Free Shipping on my Book

April 20, 2010 Leave a comment

OK, I know you’re probably not interested, but I have to try anyway.  If you were thinking of purchasing a copy of my book then you can use the code FREEMAILUK305 at the checkout at lulu.com to get free shipping (up to the value of £2.99).  Here’s the link, just to make it a bit easier for you:

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-best-of-the-world-of-sherby57-volume-1/6558616

You’ve really not got any excuse not to buy a copy immediately.  Other than not wanting to, of course, but please don’t let that stop you.  Thanks for listening.

P.s.

The offer is valid until the 5th May, so don’t think about it for too long.


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A Week of Sherby57: 11th Apr – 17th Apr 2010

April 19, 2010 Leave a comment

Lovely posts, lovely man.  Enjoy:

Sunday 11th

The Book of The Blog – Have I mentioned that I’ve released a book version of The World of Sherby57 called The Best of The World of Sherby57: Volume 1?  Oh, I’ve mentioned it several times, have I?  Well forgive me, your Lordship.  Anyway, this is another post advertising my wonderful book.

Monday 12th

Sherby57’s Mind Expanders – 1 – There’s a lot of flabby minds these days, so I thought I’d have a crack at getting your thoughts in shape.  This is a very tricky brainteaser, so don’t feel bad if you don’t get it straight away.  The solution will be published this week.

Tuesday 13th

Hunting Turnips – A Poem – It’s a poem about how it feels to hunt turnips for fun.  Admit it, we’ve all done it.

Wednesday 14th

Doctor Sherby57 on TV – A round up of the week’s TV, including: a St Helens-based sci-fi drama, a wig-based game show and a documentary about toes.

Thursday 15th

Leo and Linda’s Lion Luxury – A Story – Yet more bonkers romance.  It really is my forte.  This week sees two mis-matched people find love in the beautiful city of Wolfsteinsten.

Saturday 17th

The Sherby57 Exercise Plan – My new fitness regime has worked wonders for me and it seems only fair that I share my secrets with you.  Get prepared to buy a whole new wardrobe.

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Nothing To Say

April 18, 2010 8 Comments

I don’t really have anything to say.  Is that a sufficient topic to blog about?

It’s probably not, really, but I don’t really have much choice as I don’t really have anything to say (as we’ve already established).  I wonder why that is?  I can usually rustle something up to talk about but I’ve not been feeling that inspired for the last few days.  It’s a bit easier over at The World of Sherby57 because I can just make something completely random up.  Maybe I should take a leaf out of that book.

Oh, it’s OK, I’ve just remembered something interesting that has happened to me.  I recently bumped into one of my old teachers who has gone on to become a cage fighter.  It seems ridiculous at his age, but he’s really gone for it.  He was just a weedy English teacher when I was at school, but he’s bulked up beyond all recognition.  To be honest, you’ve got to suspect that steroids were involved.  Anyway, he told me that he trains by punching copies of ‘Of Mice and Men’ whilst pretending that he’s got the strength of Lenny.  Then, when he gets home, he likes to pet the rabbits to relax.  It doesn’t sound like it would be a very effective training regime, to be honest.  He did say that he’d lost all his fights, so I guess that says it all.

None of that was true.  Could you tell?  I was just trying to make something random up.  Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.  I’m sure you would have been telling all your friends about the cage fighting English teacher.  You can still tell them.  It will be our little secret.

I bloody hope that I get some real inspiration soon.

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More About My Book

April 13, 2010 6 Comments

So, it’s been at least 24 hours since I’ve mentioned it, so it’s high time that I wrote about my book again.

It’s quite a weird thing to publish a book (even a self-published one) and face up to the fact that it’s probable that nobody will ever buy a copy, other than you.  This is not intended to be a guilt trip, so don’t worry, it’s just an observation.  As much as I would have liked for the book to magically (and impossibly) become a best seller, I’m not really that bothered.  No, really.  Although in some ways it was an exercise in vanity publishing (and there’s nothing wrong with that), the main reason that I did it was to prove that I could.

I’ve been writing my blogs for a while now and have always wanted to complete a longer project, but they always seemed too daunting.  How do you get the belief that you can write something of any length without actually ever doing it?  Sure, this project was a bit of a cheat because it’s based on posts that already existed, but it’s still 25,000 words that I had to knock into some sort of shape.  To be honest, it was surprising just how much work was actually needed.  I had to amend many of the posts heavily; mainly because of how sloppy I had been when I’d originally written them.  The Fireheart story in particular was significantly extended and I even had to dream up a concluding chapter.  This was more difficult that you might imagine as I had been warned that I would be killed if I used the Bobby Ewing “it was all a dream” ending.  Luckily I came up with a fittingly stupid conclusion.

Anyway, the point that I’m trying to make is that it was an excellent learning experience and that, as a bonus, I got a nice looking book out of it.  What more could you ask for?

For those of you who are interested, you can take a look at the book here.  There’s a pretty nifty ‘preview’ function that allows you to read the first 12 pages of the book, so you can at least have a browse.

