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Saint Valentine's Day (Price) Massacre

12/2/2012

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_I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I think it’s exploitative and used far too frequently by manipulative people to crowbar money out of their spouse/partner/current shag buddy. And guilt-tripping someone into buying a bouquet of flowers (to be delivered to work so the recipient can pretend to be surprised and show off about it, taking particular care to simper with fake compassion in the general direction of whichever colleague got dumped last week) or a concert ticket (which has potentially months’ worth of bragging rights attached) or whatever else it might be, has bugger all to do with love.
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_So, as Valentine’s Day approaches, I thought I’d use it as a tenuous link to support a wee Heartbreaker promotion. As it goes in the book:

‘What do you have in mind?’ Johnny knew from experience that there would be dates already set, deals already made.

‘First off, there’s a big launch party at Crawdaddy. That’s planned for February the fourteenth. Valentine’s day, Heartbreaker, Labour of Love. You see the connection.’

‘It’s not exactly subtle.’

And he’s right, it isn’t. But that won’t stop me.


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_As of today, and for the next week, the e-book on Amazon in the UK and the US is reduced from £1.98/$2.99 to 77p/99c, and the print book on Lulu has a whopping 40% discount applied to it, reducing it from £10.99 to £6.59. (There’s nothing I can do about the cost of postage, but at least this way it can be delivered for under a tenner.)

So, there you go. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I encourage you to buy something. Buy a book. Buy it for someone else, if you wish, or buy it for yourself. Or don’t buy it. Read the reviews, the excerpts on this site and the free download, see if you like it, then decide. Do what makes you feel best.

And rest assured that the only emotional blackmail, manipulation and guilt-tripping involved happens between the pages, to people who are all made up anyway.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Absolutely*Kate link
11/2/2012 06:59:14 pm

Au contraire my classy author friend ~

Matt, "The Prof" entered our home on Friday night from the Stop & Shop grocery foray with two bundles in front of his 'almost' held in check beam of a smile. One was a dozen creamy white tulips. The other a dozen red, red roses. I looked at practicality + boyhood and burst out laughing. Asked him if he brought the tulips because we like 'em 'round our home in varied vases so we feel Spring comin' on in at us ... and that he could cover Valentine's Day in one fell swoop.

He did. And we laughed. No guilts, all glory ... practically guffaws and simple good giving.

Like your book, Like all your books.
Which incidentally should be in a packaged set, someway, somehow. Tie a big red bow around the one fell swoop of someone buying all the merry Morrigans currently out there ... and THAT is Valentine's Day merchandising/marketing ... sans massacre.

What's that? Did I get Matt anything for Valentine's Day? S'all about showing the Love how you feel it. I designed and wrote him a quite splendid book-card ... I got him a circle rug of the compass rose to let him know I'm there in all good points of our Life's Journey . . . and . . if he's real lucky, I may even read him some passages of your books.

I'll do it with feeling.
And I'll eat the chocolates I was going to send to you, fearful you'd find them too commercial. ;-)

Happy soaring successes author Jools,
Glad for the talent and joie de vivre that be YOU.

~ Absolutely*Kate

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Julie Morrigan
11/2/2012 07:07:49 pm

As always, Lady Kate, you do it with style, sass and moxie. A gal could learn a lot from a dame like you. Have a great weekend, you kids. (Still chuckling at the tale of the flowers - lovely stuff! :D)

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AJ Hayes
11/2/2012 11:26:56 pm

I'll let Dottie The P speak for me I agree:
One Perfect Rose
A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet --
One perfect rose.

I knew the language of the floweret:
`My fragile leaves,' it said, `his heart enclose'.
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.

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Julie Morrigan
12/2/2012 08:19:41 pm

That's a great choice, AJ, love it. :)

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