This has been playing on my mind?

I have been giving this a great deal of thought. My ebook, it's not selling quite as well as I had hoped but I think I really need to put in a little more effort to promote it. So far I have sold 8 and somewhere around 80 have been downloaded on my free promotional days.

The sales, I believe, possibly naively, will come. My concern  is this, as I've said 50 pence from the sale of each book will go to Shelter. This is our charity for next year's marathon and between us we have such a huge target so it's really necessary to fund raise for them at every opportunity. It doesn't take long to work out that to date, my ebook has raised £4.00 for Shelter - not great, but it's a start!. I have though for some time felt that the ebook began because of my brother and his short battle with cancer and because of the wonderful people at the hospice where he finally died, Shelter is quite a long way removed from what it's about. For that reason I have decided to donate another 50 pence from the sale of each book to AICR, the Association for International Cancer Research. Cancer is one thing that spans the world and I thought that as my blog has an audience from all over the world it needed to be a charity that included us all, I like the idea of us fighting this disease together and this charity funds innovative research from all around the world.

Until mid-night tonight you can download for free. At some point tomorrow morning it will be available at a new price of £1.90. Of the profit I receive from Amazon, 50 pence will go to Shelter and 50 pence to the Association for International Cancer Research for each book sold. Hopefully one day very soon it will have a new cover too!.

Viv's Mountain is the story of my first marathon experience from the day I won a ballot place, who I ran for and the reason I chose them, the hours I spent pounding the pavement and finally the marathon itself. My hope is that it will move, amuse and inspire and ultimately that it will raise a lot of money for two very special charities.

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