h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

well, i am slowly selling some of my "pulses" short story collection on lulu.com

the story goes like this ..... "Pulses" was placed in a short story competition hosted by "chapter one promotions" ... a fine looking little outfit who run an annual competition .... (which, i am led to believe, attracts a reasonably large entry) ... that was in 2005 .... and there was to have been a book published in 2005 - and another in 2006 and 2007.

Of course the long awaited books have not appeared and so, despite the contract that was to have held good for 2 years, i decided to publish a few of my own short stories (including aforesaid "pulses") on lulu.com ...no upfront monies is required, copies are paid for by the purchaser as they order them and so it's really a no risk venture...how lulu makes money is beyond me.... but still....

anyway... it took a couple of attempts to make sure that the layout was correct....but i think it is now..... and people are, as i say, starting to buy the book. The download is very cheap - around £1.70 i think .... and the book is ok at about £6.60ish.

clearly you would never put your "baby" novel out there on lulu.... but for short story collections it seems like an interesting idea..... i think i'll maybe sell a few hundred (unless of course hootoo people in their droves to buy it ... * in which case who knows....

but the experience has been interesting .....though i had to remove the sexy cover photo for reasons of space.... (ahem)

* if you did run to buy it and couldn't find it .... go to lulu.com and type "pulses" in the search box on the top right hand corner.

now if that wasn't a shameless hustle i don't know what is!