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PUBLICATION ON 10TH DECEMBER 2020 - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW!

Following many painful delays, partly due to Covid-19 slowing every part of the process that was out of my control down, and partly due to the fact that my project coordinator wasn't upto the job and had to be moved on and replaced by a faster and more efficient man, my book MAN STRUGGLING WITH UMBRELLA was delayed and delayed and delayed some more, but it is now definitely scheduled for release on December 10th. It is already showing up to pre-order on Amazon and Waterstones, and it's even possible to leave a review of it on Goodreads (a little premature if you ask me).

My publishers, Austin Macauley, are very keen for me to engage my potential audience as much as possible via social media. We knew that. That's why this rather premature and sadly neglected blog was set up in the first place. But since I created this blog back in March I have become convinced that FACEBOOK is really the ideal spearhead and I should be using that as a Command HQ. I have also become convinced that posting videos on YOUTUBE is a great idea so I'm doing that too. Furthermore, I have set myself up on AMAZON AUTHOR CENTRAL and I have applied for Author Status on GOODREADS, which I'm hoping will be granted in the next day or two. And besides all this of course, my publisher AUSTIN MACAULEY will be doing their own bit to promote me and my work on their own website and through events and reviews that they will arrange for me.

The bottom line is that this blog now looks like the ugly sister and has five serious competitors already. One of the reasons I wanted to set up this blog was that I didn't want anyone else cashing in on my "KILLING TIME ON THE OTHER SIDE" domain name, and I have achieved that objective just by claiming it. Frankly there's not much need for this blog now. It's been rendered obsolete. So I probably won't be here much from now on, if at all. 

If you want me, you know where to find me. I HAVE DECIDED NOT TO BOTHER WITH TWITTER OR INSTAGRAM  because I am already on so many other useful sites, so if you see anyone on there pretending to be me, just ignore them!


All the best to you and yours

PJM



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