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From the Norfolk Daily Times This is the press clipping that is referred to at the beginning of The Nor'easter - if you click on the graphic it is easier to read.

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The Nor'easter has been published I've published The Nor'easter as a paperback on Amazon UK and on Amazon USA . The digital book can be purchased here on kindle, ibooks, nook, kobo, scribd, 24S, Thalia, Playster, bol, Angus & Robertson and Mondadori. It's been a while folks but I hope that you all enjoy it -  please take a moment to rate or review it once you have finished it. Many thanks Tom Please feel free to share this...

Can you spare five minutes? First of all, a big thank you to everyone that left a review or rated The Pink Herring – I really appreciated the feedback. I’m lucky to have a very good average rating for the book (4.75 out of 5 stars) for the forty or so reviews I’ve received, but this represents less than 5% of the total books sold. It might not seem like much but the average on Amazon is just 1.5% per book sold. 

What's on offer? As we head into the festive season and work on my second Shaun Young novel, The Nor'easter  comes to a conclusion, I'd like to offer three people the opportunity of receiving a signed copy of my debut 5-star novel, The Pink Herring  (reviews can be found here .)

For the first three months, I published The Pink Herring exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited scheme. It remains available through Kindle as an ebook, but it has now been published as an ebook on...

Tom & Corrin meet for the first time at the party - even the Ray-Bans were a match Are we really just six steps away? There have been many reports that support the concept -  science  papers, Microsoft adding weight to it, not to mention a game called The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon where inebriated students try to link him to another actor through their co-stars in six steps or less.

Pink Herring   ©   Simon Royer - Natural History in Art I've heard of a red herring, but what the heck is a pink herring? After setting the title of my book, The Pink Herring , I did some research on the use of the term. The results were sparse, but very surprising.

I took a look at the sales of The Pink Herring through Amazon today. Nearly half the sales are in the eBook format and I expect that percentage to rise as time goes on.

... and I'm falling helplessly down it . So, I published The Pink Herring at the end of March intending to spend a small proportion of my time on marketing activity - the majority devoted to working on the next book. Two months on and guess what? I have managed the exact opposite of that proportion...

This was a trailer I made for the book launch. This was my first attempt using iMovie which is an excellent tool for novices such as myself. What do you think? Please feel free to leave a comment or share this post - go on, hit the button of your choice...

Once more taking advice from the great Tim O'Rourke , today I set up a Facebook Author page from which I can launch news about the book to get the message out. Not sure where best to focus on - Facebook, Twitter or even this blog? For now I will try Facebook and see how things progress. Apparently, there's a marketing section where you can 'boost' posts to a much wider audience than your followers... Please feel free to share this - go on, hit the button of your choice...