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Merry Christmas to all :> Wish you all a wonderful time during this festive period. I will be traveling to Canada to see my folks starting this Saturday and the blog will be put on holiday schedule. Regular publication will resume in 2015!

December can well be the busiest month of the year. Among other festive-related activities, book promotion may be put on the back burner. Besides offering a 25% Christmas discount on my book, I have 2 other ways to promote my book. 1) Adding a promotional postcard of my book to Christmas card 2) Subtly reminding my friends […]

As of last Friday (12-Dec), there are 10 Amazon reviews on my book between the UK (9 reviews) and US (1 review) sites. The average rating is 4.8 out of 5. The highest is 5 out of 5. The median is 5 out of 5. The lowest is 4 out of 5. The standard deviation […]

Another encouragement arrived last week over a coffee with a friend who finished reading my book. He said he had already started taking a painting course that he always wanted to do in the past few years, but hesitated. He is now enjoying the course. I have not seen any of his paintings yet.  However, as […]

A friend of mine who is taking an evening French class to brush up her French told me last night that my book helped her. She followed my example of bringing a drink (non-alcoholic just for the record) to the evening class and it actually boosted her concentration in class. Yes, it is difficult to […]

It has taken a while but the figure finally arrived today from Amazon. I have sold 5 copies of Kindle version of my book: 2 copies from the U.S., 1 from the U.K, Germany and Canada each. Oddly enough the profit margin is roughly the same for both printed and Kindle versions even though there […]

A good friend of me who is a shrewd professional investor and also a board member of a major UK financial film, proposed to invest in the audio version of my book for an undisclosed portion of its profit. He recognized its potential particularly for people who prefer listening to reading and/or long-distance commuters.  I […]

Today I followed up with a few people that had expressed interest in purchasing my book at last Friday’s Christmas party. Some of them recalled it after a gentle reminder of the conversation but some failed to remember probably due to the intake of alcohol at the party (or other unknown reasons). Well, I am sure […]

Funny things ususally happen when they are least expected. Over a coffee with a few friends today, we had a controversial discussion of my hobby as a frog miniature  collector.  I said I had written three blogs recently on this subject. After coffee, I went the V&A museum in London to have some quiet moment alone and I spotted an unusal status.  I […]

Upon numerous requests at tonight’s Christmas party, I was persuaded to make a concession offering Christmas discount of my book! It will be offered at a reduced price of 6 pounds instead of 8 pounds which is a 25% discount of the original retail price during Christmas season.