Getting money back from cowboy builders

*Robin*

lisawaters wrote: »

the softcover version which is £24 for a while rather than the eventual price of £30+.

The hardback edition, bigger and with a book jacket and all that fine stuff is also available. It's £59.99 now but will also be sold, when it's been officially published, at a higher price.

Hello Mike, :hello:

Your story on DIY SOS introduced me to MSE, for which you have my sincere thanks - this community and Mike's Mob in particular are inspirational examples of the best that the internet age has brought us. :T

Congratulations on turning your experience into a book.

However - those are hardly MSE prices; for 32 pages?

..Very much hope to hear that all the proceeds will be going towards helping a worthy charity?
Unless that's the case, am afraid your book is too expensive to join my library.

lisawaters

*Robin* wrote: »

Hello Mike, :hello:

Your story on DIY SOS introduced me to MSE, for which you have my sincere thanks - this community and Mike's Mob in particular are inspirational examples of the best that the internet age has brought us. :T

Congratulations on turning your experience into a book.

However - those are hardly MSE prices; for 32 pages?

..Very much hope to hear that all the proceeds will be going towards helping a worthy charity?
Unless that's the case, am afraid your book is too expensive to join my library.

Hi Robin and all

I absolutely agree. They are more than some books but these are brilliant quality - as good as anything in a book shop, but short-run books are not cheap. I make a couple of pounds for each sale, if that helps clarify things. As I own the copyright, I can do whatever I want. Should there be a lot of interest in the book I will look at other printing methods, but this is hopefully OK for the time being. I may need to talk to BBC Books too. I am checking with the Beeb about copyright issues using their name or images or screen grabs.

The PDF can be downloaded which is much cheaper, if you wish to read the whole book.

Thanks to all for the encouragement and nice comments. If you can Twitter or whatever it is you young people do to as many people as possible that would be great.

(It won't let me include the short code as a hyperlink so let me know if you want it.)

I want to publish it also as an ebook but getting that on sale is time consuming. I'll let you know when it's available, but it will be a fair while yet. Getting Apple approval takes forever. I'm looking at Kindle as well. It all depends what the demand is.

The more that are sold, the lower the price will be.

Hope that helps.

Mike

lisawaters

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lisawaters

And don't take the p either.

Aesop

DIY SOS made me cry, and I have probably read the first two pages of your book and that made me cry.

Well done on getting it published. It is probably fab, but I will have to try reading the preview later.

lisawaters

Aesop wrote: »

DIY SOS made me cry, and I have probably read the first two pages of your book and that made me cry.

Well done on getting it published. It is probably fab, but I will have to try reading the preview later.

On the Blurb site when you get to the page turning preview, you can make the display full screen.

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Aesop

lisawaters wrote: »

On the Blurb site when you get to the page turning preview, you can make the display full screen.

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yes I tried that but have issues with my computer. I need to get my work wrk done and then will give it another go x

ps tweeted about your book and I am not a youngster ;-)

Butti

...see Aesop...not a youngster.
...Lisa Waters...not a woman.

Think I've lost my logic somewhere!

Aesop

Butti wrote: »

...see Aesop...not a youngster.
...Lisa Waters...not a woman.

Think I've lost my logic somewhere!

Aesop not a man either

lisawaters

Butti wrote: »

...see Aesop...not a youngster.
...Lisa Waters...not a woman.

Think I've lost my logic somewhere!

Twenty quid is twenty quid.