Jim Williams - Author - Guest Book
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Sharp thininkg! Thanks for the answer.
Caro
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:30:31 PM GMT (176.34.173.194) | Hi, Just read the other messages. I'm looking to buy multiple copies of your latest book, so perhaps you can direct me to the best source - otherwise its Amazon!It would be nice to have signed copies, but not crucial!
Vera
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:12:29 AM GMT (89.241.252.110) | Hi Jim,
Does Isabel receive commission? She's doing a great job advertising your books.
Sorry I missed the recent book signing.
I tried to buy the English Lady Murderers at Waterstones, but they were out of stock - I hope that's a good sign.
Vera
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:05:43 AM GMT (89.241.252.110) | Any aspirant author needs to consider a marketing plan for launching the finished work. Having just found a publisher for THE ENGLISH LADY MURDERERS' SOCIETY, I produced costed plans for the following alternatives, which I offer to the world:
PLAN A The book launch party
Income 50 book sales @ £10 = £500
Expenditure
Cost of 50 books x £6 = £300
Gift to charity: 50 x £2 = £100
Glass wine and nibbles: 100 x £5 = £500
Hire of room = £100
Musician = £30 (drink and drugs extra)
Total expenditure: £1030
Profit/(loss) = (£530)
PLAN B Reschedule party for 9am, Christmas Day no one comes musician too drunk to appear
Income Nil
Expenditure
Hire of room: £100
Cost of 50 unsold books; 50 x £6 = £300
Profit/(loss): (£400)
PLAN C Forget the party, give everyone a book plus £1 to take it away
Income Nil
Expenditure
Cost of 50 books x £6 = £300
Carriage : 50 x £1 = £50
Profit/(loss ) = (£350)
PLAN D Forget the whole idea tell no one burn books
Income nil
Expenditure
50 books @ £6 = £300
Fire lighters = £2
Profit/(loss) = (£302)
PLAN E Forget books altogether forge publishers invoice claim insurance for fake fire buy drink and drugs with proceeds and sell to musician
Income
Insurance pay-out on 50 destroyed books after £50 deductible = £250
Sale of drink and drugs at 100% mark-up = £500
Total income = £750
Expenditure
Drink and drugs at cost = £250
Profit/(loss) = £500 (excluding cost of lawyers and prison visits)
The Author
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 7:20:52 AM GMT (127.0.0.1) | Jim,
You asked about a version of Absence of Grace for your kindle. If you send me your email address, I'll send you a PDF version. And could you perhaps do the same for me. It would be so nice not to have to sit in front of the computer to read Tango.
Ann Warner
Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:56:22 PM GMT (66.42.222.224) | You will probably remember my father Jim Howard who was a good friend of your father.
Robert Holt
Friday, September 30, 2011 6:01:16 AM GMT (90.13.241.124) | Hi Jim, I am a law professor from Australia specialising in copyright law. I am researching controversies relating to character appropriation, and I would love to talk with you some time about Lara's Child. I am staying in France all of 2012 and plan to hop the channel at some stage (NOT during the Olympics!). Would you be willing to chat? Cheers
Jani
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:24:55 AM GMT (130.95.128.51) | On my first visit to Madeira with my wife (and dance partner), and just finished Death and the Tango on a balcony at Reid's, with a view of Funchal and the Atlantic. Always felt a piece of historical fiction was a good travel companion, but never so much as now. My thanks.
Erik Michaelson
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:53:46 PM GMT (166.205.8.79) | great writing on the The Argentinian Virgin
McCoy, Author of the Manipulative Man
Dr. Dorothy McCoy
Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:30:29 PM GMT (99.194.20.85) | Jim, would you please send me a jpeg file of Bernard Shaw dancing? Thank you in advance.
Thanks also for the backing. As for your comment regarding amazon reviews, it seems to me that you are hanging with the wrong crowd. Or, with your talent, publishing history and sharp sense humour, you are simply pulling my leg. What else to expect from a retiree with lots of time for mischief? However, if you are serious, there are ways to improve the sales and I can prove it to you.
