William Aleksander Granger van Niekerk's blog
2007 Dec 11 When I finish Murder Myth and Tea, I am definitely going to try and publish it. The Normal way. There's just NOTHING on lulu. NOBODY buys. And Yes, i mean NOBODY. The top selling person must have sold about twenty, and the rest of us? Well I for certain don't find myself buying like crazy! And do you people reply when i leave a comment that isn't saying "yes I love your book i want your babies"? The answer is NO!!! Non, no, no, no, no no no no NO!
2007 Dec 10 Hello all people that read blog posts of other people. You are strange people, but I have no doubt that you did not leave your laptop cable in the darkest, dankest corner of Hell, where only the most brave souled of the demons dare to venture... Of course, children below the age of eighteen go there frequently. Its other name is school, and I have made the stupid mistake of leaving my laptop cable in the common room, and knowing my "friends", as a foolish, inexperienced teacher might refer to them, it won't be there long, and if it is, it will be covered in chewing gum and bodily fluids, and quite possibly (the horror that it is) it will have been on the common room floor. Which quite the worst place anything can go. EVER. And I really mean it. 
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The senile workings of a juvenile mind, brought to you by the fragile alliance of the two halves of my brain.
INGREDIENTS:
Murder (max 7%), violence (max 48%), romance (max 87%), magic (min 3%),
science (trace), mythical creatures (min 2%), flavourants (tea,
chocolate, licquorice), colourants (watercolours and acrylics),
hormones (may vary with stages of adolescence)
WARNING: Products may contain traces of Religion.
Ingredients - no religion, nuts or dairy products. Factory - product
made on line sometimes used for religion-based sentences. Product - may
contain traces of religion.
SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIENS.
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Download: FREE The first... not quite a hundred pages of the sequel to 70689AD. Free Download until Tuesday, or you can read it all in the preview. Obviously, it's not finished, as there hasn't exactly been much murder yet.
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Download: $45,372.05 Competition entry for www.lulu.com/groups/advertise, from Phil MacGiollabhain. Short story, all available in the preview.
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Download: $453,720.51 Michael Jaquish's entry for the Advertise Your Book 2008 Competition, an extract from an upcoming (?) book of his.
price is supposed to be offputting - whole story can be read in the preview.
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JackJack (book)
Download: $0.36 Hardcover Print: $36.30 This book is a collection of all the stories about Jack and his family that were written before 70689AD, excluding the unfinished work "Isolated Incident", which is a film script, instead. Please note that not all of the details in this collection are consistent with the later book, 70689AD, or the work in progress "Murder, Myth and Tea"
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ElenaElena (book)
Download: $0.27 My entry for the AYB competition... Danny Strong will go to the Suspense/Thriller Guild when I'm done with it. Writing in American is proving time consuming, so Danny Strong isn't finished yet...
anyway, back to Elena. She turned Espurges halfway through, so be warned that there may be a little wierdness. Not fantasy, though, which is unusual for me.
All of it is available in the preview.
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Download: $453,720.51 Competition Entry (Poem) for Advertise your book competition, from Matthew Abuelo. The poem in its entirety is available in the preview, so unless you really want to, don't spend 250 000 pounds downloading it.
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Download: $226,860.25 Competition entry for the Advertise Your Book group's contest, closing on the 29th of February, from Mark E. Tyson. The price isn't being asked of you - all of it can be read in the preview. You're not supposed to buy it until it's in one big book.
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Print: $4,541.98 COMPETITION ENTRY FOR www.lulu.com/advertise COPYRIGHT TO RAYMOND WALKER.
And no, you're not supposed to buy it from here. The price should be more than a little bit disuasive. The content is all visible within the preview.
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Download: $18.15 Hardcover Print: $18.15 Same as the paperback, with one or two little extras that aren't in the paperback any more!
also no chapter divisions.
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Print: $17.24 A collection of pictures of the collision between human and animal societies, all taken by myself and my sister.
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Print: $20.78 Landscapes from the two places that, one way or another, I live in.
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Print: $11.80 Download: $2.27 A warped, darkly humourous and deeply disturbed tale of a future of magic, technology and discrimination, written by a young British author.
This is the second edition, which has also been re-worded in parts to add clarity, and it has now got some new sections, including About the Author, and All the things I've always wanted to say...
A volume of illustrations and explanations relating to the novel will be published separately at a later date, as will the sequel, "Murder, Myth and Tea."
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