Google fun

Well, would you believe I logged on to the interweb to do a post about some of the things people are searching for when they stumble on my blogs, and discovered that Sarah Johnson of Reading the Past has been quicker off the mark! But anyway, here are my own favourites from the last month or so. We begin with the nonsensical ….

ancient rhinos in rance

Then there’s the faintly unnerving…

men in high heels
big old ladies getting it on

The not very specific…

promotion stuff

The philosophical…

This time next year it won’t matter
twas ever thus

The potentially more relevant than I would like to think…

embarrassing book trailer

The crap-related…

crap wirral council
why is BT so crap?
when you think your book is crap

The fashionable…

queen of high heels
nice clothes for laydes

The Hardy-esque…

skellington
hound of the d’urbervilles

My Quack Doctor blog gets lots of search engine traffic (though never a single comment – so, you know, do comment on it. If you want. You don’t have to. Just saying…) so here are some from that too:

borax secret skin water parasites
diseased Victorian family
scaly blotchy face instant cure
curering gray hair for age of 20
fat Victorian women
what is female attraction
horse balls

That lot almost makes a poem. It says something profoundly moving about the human condition, I think. I dunno what exactly, but something.

My book has arrived!

Twenty copies of Kill-Grief arrived today, after a somewhat nail-biting few weeks involving a printer going into administration and a lot of heroism on the part of Picnic Publishing and their freelance designer, John Schwartz, who went way beyond the call of duty in sorting everything out.

The books look absolutely gorgeous. Here’s a photo of one sitting on my appropriately smuggler-ish treasure chest. I took loads more but my camera kept making a strange bedspring-like noise when I pressed the button, and most of the pics looked fuzzy, so I’ll try again tomorrow in daylight:

 

Exclusively Independent

I’m thrilled to discover that Kill-Grief has been selected as one of the ten titles to feature in the Exclusively Independent initiative for April. This scheme, organised by Legend Press in conjunction with the Arts Council, brings together indie publishers and independent bookshops to promote an eclectic range of books. The chosen titles go on promotion for a month, with displays in libraries as well as shops.

I don’t know the full list of outlets yet, but I think quite a few are in London. When I know more, I’m going to go on a whistle-stop tour of the Big Smoke and see how many shops I can visit and take photos of in one day – watch this space for pics!