Warm regards,
Iva
Iva
Wednesday, June 08, 2011 5:45:52 AM GMT (70.72.94.212) | Hi Kat,
I am Jonathan, Jim's Web Designer/Developer. Thanks for pointing out the warning message on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia article was actually written by me with the assistance of some admins on Wikipedia and a great deal of input from Jim. I have disclosed my connection to Jim and Wikipedia are fine with that. I asked for advice at the time I typed it in and it was further expanded by several Wikipedia Admins/Moderators. In terms of evidence re: The Hitler Diaries (ie Jim's Novel) having priority over the forgeries bearing the same name, Jim has provided me with the dates and page numbers for two news paper articles. He has also provided me with dates and reference numbers relating to his degree, call to The Bar and Inner Temple Certificate.
Jonathan
Monday, May 09, 2011 1:23:28 AM GMT (127.0.0.1) | Kat,
Thanks for your message. The only confirmatory internet source for my biography is on my publisher's website : http://www.quartetbooks.co.uk/bookpages/theargentinianvirgin.html
Re the "other" Hitler Diaries, the link is to a genuine article. By a frankly bizarre coincidence, at the same time that I was writing my novel about the discovery of the diaries, two German forgers were producing a forgery of the diaries themselves. My novel has priority: it was published 9 months before the forgery scandal broke.
THE AUTHOR
Monday, April 18, 2011 11:51:49 AM GMT (195.92.247.215) | Mr. Williams, can you direct me to ANY Internet sources, for biographical information on you, which are not User based, or self authored? I am interested because it seems as though your Wikipedia biography, is at risk of being deleted due to poorly sourced citing. (Or no sources.) Also, the same article does make a clear mention of your book. "The Hitler Diaries", which is further linked to another author, and clearly a fraud. (I a not alleging that your edition, by the same title, is a fraud.) I am simply trying to save your Wikipedia biography.
Thank you,
Kat
Kat
Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:11:16 PM GMT (99.171.100.112) | I met Jim a couple of times. We shared a pint or too, and a good chat and a few laughs. He is learned, frank, amusing, tells a good story and is thoroughly good company. It is our good fortune that his books take after him so if you have stumbled upon this page by accident take my advice and go read his books, or better still go and buy them.
Mike.L.
Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:18:57 PM GMT (62.25.109.196) | Hi Jim
I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Argentinian Virgin". A beautifully written book with well drawn characters and a clever ending. Your craftmanship as a writer shines through your work and this book in particular.
Best wishes
Mike Major
Sunday, January 24, 2010 5:36:44 PM GMT (86.144.69.235) | Hello Jim, Have just finished reading 'Lara's Child'.Amazing...great writing, forensic research.We met you & your wife at a dance in Stratford-on-Avon a few years ago. You were very modest about your achievement, never letting on that 'Scherzo' had been nominated for the Booker. Looking forward to reading more. Best wishes Trish
Trish morris
Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:59:01 PM GMT (86.128.152.142) | Have just finished my first reading of a Jim Williams novel - and I'm hooked. Intrigue, love, passion and a murder mystery all wrapped up in The Argentinian Virgin. Beautifully crafted and narrated, a host of interesting characters and relationships made this a real page turner, especially the quest for the truth so many years after the event. Enthralling.
Neil Hughes
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:02:24 PM GMT (217.34.41.91) | Fascinating Background to The Argentinian Virgin.
Writing WhoDunnits, Film Noir, Love and Dancing and The Problem of Evil. Almost a Book in itself :-D !
Jonathan
Sunday, November 15, 2009 5:11:22 AM GMT (127.0.0.1) | Hi Jim,
I am really looking forward to The Argentinan Virgin being published. Fingers crossed for the Nobel Prize ;-)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к
Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:30:01 AM GMT (127.0.0.1) | Welcome to the Jim Williams - Author - Guest Book!
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