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In the course of marketing my book, I sometimes feel very blessed by people that have given me a hand even though I don’t know them well. There are two restaurant mangers in particular that I would like to mention with gratitude. The first one is the manager of La Divina where I often go […]

Today a friend of mine asked me if I would take a book order from her friend in Hong Kong as I will be there in 2 weeks to see my parents. Yes – it happened that her friend’s office is not far from my parents’ residence. I told her I would drop it off […]

During this week of Halloween, I got 2 requests to be a GHOST writer. How appropriate! Perhaps it is one of those Halloween trick-or-treat jokes :> Earlier this week, a friend, who is passionate about child foster care, said my next book should be on the lives of fostered children. I responded that as interesting […]

I am very happy (and a bit nervous) to announce that I have accepted my very first lunch-time book talk to members of another department in my company in 2 weeks’ time. I told them that there is no obligation to purchase my book after (or before) the talk but I will bring some copies […]

I presented my book in French in my French cinema class tonight. It was very kind of my teacher Karin to let me have a 5-minute presentation and distributed my promotional postcards. It went well and my classmates were very encouraging and supportive. By sheer coincidence, today’s featured film was Irma Vep directed by Olivier […]

I was in a 3-day first aid course from Monday to Wednesday this week. I have passed the exam and am officially qualified as a first aider despite asking my instructor the following questions: “Do I really need to touch the causality’s lips when I apply mouth-to-mouth CPR?” “Isn’t the best way to get water out of […]

I am still on the topic of marketing, so the second M is Marketing.  Let me put together some initial thoughts on marketing. 1) Word of Mouth — It has worked well so far. Thanks to all my supporters. 2) Independent Bookstores — Most of them are speciality bookstores. Difficult to locate those focusing on self-help books. […]

Similar (loosely) to the American classic Dial M for Murder by Hitchcock, M (Marketing) is a matter of life and death for the success of my book like many businesses. I have made 2 decisions on the marketing of my book recently. First, I will put all the profit back into the marketing effort. Second, […]

After a bit of pondering, I have made up my mind on this. I am NOT going back to Paris… until next year. Yes – it was a tough decision for me being a big Paris fan.  I was planning to go one more time before the end of this year.  However, given some much […]

A few of my regular blog-readers asked me why there were no dramas mentioned in yesterday’s blog regarding my friend Gary’s farewell party that I attended last Thursday. Well – they have known me very well. Since they asked, I would not hold anything back then. After I had accepted Gary’s invitation to his party, […]