is that I am out here treading water for new ideas of how to advertise a book that is getting real and not contrived five star ratings.  I think we can safely assume that people do not feel up to endeavoring to sell twenty copies for a free trip to San Francisco, and it did not fit in with Valentines plans for this year, so what next amazing thing can I possibly do to entice you a book which is thought of so highly by the readers.

  There are so many guides and how tos about selling self published books that I should know it all by now, and I have failed to do the one thing which is highly suggested, that one join a writer’s group, many writer’s groups, and then you sell books to your friends, and book by book, and as you get along with the other writers, then you can hope for a reputation and that maybe you can get out of the book what you put in to it.  I want to know how many Xangans are on Xanga to promote their skills as a writer.  I would love to hear from you, and Lord being my witness;  Please do not go in to self publishing without talking to me first, for you are a child of God, and I do not want you to get your heart  broken.

  Do I have a broken heart now?  I think that I have not turned over the last field for planting yet, and I have sought input from several of you about this writing thing, and I have come up with the bigger question of:  How does anyone sell enough of anything on the internet to make it worth their advertising and getting out their to spend for marketing folks as well as to make enough money to have their own small company.  I want you to understand that real internet advertising cost a whole lot of money, and it is money that is absolutely a gamble.  If you have a product like perfume, a purse, a nice pair of men’s undergarments that make them look like a body builder with constant wear;  Then you have a product, and up until the past two years, a book was more of a product.  Now it is something you do not have to own unless you know and love the person or if the subject matter appeals to the population, because you are a star;  You are an astronaut; or you are just selling, “Your Self,” as the product, somewhat like the Khardasian sisters or a certain Hotel grandaughter who was just born gorgious, uninhibited, and got her name on every non sacred magazine in the country as our darling, Paris Hilton, did especially in her wildest party days.  So yes;  one can sale themselves if their is something unique about them, something which causes other products to fly out the window such as certain shades of lipstick or a scent that is uniquely the delight of such a person who only has to be beautiful and open to letting their private world to become a side show.

  Information on the internet is free, so how much do you want to pay extra for information which is so extensive that in your lifetime you could `chisel at it, and you could not even leave an imprint of your having been there.

  I am at a loss.  My book, according to those who are reading it, deserves great recognition, so what can I do to make it a product that people buy, and I did include sexual interludes, because they are a part of our passage which helps us tremendously or turns us in to very lonely people depending on our choices when our body chemistry is exploding like a volcano which runs down and on out to the sea.  The book is a good story, and I thought that was a product, but bless your hearts, for a lot of you have some powerful stories to tell on your own, and maybe they are not published, but every one of you have a life which is incredible in some way.  If you learn nothing else from me;  Know that you are beyond measure a unique human being, and I pray that that uniqueness has brought you Faith, Hope, and Love, the words of our beginning and the words well said in our passing, always appropriate for any time you need to share a tribute to some person or, on a down day- Apply such words to yourself, because you deserve them all.

  I am beginning to just ask questions, the if you were me, then what is the best route to take.  I have a couple of Xanga friends who have stuck in and have lifted me like no others at my darkest moments, and you know who you are, my appointed angels;  Oh yes, you know who you are, and you like me, would have a cloak for a cold and broken soul.  That is the story of how some of us get off in this life, the little ways which help others to know they are not trash or throw away people.  No one who seeks love has to go without love, and some search for it in very heart breaking places, not considering how their behaviors effect anyone but them.

  Weight loss;  Now does my book contribute to weight loss, for that along with sex, outward beauty, and longevity in regards to life;  All of these things sell for a time until we awaken and realize we’ve bought another useless diet book, our how to sex manuals have long been burned as useless to what one with imagination can figure out on their own, so we are getting past the point where folks fall for all of these how tos anyway when sex education and dieting are now drilled in second only to a few yeaars of learning to read and coping with the more taxing chemisty, xciences, mathmatical, and other higher learning which is way beyond me;  But my book is challenging, and it holds mystery, humor, though it is dark.  You might could lose a few pounds if you would walk with it to a favorite reading spot and forget the cheese on the burger for a year or so, but wait;  I do not want to be a diet book writer, and sex?  I come unglued with some of the stupid things people do to get their bliss;  Oh Please”  If you are cutting off your airway, then you are playing with the devil I do not care how long the extra orgasm is, for doing that kind of trash is suicidal, and you know it.  By the time you are older, if you get older, then you are apt to be a miserable, lonely, perverted human being, because you do not know where to draw lines.

  How do I sell books though???  Mine is a good book;  Just read the reviews, and mine can change the lives of younger people who live even worse lives than I did, for at least a few older people knew when to step in, for they were God sends.

  I am going to tell you that I am going to add little packages to the ones who order directly from me, but it will be just little charms or treats to thank you for buying the book, and if you  order from me, it will always take longer; but I have a book to sell you, and it is about a life which almost ended, because this world just seemed too hard to bear, and from it you will learn that even children can get through some of the most dangerous of times, because someone appears, and they are your guides.  I want you to know about angel, guides, and that every child needs extra attention, for that child that says the least may be the one that has an existence so beyond the realm of your imagination that only you can save them in a moment, in an hour.

  So, for those who want to sell me, “How To Books,” I feel really sad, for pretty soon they are going to be on the thrift store shelves with worn out cook books.  You cannot write a best seller without some Divine Intervention, so I shall end this day with the prayer that one, “George Clooney,” reads my book and knows that the most incredible attrocities that he saw in Darfur may have been nearer his own back steps than he ever knew.  God;  Take this message to George, for I need a hand, and for the already outstretched hands, I am your servant in faith and in hope that we will all celebrate this story together, For the ending leaves you knowing that Love is surely, fully, and wholly the end and the answer to all things.

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