a good read!

[Kal]

Don't post angry...

https://filmjournal.net/dave1975/files/2006/09/groundhog_day.jpg


Calm now??? Excellent Smithers, now reread my post

As it happens my Viking partner in crime is learning to ride a bike next year (after me nagging him - it was surfing this year) and we were looking to tour Wales.
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[mad4it028]

top job mate ignore the haters youve done exacly what 90% of people on here would love to do but will never get off there arses to do keep up the good work
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[FLV]

heh heh

I said I would kick the pope in the balls, not you.
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[T0MMY]

Sorry buddy, it's just I read "we give 50% of the profit to charity" as we keep 50% of the profit after we've covered our costs.

If I got sponsored to do a parachute jump and told everyone I would keep half the money for myself then you would expect a bit of negativity.

[monkeyrocco]

apologies phil there should have been a coma after you sorry
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[Ariel Badger]

He is not asking for cash so he can do something he likes doing ( A practice that I abhor) he has done something and written a book about it, you get the book and he and the charity get some money. The difference to buying a book normally is that in that case only the author (and their agent etc) get paid.
If we separate this into its separate parts we see that what he has done is write a book and is donating half of the proceeds to a kids charity.
I fail to see what part of that angers people enough to wish to kick him in the balls. Grow up.
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[monkeyrocco]

thanks ariel
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[FLV]

nobody wants to kick rocco in the balls. We were discussing kicking the pope in the balls.

On the charidee subject, hes using some of the money to fund the next project.

[T0MMY]

I'm not angry, I didn't even rate the post.

Point is if a bloke from Microsoft stuck an advert for his wares up on here it would be considered spam. This was not rated as such by most people because they thought it's a charity; I'm just pointing out that it isn't really a charity.

[T0MMY]

To put it another way, I would not be allowed to set up a charity that consisted of me paying people to walk around with buckets collecting for starving kids if the deal was that I kept half the cash they made after I'd paid them.

I could sit at home raking it in

[Ariel Badger]

[FLV]

[T0MMY]

[Ariel Badger]

[T0MMY]

Damn straight...I'd be able to recoup some of the outlay.

[monkeyrocco]

ok i didnt read some stuff properly sorry guys, just got angry cos if i was selling something totally for myself then i deserve shit, a lot of so called do gooders take the piss but i aint. i ran the trip and put in £2400 out of my own pocket, the monkeybikes were bought with sponsorship but not mine i bought it myself, they were sold afterwards on ebay and the 100 percent went to cruck. i wrote the book its not a diary its a proper book and decided to give half of everthing it raises away how many people do that? i aint done it for my own glory ,if any of you buy it feel free to slate it slag it whatever you like, say what you like about me as i said i aint doin it for the glory i just feel i have a story to tell

sorry if i caused shit

rocco
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[mad4it028]

if it was in paper form i for one would definitly buy it but sorry i cant sit reading mass amouts on screen thats why i never read tefs posts...lol
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[colin1]

[hellkat]

I agree with PhilDawsonbloke...

Lulu is pretty good.
www.lulu.com

My ex wrote his autobiography after he gave up boozing (had to do something with his time, LOL) and we published it on there.

He actually paid for a load of copies to be produced and posted to him, and then he knocked them out to his new friends at AA, who were all terribly impressed.

If you want to self-promote, you have to be quite bold to push yourself and your product onto people ... but once you find your market (and don't upset people with spam, LOL) ... and/or use the blogging and normal marketing routes (flyers, ads - preferably unpaid, etc), but it certainly does work

Its not too difficult to get your head around how to paginate properly, break chapters in relevant places, produce a PDF and make a cover - most of which Lulu offer to do for you (at a price) if you aren't up to it.

We managed to produce a fairly decent looking book.
(although I did have fairly extensive experience, having worked in publishing for a few years), but many of the other authors on that site certainly haven't had the benefit of that experience and many people produce some decent books on there.

I highly recommend Lulu.
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[FLV]

[monkeyrocco]

thanks hellcat, alls ok flv looking forward to other posts now
rocco
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[DrDonnyBrago]

Nobody has actually said they'd kick monkeyrocco in the balls yet, just the pope.

I'll be the first...


I want to kick monkeyrocco in the balls.

https://andrightlyso.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/monk-kick-balls.jpg

[hellkat]

Was that with or without pointy shoes?
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[monkeyrocco]

thanks donnybraggo no doubt you will inform me of a time and place after all i shall have to be there or you may have to settle for the pope ps dont think you will be ordering the book but just in case i have to let you know dont do it
after the 29th of this month coz i wont be here to post it coz im off to gambia for a wee while callin in on some old pals in fez first for a chat and to use their place for an oil change on the ccm before heading on down through western sahara . you never know i might even write a book about it.
merry xmas to all and a cold one to you donny
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[DrDonnyBrago]