love reading

Just realised that lovereading would probably be very pro tagging - to the extent that they might pay! If I can get them to pay the print then we could have almost unlimited free advertising...

news update

Titan have said they'll let me run posters if I print them - from their unsold space. thus for about £300 odd of print, I can get £30,000+ of advertising. I'm focusing on london south east.

so far none of the retailers have expressed an interest in the campaign - waterstones independent publisher guy said the books should be perfect bound and that they were more adult-friendly than mass market.

I can send a pack to Tony Holdway at woolworths, smiths have been told but not responded. Amazon haven't done anything yet - they've passed on my details to the appropriate person.

current balance

with no more spending commitments, we have a cash balance of £743.10.
some of this is leftover investment money but income from sales and interest on money in the account to date is £480.74

pr packs

the pack, which is a mailbag, 2 sheets of a4, a couple of postcards, the t shirt and three books weighs 466g which means you pay 90p second class to post it (1.08 1st class) there's no real rush on the PR so i'll work on 2nd class post and set aside £90.

print quote

http://www.mixam.co.uk/

got approached by these guys. They're cheaper than our current printers up to 2000 copies, then our current printer becomes cheaper. We'll use them for new runs but not reprints.

orders from Waterstones

6 copies will be on the shelves soon!

more money transfers

£500 transfered in - extra investment from me. Another £1000 will be coming in fom me in the next month or so. the reason for this is that we're printing another 1000 copies of book 2 because of a minor typo.

The typo copies of book 2 will now be used promotionally.

£760 has gone out as the 1st half of the reprint money