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A Week of Sherby57: 4th Apr – 10th Apr

April 12, 2010 Leave a comment

It’s another week’s posts from the blog that has a book.  Did I mention that there was a book of The World of Sherby57?  Oh, I did.  Never mind, I just thought I’d check.

Sunday 4th

Post From The Past – April 2009 – It’s the final part of the story of why I went missing for three months.  It wouldn’t take a genius to work out that I was totally bored of doing it by this stage.

Monday 5th

Angry Table: The Musical – A Poem – A poem about the perils of writing a musical about an angry table.  No, I don’t know where it came from either.

Tuesday 6th

Easter Gravy – Yet another fabulous episode of The Gravy Boat Podcast.  This one features a ‘bible story’.  There is a chance that I made it up.

Wednesday 7th

Sherby57 on TV on Ice – A quick look at the week’s TV, featuring the hit drama, Tweet Town Blue.  If you like textspeak then this is for you.

Thursday 8th

The Man Done Some Stuff 3: Man in New York – The return of the world’s most romantically comedic series of romcoms.  This time the man is a different man, but the original man is still in it.  I know that sounds a bit confusing but it will all make sense if you just read it.  It’s also set in New York so it’s very cosmopolitan.

Friday 9th

Visit Wolfsteinsten – If you’re thinking about getting away for the weekend then I suggest you give this post a read.  Wolfsteinsten is a little known destination, but it’s well worth a visit.

Saturday 10th

Martha’s Bangers – A Story – The week ends with a beautiful romance story of the highest order.  And it’s set in a truck stop.  What more could you ask for?  Look out for a special guest appearance by Geoffrey Dunstable.  Yes, THAT Geoffrey Dunstable.

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Buy My Book!

April 10, 2010 1 Comment

Yesterday was a very exciting day for me, as I received the first copies of my book – The Best of The World of Sherby57: Volume 1.  Yes, it’s a real life book and I wrote it.  It’s a very strange feeling.

Now, admittedly it isn’t a real book because it’s entirely self-published and the only copies that I’m likely to sell are to myself.  But don’t try and rain on my parade, I’m still excited.  The book is, unsurprisingly, a collection of posts from my other blog, The World of Sherby57, and is made up from stuff from its first two years.  Rest assured that I haven’t just copied and pasted from the blog and then published.  There were a frightening number of mistakes that had to be corrected and many of the posts are heavily revised and expanded.  There’s even an expanded version of Fireheart! – the thrilling\weird adventures of the maverick Johnny Fireheart – and the story finally has the conclusion that’s been missing since Chapter 5 was published in November 2007.  The book is 113 pages of sheer Sherby57 goodness.

The book was published through lulu.com, a service that allows you to publish a book for free.  They even give you an ISBN number so you can feel even more like a real author.  Lulu are based in the US but I received my copies just 7 days after ordering them which is pretty impressive.  It’s amazing how a Word document that I knocked together can end up looking so good when it’s turned into a book.  I highly recommend a bit of vanity publishing to any fellow bloggers out there.

Anyway, this is only the first post about The Best of The World of Sherby57: Volume 1, I’m sure that I’m going to bore you to tears with it over the coming weeks.  In the unlikely event that you’d like to buy a copy then you can do so by clicking here.  It costs a very reasonable £8.27.  I don’t know why it’s such a random price, but it is.

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A Week of Sherby57: 28th Mar – 3rd Apr 2010

April 6, 2010 Leave a comment

It’s been another stunning week of posts on Sherby57.  But, I’m really biased because I wrote them.  Why not read them for yourself, just to prove that you agree with me.

Sunday 28th

Let’s Hear it for the Brain Mite – Not enough people know how their own soggy brains work.  Have you even heard of brain mites before?  I thought not.  Perhaps you should have a read of this post and let me educate you.  To be fair, a lot of the information was arrived at by educated guesses, so you might want to double check before you attempt any surgery.

Monday 29th

Unlucky Gravy – It’s an advert for the thirteenth episode of The Gravy Boat podcast.  If you like truck stop conventions\festivals then it’s your duty to listen.

Tuesday 30th

This is Between You and Me – Shhhh.  Don’t say anything.  This post is just for me and you.  I know you understand.  Let’s keep it secret, yeah?

Thursday 1st

Des’s Surprise – A Story – Gosh.  It’s yet another ground-breaking romcom.  How do I keep on producing romantic fiction of such high quality?  I must be jam-packed full of romance.  To the brim.

Friday 2nd

New Sherby57 Products – Not only is Sherby57 a blog, it’s also a company that produces innovative consumer products.  Take a look at these four exciting products and then rush out to buy them.  They’re literally amazing.

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Boring Blog Stats – March 2010

April 2, 2010 1 Comment

Last month saw both my blogs take a big tumble in the number of hits they received.  Would the fresh beginnings of Spring see them fully recover?  Well, no.  But they did do better than last month so I can’t really complain.

In February,  the figures were:

The World of Sherby57 – Total hits = 770, average hits per day = 27.5

Pour Some Gravy On Me – Total hits = 818, average hits per day = 29.2

In March, they were:

Sherby57 – Total hits = 989, average hits per day = 31.9

PSGOM – Total hits = 1126, average hits per day = 36.3

It’s nice to be back around the 1000 hits mark, even though it is a completely arbitrary, meaningless number.  I’m just crazy like that.

