Funny old day, Hallowe'en...

Two power cuts before 9am if indeed it was 9am or was it 8, 10 or 11? Clocks and other half somewhere halfway around the Aegean in a different time zone didn't help! Dongle works but slowly, though enough to know the Canadian sales figures have taken a spike which I'm hoping is from my frenetic tweeting! Long may it last.

Martin told me yesterday that a woman from Melbourne who's read the book then decided to come all the way to Spain for the one-to-one treatment! Glad the book was enough of an incentive, will be interesting to have more feedback from people who've ONLY had the book!

Oh, and of course darling daughter's my own personal witch so we were celebrating her 20th birthday with cava, bacon butties and smoked salmon - plus of course b'day cake complete with candles - taken INSIDE my 4x4 pickup parked on Malaga seafront. She also had a sneaky turn behind the wheel or six, including a bit of a wheely, something to tell her friends! Then off back to blighty.

WATCHING BOOK SALES AT HOME...

OMG what a todo and a half.. have finally, painfully and at no small cost, got a dongle (inevitably the Spanish choose a confusing word: modem!!!) and with no thanks to my soon-to-be-replaced but good for its years laptop, I managed to negotiate the whys and wherefors of installing Movistar Internet for it. And off we go again. At last. Thank goodness. Slow it may be but dare I complain? Yip sure as eggs I am but at least I'm sitting in my own dining room able to tweet google blog & (to get to the point of the title) watch the status of our sales. A couple of hours ago someone somewhere or more than someone in more than one location bought three books... yay go them. Just wish a Lit Agent somewhere would recognise the media potential and give us the leg up we so need!
*sound of a long sigh*

Someone (else) just bought it!!!

Oh the wonders of technology.... sitting in one of the various wifi locations in and around the village (virus has a lot to answer for) & having checked the sales status about an hour earlier, I thought I'd have another quick peek before leaving for home. Guess what? Last sale on amazon.co.uk was 0 hours... so since I'd been sitting Tweeting someone'd bought the book online. Warm fuzzy feeling!

Flying High on Amazon!

OK it may not be Tony Blair or Katie Price, but we're at #9 for health self help books on Amazon.co.uk and have crept back some on Amazon.com too.... I just hope emailing all and sundry in newspapers around the globe bears fruit so we'll do well somewhere other than the UK. Doesn't help that our publisher's author centre won't let us get access to check sales figures. Yes I'll mention who. AuthorHouse.

SUNNY DAY ... SO FAR.

Sun's shining, laptop's back, OH arrives this evening, book sales still at a higher level than others in Amazon's movers & shakers (how so__??) .
So more on laptop. May have been 8yo's propensity for loading multiple pages of free online skateboarding games or may have been a spam email. Dunno, don't care. Was a foul virus which itself loaded multiple pages at a time & has successfully lost all my word & picture files from the usual place ... though thankfully they're still there cos a search found them, just have to redirect them to Documents and Pictures! Maybe I'll do that outside the airport this evening!
Amazingly with new anti-virus it only cost me €15 which I reckon is the good couple at Inforjam not charging enough. Note to self. Get external hard drive or a megapack of USBs.
To sales: don't understand Amazon one bit. Figures go up & down like the proverbial & as mentioned earlier, seem to be at a consistently higher level than some of the titles in 'movers and shakers'... but then maybe that's a paid for title?? There are definitely some shifting, cos on a hypnotism forum there's quite a bit of interest & discussion.
As to how or why I can't find out how many we've sold on AuthorHouse's website - our publisher, for goodness sake - goodness only knows. Communication being their business they're not that brilliant at it. Martin had to adjust the link from the GmB website for anyone wanting to buy because there was a glitch yesterday.
He and Marion are on their way to (or maybe now in) London for tomorrow's press launch ref the clinic but also the book so fingers crossed all the UK sales will start in earnest once some mags/papers run something & hopefully we get some TV too.
NB in 1,011 tweets I've only had one rude reply!
Oh, and it's sunny in S Spain, yes. !!!

HIP HIP HURRAY! Check it out....http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1319382/Hypnosis-makes-slimming-case-mind-platter.html

Now available on AuthorHouse.... roll up roll up!

ALL CHANGE.... DAILY MAIL NEXT WEEK.......

Anyone who's already read the blog.... not stadiums full, judging from the comments column, but hey ho... there's a change!
The serialisation starts in the Daily Mail next Monday 11th October.
How many words, how much space, how much it'll have been changed, we don't know but The Daily Mail's the place to look.
Oh, and the virus is still going strong apparently, though Inforjam in Colmenar are working their cotton socks off trying to help.... the clinic's computers are somewhat on goslow, maybe because of all the webwork and tweeting about the book! So infotech is no great help right at the moment.

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE (pretty please)

YAY!!!! Naming no names but looks as if we've a serialisation in the offing... signed sealed but not quite yet delivered.