My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Barrow-Boys-Barking-ebook/dp/B00C4D8CCE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372183587&sr=8-1&keywords=jack+and+the+lad

there it is folks, my baby - complete with a role for 'Essex Adam' among others. I would really appreciate any feedback you guys might have regarding the cover and the description, because these can constantly be changed and improved!

http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Barrow-Boys-Barking-ebook/dp/B00C4D8CCE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1372183625&sr=1-1&keywords=jack+and+the+lad

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Looks like youre getting good reviews, whod you pay to do that ;)

I will buy it when craig next gets paid x

Here is a bigger image of the cover which Nicky wants some feedback on plus the description below and links to both Amazon stores here and across the water :-)

Jack and the Lad on Amazon UK

Jack and the Lad on Amazon US

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Jack and Minty are just like any other cute East London couple; the only drawback is, she’s a bawdy urban myth who’s been doing the rounds for four hundred years and he’s an aspiring LSE graduate who doesn’t believe in ghosts anyway, desperate to move on from the Barking market and make himself into the modern, metrosexual man he knows his mum would be so proud of. Jack’s the pole star around which his family revolves; his success is their staple, his conquests their currency.

In fact, Jack Woodfield has it sorted; he’s got brains, brawn, and sightly bulges. Sat at his desk at a psyche-profiling firm on Cannon Street, he’s a modern man with a lad’s legacy that he’d rather leave behind, along with his fellow carouser, hell raising cousin Hayden. But over Jack’s shoulder lurks Minty Hardcore, the frisky phantom whose preternatural predilection for burly ex-barrow boys might well screw up his prospects for promotion and a cosmopolitan, carefree existence rather royally...

Can Jack’s sparkling City career be saved, or is he doomed to spend the rest of his days bogged down in cheap bling and flexing his biceps, enslaved to that saucy spook, Minty Hardcore?!

And what is the sordid secret of that sexually insatiable spectre?!?

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I like the image, for some reason the font and color used in your name, reminds me of the old batman tv series.

As for the intro text.. I already tried reading it yesterday but I struggled. The sentences are long and I had to check few words. But I am a Finn so that prolly means very little. I will certainly read the chapter tonight.. I wonder if you can buy it even if you haven't got a Kindle. I will try!

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thanks Anne. Feedback like the bit about the text is just what I'm looking for, and I'm going to adjust it accordingly.

You can definitely buy it if you don't have a Kindle. Kindle is also available as an app - I have it on my laptop, and it's free to download;

Kindle app for PC:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000423913

Kindle app for iPhone/iPad:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8

As there is no Amazon in Finland - I think! - you would be able to purchase it from Amazon UK

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I'll purchase when I get home from work/workout!

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I have it. My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon 949469974

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did you get it on Amazon UK?

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US. I could not buy it from UK, something about copyrights My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon 1847146800

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I've had it a while and not been reading much lately in general...

But have read 70% now!!

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Taman wrote:: US. I could not buy it from UK, something about copyrights

thanks Anne - let me know what you think! My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon 3877000266

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And Nicky I'm going to be as critical as you are with Dan Brown and JK Rowling! My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon 3175334217

It looks like something I will enjoy! I shall order it tomorrow! My book - Jack and the Lad - available on Amazon 1762530889

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Denovissimus wrote:: I bought it!!!!

And Nicky I'm going to be as critical as you are with Dan Brown and JK Rowling!

nnnoooo lovah!!

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congrats Nicky!!!!

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buy it, bitch! I named one of the characters after you!

I'll buy it...if I get a mention in your second book.

btw; the blurb is a bit wordy. kill your darlings.

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I want to buy a hard copy! When are the hard copies coming out?

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it's expensive to produce hard copies. On Amazon.com you'll pay $2.50 or something but a hard copy would cost you $10 or maybe a bit more; I can't afford to command those sort of prices at this stage in my career

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darkeyes80 wrote:: I'll buy it...if I get a mention in your second book.

btw; the blurb is a bit wordy. kill your darlings.

I'll look at the blurb Rodney, thanks; what does 'kill your darlings' mean, though?

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well I dont have a printer to print out a whole book. Also it just isnt the same, I need to feel an actual book in my hands, the binding and all

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you don't need to print it out! and you should buy it to support me, $2.50 isn't much! you're tighter than Carlotta!!

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you are right, I will buy it in a couple of weeks when I catch up on bills, yesterday was the first time in a week I worked, and my huband's next two paychecks will be paying for his car repairs.

I will buy it at the end of the month. How many have you sold?

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not sure how many I've sold so far, around fifty copies I think; not sure if that's wonderful or woeful, but given I'm doing it all off my own back with no budget, no media campaign...

a writer like you should be familiar with that term!
Kill off(edit) some those wonderful sentences you came up with. In order to make the blurb more succinct:P