Top Posts for the Month

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I’m not going to bother listing the top Sherby57 posts because they’re the same ones that they always are (check out an old edition of BBS for details).  Is there any way that I can break this tedious monopoly?  I don’t honestly know.  If anyone has any ideas then let me know.

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Home Page – 455

Sex Sells: The Mr Banana Penis Story – 58

Primark’s The Spot – 47

The Power of the Shower – 37

It’s nice to see that my waffle category is proving so popular, as I can quite easily waffle about stuff that has happened to me all day long.  Who would have thought that going to Primark and having a shower would prove so popular?

Top Search Terms of All Time

In a change of pace, I thought I’d take a look at the most popular search engine terms that managed to find my blogs.

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human penis – 1,049 searches

penis – 472 searches

geordie jokes – 394 searches

bodyguard – 355 searches

geordie jeans – 209 searches

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stacey solomon upskirt – 72 searches

jonas altberg sex tape – 71 searches

sex penis – 59 searches

jonas altberg penis – 57 searches

banana penis – 39 searches

Gosh, the internet really is a squalid place, isn’t it?  How depressing that I’ve gotten so many hits from penis related searches.  Thank god for the Geordies and bodyguards for giving the results an air of respectability.  I guess the moral of the story is that if you want to just say that your blog gets a lot of hits then just fill it with pervy phrases.  The irony is that by listing all the terms then I’m just making it more likely that I’m going to get more bogus, pervy hits.  I’ll let you know how this post does next month.

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A Week of Sherby57: 21st Mar – 27th Mar 2010

March 29, 2010 Leave a comment

Do I really need to write an introduction to this, this week?  No.  I didn’t think so.

Damn…does this constitute an introduction?

Sunday 21st

Attention Earthlings! – Sherby57 was hijacked last Sunday as some sort of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen type alien shared his message with the world.  I don’t know how long it’s going to take for him to get here, but keep on the look out for a UFO with an enormous paint roller attached.

Monday 22nd

The Gravy Dozen – It’s a lovely advert for episode 12 of The Gravy Boat.  If you’ve not listened yet then you’ve missed a tale about an unusual watch and the first mention of Truckstopcon ’10.

Wednesday 24th

Booky – Our good friends at the Torben Piechnik Institute have made a comeback as they discover an entirely new type of book.  They decided to call it ‘Booky’… I don’t know why.

Thursday 25th

Tea for Two – A Story – Those of you paying attention will notice that I write at least one bizarre romcom story every week.  This week was a belter, so much so that I already plugged it here.  Does it sounds conceited for me to call it a ‘belter’?  Perhaps, but it was pretty good.  It’s the story of a man who runs a literary bakery who meets a woman who runs a herbal tea shop.  What sort of ridiculous misunderstanding will blight their fledgling romance?  Just how sappy will its conclusion be?  You’re just going to have to have a read to find out.

Friday 26th

Visit The Sherby57 Estate – Not many people know that the Sherby57 estate is one of the top tourist attractions in the country.  Did anybody spot the deliberate mistake in that last sentence?  Either way, have a read of this and I’m sure you’ll be jumping in your car to visit.

Saturday 27th

Wigan Casino – A Poem – It’s a short poem about a man who wants to be a gangster despite some obvious setbacks.  I wish I could say that I planned to call it Wigan Casino from the outset, but the connection only came to me once I had finished.  I just got lucky.

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Dear Hollywood

March 25, 2010 1 Comment

Well, my planned PSGOM post of the day was going to be to finally write January’s Reading Habits entry.  As you’re now reading this instead, that clearly didn’t happen.  My afternoon has been occupied by writing one of my alternative romcom classics over on Sherby57.  Today’s is called Tea for Two.  I urge you to click here to read it, as it did take quite a bit of effort (believe it or not).

What is it that makes me one of the leading romcom creators of the 21st-century?  It’s a question that’s been asked by many a literary critic and philosopher.  There certainly are no easy answers to such a complex question, but it probably helps that I’m extremely romantic.  Sure, I may not be traditionally romantic.  You’re more likely to find a bakery\library in my stories than you would a bunch of roses.  But, hey, this is the modern world and I’m a modern kind of guy.  I like to challenge your expectations, in a way.  Plus I really like pasties (this won’t make sense unless you read the story).

Anyway, I’d just like to say that any Hollywood producers out there shouldn’t feel shy about getting in touch with me.  I’m quite prepared to negotiate with you for the film rights to my stories, as long as you’re prepared to respect the integrity of the work.  Or pay me bucketloads of cash.  Artistic integrity can blow me if it means I get my villa in the south of France.

Only joking.  My work is surprisingly personal and you Hollywood types had better realise that tales as exquisite as mine need to be treated with the reverence that they deserve.

P.s.

I only stopped by to say hello and to urge you all to read the story that I’d slaved over.  I don’t know where all the Hollywood stuff came from.  I should probably go and have a little lie down.

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