The Universe, Life and Everything

Eeek. The chaos.
Our house is in boxes - If I never have to hear the sound of duct tape ever again, I'll be happy. It's still ringing in my ears, and that was an hour and a ten minute drive ago. We're down to eating yogurt with forks (or at least I am). Sitting quite happily in the university library and getting up to date with all the work I never do.

The best thing about moving has got to be the forced cleanout. The amount of junk and rubbish one manages to fit into an average sized room is astonishing. Planning again to go to swapmeet to sell my masses of books and other paraphernalia, and hopefully (if it arrives by then), generate a bit of interest in my book.

Now, those who haven't been reading this blog from the beginning - which I really recommend you do, considering all the valuable, educational content is at the beginning - you might not know that the main reason it was started was to be published in print. The current dependence we seem to have on the internet is astonishing, so it makes sense that its more likely that one of the billions of people surfing the internet is likely to buy it, rather than my selling it by hand.

I have a number of problems with marketing. Google adwords was attempted - for 3 days, before I ended up spending $13 minimum a day, and generally more. That certainly swallowed my precious $65 up quick. Though, it did generate the page impressions, and did get me a few clicks. The linkad I had for the Lulu.com site got 72,000 impressions and 28 clicks within 2 days. Adwords also assisted in boosting me up from 290+ on BlogToplist to the 142 it was yesterday (when I quit).

As I am a university student who wastes all of her time on the computer, and all of her money buying drink rounds at a trail of clubs on the weekends, its rather difficult to get the professional marketing and publicity I need. Lexemes: Anthology doesn't exactly fit any sort of niche market that I have discovered. After spending far too much time trawling through the rubble on Google and reading the smallprint on Lulu community forums re: marketing, the only solution for me seems to be store to store selling.

In other news, here are a number of books I would recommend:
1. Any of the pocket penguins. Great for reading while going to sleep, as most of them are refreshingly different and light - and if not light, very interesting.
2. Anonymous Lawyer - Supposedly the book form of a blog written by an American Lawyer. No names are used in the work. It's an extremely funny insight into the workings of a firm and the mind of the main character.
3. Herodotus, the Histories - This I stick with Dostoeyvsky and Douglas Adams. As in, if your house burns down, ditch everything else.
4. A fraction of the whole - Read recently. Quite frankly, there is nothing out there like it. It's so different to 99.99% of everything I've ever read. It is the story of Martin and Jasper Dean, effectively told through Jasper, about their family's life. It was amazingly well written - I found the first chapter on the Borders website, and spent the next 3 days harassing our local bookstore until they brought it out. Once i'd bought it I didnt sleep until I'd finished.

That's all folks. U.L.E will be continued in Part 2 - no doubt once I've washed my car and eaten takeaway food on the floor for 2 nights (we don't have any tables at the moment either).