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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#121  Postby Agrippina » Jun 01, 2016 10:50 am

I just wanted to repeat what I said on Facebook. We've had the first bit of income from the sale of books, for which I'm very grateful. Thank you everyone who's bought any of them, I really, really, want to say "thank you so much". Please if you feel inclined to, make a comment on any of the pages, Lulu or Amazon.

Here's the Facebook page if Ratskeppers who are on Facebook would like to "like" it, that would help too. Thank you. :thumbup:
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#122  Postby Sendraks » Jun 01, 2016 11:03 am

Agrippina wrote:Here's the Facebook page if Ratskeppers who are on Facebook would like to "like" it, that would help too. Thank you. :thumbup:


Done.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#123  Postby Agrippina » Jun 01, 2016 11:39 am

Thank you Sendraks. Much appreciated. :thumbup:
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#124  Postby Agrippina » Jun 01, 2016 2:15 pm

OMG, I also now have an Amazon author page.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#125  Postby DougC » Aug 02, 2016 6:13 pm

If you start solving crime do we get to call you Jessica Fletcher?
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#126  Postby Agrippina » Aug 03, 2016 8:29 am

:grin: I actually tried to write a thriller once, couldn't come to a conclusion though. Maybe I should try that again.

Just BTW I got a notification that my books are about to be distributed to Barnes & Noble's online store as well. I think they're a little expensive, so I'm getting my publishing assistant to reduce my portion of the income from the books. Not that I get much for them, only a few pounds/dollars per book. People who aren't supported by big publishing house and book tours, and signings, don't get paid very much for their work.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#127  Postby DougC » Aug 03, 2016 6:36 pm

Agrippina wrote::grin: I actually tried to write a thriller once, couldn't come to a conclusion though. Maybe I should try that again.

Just BTW I got a notification that my books are about to be distributed to Barnes & Noble's online store as well. I think they're a little expensive, so I'm getting my publishing assistant to reduce my portion of the income from the books. Not that I get much for them, only a few pounds/dollars per book. People who aren't supported by big publishing house and book tours, and signings, don't get paid very much for their work.

Biblical thriller set at the crucifixion. A young Rabbi investigates the goings on under the eyes of the Roman's, the Temple authorities and the crazy fools following the latest 'Messiah' to rear his head.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#128  Postby Agrippina » Aug 04, 2016 1:44 pm

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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#129  Postby aban57 » Aug 04, 2016 3:52 pm

And of course, you need to add some conspiracy. Like the Illuminatis planning on undermining christianity to spread islam to start WW3 and make more money.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#130  Postby DougC » Aug 04, 2016 4:07 pm

I'll be Dan, you be Brown.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#131  Postby Agrippina » Aug 05, 2016 8:11 am

So have you guys started writing yet?
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#132  Postby aban57 » Aug 05, 2016 8:42 am

I started, 2 years ago :) But I'm not working very hard on it. Just write down a sentence or 2 when they come to mind. I'm not writing a story, so it's a different process. And I'll have to work on my memoire in the next months, so...
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#133  Postby Agrippina » Aug 05, 2016 9:59 am

I've come to a decision about my own writing. I've been blogging my analyses of the chapters of Genesis, taken from the manuscript I wrote on the whole book. I've done Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, completed, so there's a lot of material. I want to start working on Deuteronomy now.

Rather than sell them as individual expensive hard copies, I'm decided to release each of them as a pdf when I've blogged the whole book. This means I'll blog more than one chapter a week, and when each book is done, make a pdf available for download, without charge. I really want to get my analysis out there more than make any money off it. Of course a hard copy has to be charged for, but a pdf, that I'll give away. Not that I make any money from the books anyway.

Then in the meantime, I'm working on a fantasy novel. More on that later.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#134  Postby aban57 » Aug 05, 2016 10:05 am

Agrippina wrote:I've come to a decision about my own writing. I've been blogging my analyses of the chapters of Genesis, taken from the manuscript I wrote on the whole book. I've done Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, completed, so there's a lot of material. I want to start working on Deuteronomy now.

Rather than sell them as individual expensive hard copies, I'm decided to release each of them as a pdf when I've blogged the whole book. This means I'll blog more than one chapter a week, and when each book is done, make a pdf available for download, without charge. I really want to get my analysis out there more than make any money off it. Of course a hard copy has to be charged for, but a pdf, that I'll give away. Not that I make any money from the books anyway.

Then in the meantime, I'm working on a fantasy novel. More on that later.


Fantasy ? Like a 600 y/o man building a boat to save a couple of all animals on the planet ? Or something with dragons and naked girls ?
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#135  Postby Agrippina » Aug 05, 2016 11:31 am

Something with naked boys too.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#136  Postby Alan B » Aug 05, 2016 2:28 pm

Ah! A priestly novel.
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#137  Postby Agrippina » Aug 05, 2016 2:56 pm

:rofl:
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Re: 'Rationalising the Bible'

#138  Postby Agrippina » Aug 19, 2016 8:54 am

I was quite excited to find that my books are on Goodreads. So I merged my two profiles. Also I'm giving away a pdf of the first book if anyone wants to download it, the link is in my signature. The others two $1 each just so it looks like I'm selling them but if any members want the others, just pm me and I'll upload them to we transfer, as freebies. The other books I'm working on, book by book, I'm not going to charge anyone for those, they'll just be freebies. I really don't want to make money off the books, just get some new ideas about the Bible out there. I'm a little tired of hearing, and seeing, "it's a load of rubbish".
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