Tuesday 4 September 2007

Selling myself-oh yes and my book

Well this week still hanging on in there at NO:7 in the Times bestsellers list..

Who would have thought a cheap summer 2 for 3 read would get this far -I am the author and I sure didn’t. Looks like I am still on top of Mr Ramsay & Mr Titchmarsh!
Lucky me!

From The Sunday Times
September 2, 2007 :Augusts sales and Total sales
Paperbacks: general


1 Marley and Me/John Grogan (Hodder £7.99) American couple’s lives are changed when they acquire a neurotic dog 104,105 (104,240)
2 The Sound of Laughter/Peter Kay (Arrow £7.99) Comedian’s memoir, from Bolton childhood to stage and screen fame 88,935 (174,980)
3 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Bill Bryson(Black Swan £7.99) Humorist looks back at his 1950s American childhood 57,305 (311,340)
4 The God Delusion/Richard Dawkins (Black Swan £8.99) Powerful arguments on the irrationality of and harm caused by faith 49,140 (218,615)
5 Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child/Cathy Glass(Harper £6.99) Foster carer’s relationship with abused child 47,265 (47,265)
6 Gerrard: My Autobiography/Steven Gerrard (Bantam £7.99) Life of the Liverpool captain who lifted 2005 Champions League trophy 34,865 (47,290)
7 Confessions of a Working Girl/Miss S (Penguin £6.99) Real-life diary of the author’s first year in a brothel 26,545 (37,505)
8 Humble Pie/Gordon Ramsay (HarperCollins £7.99) How the Scot became one of the world’s most successful chefs 25,510 (191,725)
9 Fear of the Collar/Patrick Touher (Ebury £6.99) Inside story of maltreatment at Dublin’s infamous Artane Industrial School 22,135 (32,380)
10 Nobbut a Lad/Alan Titchmarsh (Coronet £6.99) Television gardener and novelist waxes lyrical about his Yorkshire childhood 20,305 (34,115)


Thank you for buying it to everyone that has and I still thank you if you liked it or not
and just to annoy further have started on Confessions of a working girl part 2, or year two?
I have no idea yet its not like I have much chioce in the matter, the title will be decided by my publisher like it was the last, as to what 'will sell' and the cover will be decided by Tesco as not to cause any offence to its buyers before they will sell it.
That just leaves me less than 5 months to write it ready for next years summer read offer,
And I thought being on the Game was difficult!