National Press

[Brian G Turner]

Thanks for the link - both the Spar and garage were sold out!

This intrigued me:

But he turned the venture into a triumph by adopting a marketing strategy thought to be unique. Offering himself as a free floor-walker to bookshops near his RAF base at Brize Norton, Wiltshire, he would engage shoppers in conversation about their tastes.

Will have to ask about this later.

 

[The Master™]

Thanks for the link - both the Spar and garage were sold out!

Shame on you, I'd've thought you'd've checked online before wasting the energy walking in the god-awful Scottish weather!!! Always happy to help the less fortunate!!!

 

[Mark Robson]

Aw, bollox! Now you tell us!! Okay, will go into the village for a paper, if they have one.

Sorry for the late call. I was signing today in Abingdon and didn't get home until late.

Thanks for putting the link up Master... and for the text version too. I have been swamped in emails and paperwork all evening, so I'd just popped in to do just that when I find you've all been hard at it doing my promotion for me. The great thing about the online version is that it doesn't have the photograph!

Just got an invite for two days to Brent Cross - the busiest, biggest turnover WH Smith store in the UK. Will be going on 4th and 5th of November. Guess I'm going to be 'charming' my way into customers' wallets again!

 

[The Master™]

If I'm helping your promotion, I WANT PAYING YOU SKINFLINT!!!

 

[Mark Robson]

If I'm helping your promotion, I WANT PAYING YOU SKINFLINT!!!

Sure ... consider the wages I'm currently paying you doubled!

 

[The Master™]

*coughbloodyskinflintcough*

Let me see, double of nothing is... hmmmm, the maths is very complicated...

If you are ever in Leeds, let me know - I'll take a set of books as payment...

 

[Mark Robson]

LOL! Let's see what sort of a tour program Simon & Schuster come up with for me in Feb 06, shall we? Maybe I'll get to meet you yet. I'm gradually meeting up with more and more folk from this site.

 

[Rane Longfox]

Nice to finally see the artical Mark. I'd almost given up hope

 

[Mark Robson]

Nice to finally see the artical Mark. I'd almost given up hope

You and me both! However, as expected, we now have interest from some of the other nationals. The Telegraph have expressed an interest to do an article around the time of the launch - which would be fantastic. After this experience, though, I'm not going to hold my breath over it.

 

[dwndrgn]

Sorry for the late call. I was signing today in Abingdon and didn't get home until late.

Thanks for putting the link up Master... and for the text version too. I have been swamped in emails and paperwork all evening, so I'd just popped in to do just that when I find you've all been hard at it doing my promotion for me. The great thing about the online version is that it doesn't have the photograph!

Just got an invite for two days to Brent Cross - the busiest, biggest turnover WH Smith store in the UK. Will be going on 4th and 5th of November. Guess I'm going to be 'charming' my way into customers' wallets again!

Now you're going to have to cough up that photo!

 

[Mark Robson]

Now you're going to have to cough up that photo!

All I'll say is that it was taken on a very windy day. They cropped it in close, so this won't look exactly the same, but I'll do my best to put something approximating it on:

 

[The Master™]

LOL! Let's see what sort of a tour program Simon & Schuster come up with for me in Feb 06, shall we? Maybe I'll get to meet you yet. I'm gradually meeting up with more and more folk from this site.

Yeah, THE LADIES OF THE BOARD!!! hehehe!!!

 

[dwndrgn]

Oooh...very nice! And you don't look so bad yourself, Mark.

I've no clue why (I really don't have any clue why my brain does anything, recently while out of town I dreamt that someone was teaching me a language to use to control other people but it couldn't be spoken, could only be written ) but I've always imagined you with hair long enough to brush the top of your collar - of course if I'd ever truly thought about it, I would have known that a military man would have much shorter hair. Every day I realize why my husband so often calls me a dingbat...

 

[The Master™]

A written language to make other people do your bidding??? DAMN!!

And a hippy-RAF-type??? Shame on you!!!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

That clean-cut boyish wholesome look is why people don't scream and run when he accosts them in bookstores and strong-arms them over to his table.

If he looked like a hippy, I'm afraid his tactics would terrify women and children.

 

[Mark Robson]

That clean-cut boyish wholesome look is why people don't scream and run when he accosts them in bookstores and strong-arms them over to his table.

If he looked like a hippy, I'm afraid his tactics would terrify women and children.

LOL! Yes, I guess the wholesome look helps ... along with my charm and charisma, of course.

The phone has been red hot all day. I'm now due to go into Northampton tomorrow for interviews with the local papers, a live interview on BBC Northampton radio and possibly Anglia TV net. Thursday is looking like an interview with Anne Diamond on her morning show on Radio Oxford, followed by spells on each of the Oxford TV channels.

I had a feeling this might happen. Publicity breeds publicity.

 

[Balinor]

and as they say...any publicity is good publicity. Like "The Master" said...when's the film...I want to be in it!!!

 

[Rosemary]

That clean-cut boyish wholesome look is why people don't scream and run when he accosts them in bookstores and strong-arms them over to his table.

If he looked like a hippy, I'm afraid his tactics would terrify women and children.

Congratulations on your achievements Mark. Good luck with all of the interviews.

Yes Kelpie has the right idea - although I don't know that a 'hippy' look would frighten all of the women!!

 

[dwndrgn]

LOL! Yes, I guess the wholesome look helps ... along with my charm and charisma, of course.

The phone has been red hot all day. I'm now due to go into Northampton tomorrow for interviews with the local papers, a live interview on BBC Northampton radio and possibly Anglia TV net. Thursday is looking like an interview with Anne Diamond on her morning show on Radio Oxford, followed by spells on each of the Oxford TV channels.

I had a feeling this might happen. Publicity breeds publicity.

Good to hear! Don't let them overwork you though, have fun and enjoy your moment* in the spotlight

*not meaning that it will last only a moment...just a turn of phrase that sounded a bit odd once I read it over.

 

[The Master™]

Yes Kelpie has the right idea - although I don't know that a 'hippy' look would frighten all of the women!!

But those are the wrong kind of women!!!