9th. November 2019
The week began poorly for Pat, but she
has made good progress now. Her situation prompted me to make two decisions
which resulted in a chest X-Ray on Tuesday and then a doctor’s appointment for
another problem on Thursday. She is now on a different antibiotic tablet because
her infection was resistant to the earlier one prescribed. I constantly find
myself in the invidious position of having to diagnose Pat’s problems and hope
I get them right. I have now added a finger oxygen monitor to the paraphernalia
I use to keep an eye on her. I’ll be wearing scrubs next!
On Wednesday evening I went along to
the Chindi Christmas Book launch at the Swan Hotel in Arundel. You can see the
book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Christmas-Stories-Unwrap-Sussex-ebook/dp/B07WSGPKMP/refhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Christmas-Stories-Unwrap-Sussex-ebook/dp/B07WSGPKMP/ref.
As I mentioned in my post last week, I had agreed to take Beryl Kingston along.
Beryl was our celebrity guest: an author who has sold over a million books no
less. I knew Beryl had contributed a short story to the book about growing up
in war-torn London, so I asked her about that and about living in the big city
during the war (me too). It turns out we were both brought up within couple of
miles of each other: Beryl in Tooting and me in Wandsworth. I lived in the
Garret Lane which ran from Wandsworth to Tooting (about two miles away). So as
you can imagine, we got on like a house on fire. Beryl is almost 90 years of
age and has a tremendously strong spirit for her age. We spent the car journey
talking about London and the book world, and I was also able to catch up with
her during the book launch once she’d finished ‘mingling’. Quite an evening for
me; not because I had the pleasure of Beryl’s company, but also to be able to
indulge myself in the world of writing and talking to like-minded people. Great
evening. I had a friend from church come in that evening to look after Pat,
which gave me the opportunity to spend a few hours out of the house.
My reading this week is a crime
novel by Neil Lancaster called Going Dark (1912946068 is the ASIN number
if you like well written crime novels). Finally I have a book which I’m
enjoying and not moaning about.
On the subject of Amazon book
numbers (ASIN), I have just finished uploading forty campaigns to Amazon Ads,
with another twenty to go. I used ASINs to search for relevant best sellers on
Amazon, and from there produced numerous books through a site called Yasiv.com
(free, by the way). Sometimes I would get as many as 300 connections to one
ASIN. From there is was a case of jiggery-pockery and the confusing world of
Excel spreadsheets to produce suitable keywords for my campaigns on Amazon.
Sound confusing? You bet; it took me hours to learn how to do all this,
courtesy of Bryan Cohen’s excellent AMS ads course. Twenty more campaigns to
upload and I will have sixty running for a month. This is all for my book, The
Boy from Berlin. If all this works, I’ll see a positive upswing in my book
sales which are trickling along the flat, bottom line with an occasional spike.
Do I worry? Got more than selling books to worry about. Wish me luck.
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