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Just imagine me fighting my way against the pouring rain and gusting wind with a small foldable umbrella (obviously not folded at that time :>) on the beach at 9:30pm last night searching for the beach club. Believe me – It was “slightly” less glamorous than the film “Singing in the Rain” suggests. The party […]

Last night’s dinner party was relatively uneventful. I only managed to sell one copy and distribute 6 promotional postcards until one friend threatened to pour water over me if I did not stop :>. Well, fate has it that today I am going to a friend’s 40’s birthday party in a beach club in Hague, Holland. […]

I am invited to a dinner party tonight organized by a group of good friends in London. And they warned me on the email invitation that rule #1, “please DON’T turn it into a book launch party.” I replied later and confirmed that “After a few attempts, I failed to persuade Raymond not to make […]

Yes, the “link” between lulu.com and Amazon was established 2 weeks earlier. Excellent! My book is now available on Amazon (both paperback and Kindle). The timing is very good (thank God) – It is very close to my big corporate launch on 8-Oct-14 when I will present my book in front of approximate 50 colleagues […]

My protégé for the past 18 months at work had his farewell drink last night. After a few more days in the office, he will be “stretching his wings” elsewhere. I am more proud of him than me (which may be a rare occurrence for some people). He called me Master Yoda. I took it […]

I got the message finally when I asked a friend repeatedly for feedback after purchasing my book 1 week ago. He said “Raymond, your book is not a piece of meat. It does not decay and please calm down.” It is true. People buy books and read them later. A book is not a newspaper that people read […]

After lunch last Friday, I visited a bookstore in North London (Postal code N22). The staff told me that the bookstore is launching a section for self-published books. I thought this was finally “up my alley” until he mentioned that it was for novels only. I glanced over the stack of books that he was […]

After a quick re-composition of myself after the first negative result, I walked to an independent bookstore in the same area on my list. It was supposed to open at 11am, but when I arrived sharply at 11am, the door was not open. I marched up and down the block try to avoid passers-by mistaking […]

I took a day off from work yesterday to promote my self-published book.  The first store was a big bookstore in Piccadilly Circus, a very touristic area in London. After fighting off my habit developed in the last decade shopping in the area (this time I only went into one shop instead of usual 10+, […]

Knowing that my sense of direction is close to non-existent, I thought it would be wise to strategically work out the route on the internet to my short-listed independent bookstores before embarking the journey. I decided to focus on Central and North London (around 9 bookstores in total). Guess what I found on the list […]