Book of the month…

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And so the day has arrived.

What day?

The day that Erasure gets listed as ‘book o’ the month’ on the much visited, irreverent blog, Blogging Dangerously. It’s a fun blog, sometimes with a serious message, but mostly about the trials and tribulations of a Mother, Wife, Lover and a personal device called Carmen Electra (more recently usurped by another device called Siri, and we aint talking apples here).

Yes, the fabulous Kit will be singing the book’s praises to her connections and, more importantly, adding it to her book club.

Most exciting.

What is more exciting is that for all of July I’ll be donating $1 from every book sale to a yet to be decided charity. For those of you who aren’t enjoying the wonder that is a published book of one’s own, $1 equates to either 50% or 80% of the total after tax proceeds from each book. (depends which country you order from).

Yes, I know I currently reside in a country without a tax system, but because I sell my book exclusively through American owned/based companies, they hold 30% in tax for me. Well, not FOR me, they collect it on my behalf, hopefully it will go to repairing a pothole in a road somewhere. That would be far too wonderful.

I know. you’d think that there was more in the bucket wouldn’t you? Well there is, but amazon take a large scoop of it, then tax what’s left. Which is perfectly fine, in fact I’m only banging on about it so you, dear reader, don’t think I’m using the charity angle to make a stack of cash for myself thus enabling me to get my yacht/gold-plated-porpoises ensemble.

Yet to be decided charity?
The idea of charity is a tricky beast. Well, not charity itself, but the decision on which charity to lob wads of cash at.

• The book is dedicated to Melanie, a friend of mine who died last year at age 30 of heart disease. So a heart charity is an obvious choice.
• I’ve also had friends fight and beat cancer in the last couple of years, so for me that’s a tick as well.
• Depression and related illness? Yup, a little too much experience with such things, so that’s a tick too.

See what I mean?
It’s a little too, choosey if you take my meaning. Depending on the amount that is accrued I’ll probably split it between suitable charities from the check-list above.

Nonetheless there will hopefully be a sizeable wad to disperse at the end of the month, and I’m up for any input people might wish to add. If it’s too personal a thing for you to add your suggestions to the blog, shoot me an email to athwebber at gmail dot com. (apologies for the spelled-out email thing, but having a post primarily about charity will have the search bots filling my inbox with junk otherwise)

It would be a dream to be able to donate a thousand bucks. And  impossibly fantastic if at the end of the month there was 50k to disperse to charities – but I’ll take what I can get. It really depends on how much people are willing to talk about the whole concept, and how much they recommend the book for July.

Kit won’t have posted her links/got the ball rolling yet – due to time differences etc. but please feel free to get the ball rolling. Simply share this post with whatever social media stream takes your fancy, OR if you have any better ideas, try them out.

The book can be purchased in Kindle format AND paper back at:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0087QG37S – US Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Erasure-series-ebook/dp/B0087QG37S – UK Amazon.

All other readers (and for those who simply prefer to buy their eBooks from anywhere BUT Amazon, smashwords has you covered: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/167457

More news as it comes to hand. (along with a less wordy post)