My life

Link with the past! Have you ever had that urge to find an old friend or a lost acquaintance? Well I happened to let my mind wander on Google the other day and typed in a name that used to play a big part in my life. Try it, its: Janval Phagan. http://www.geocities.com/janvalphagan/ She was the head of my coven for several years, until I drifted away from organised magick. A tough women for a tough job. Few people in the occult world stick their heads above the parapet and are prepared to take... Sign in to see full entry.

Animals and Bio-Warfare! With a case of “Blue-Tongue” breaking out on a Suffolk farm in the UK, the farming industry faces yet another crushing blow. With foot and mouth and BSE all biting a chunk out of the industry, you might feel sadness for the poor farmer. But hold on! These are the same farmers who do not hesitate to sell out to the supermarkets. Clearly the biggest villains in the case, the supermarkets have all but destroyed the farming world in the country. Yet helped along by the... Sign in to see full entry.

Associated Content! Anyone who trawls the net in search of work for writers must have come across Associated Content. This is a bit like bloggit, in that you put your stuff up and hope to get people to read it but the twist is, there they pay. So they have a rolling request spot where the market place come to you. They send you, every day, a couple of requests for articles which editors or web owners have requested. They put their point of view and hope that in all the thousands of words on... Sign in to see full entry.

Sorry for Delay Sorry I haven’t made any entries just of late. Ebay has taken up so much of my time that I just feel empty and not capable of drumming up anything worth saying. Lots of new ideas, but my attempts to make money from web design have come to nothing. Lack of capital, and you can’t do it on a shoe string. Steve. Sign in to see full entry.

Hauntings and the selling of Books One thing which always sells on Ebay is a book about the supernatural. Haunted East Anglia is a book we’ve sold on several occasions. People love books about a haunted area. Doesn’t mean to say they will ever visit that area, but nice all the same. For those of you in the US, East Anglia is a bit of England that sticks out East. Its very old and very weird. The most haunted house in England (and possibly the world) was Borely recterary.This was priest’s house,... Sign in to see full entry.

Ebay! Tora..Tora..Tora!!! I’m pleased to say that the money is trickling in through my renewed efforts on Ebay. If I could make this much every day, I could quit my day job and just find a part time supplement for the rent. Oh what a happy thought? So what books sell on Ebay? Anything with the word: “Pony” in the title. Anything by Enid Blyton, especially secret 7. Any French philosophers, especially Satra. In other words, there are no rules. People will pass up wonderful 19 th century books for... Sign in to see full entry.

Life goes On Ebay is the only thing paying me any money at the moment. I’ve started up my book selling scheme and its going well. To my surprise the charity shop we used to use has agreed to renew the link. I’ve gone back to collecting car loads of books for £10 and I’m now in the process of typing like hell to get them online. Of course I’ve still about 1,000 books that have never been put on Ebay. They have been in the house over 5 years and have survived the great cull that happened over a... Sign in to see full entry.

Books Stick to what you know best. The only thing we ever made any real money( and I’m taking salary here) on was the selling of second hand books on Ebay. We started on ABEbooks and Alibris but they just died in the water. In the case of Abe it was down to their listing policy. We used to make £100 a week from them, but they were taken over by some clever people who were going to revolutionise the system. And they certainly did. The sales dropped off to nothing, and we jumped ship. Ebay will... Sign in to see full entry.

Advertising Not much happening today. But I thought I would keep you informed on my projects. My website Tinwellbooks.co.uk is undergoing more changes. I wanted to just use it as an experimental site to find out what I could do. Once I did that I was going to go on and make another site cloned on these results. Well none of that has happened, and I’ve been reduced to setting up the main site as the heart of the project. This is where I want to post the jobs in details. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Writing Jobs! Most of the times I post these writing jobs, I rarely follow up to see what the hell they are selling. On this occasion I did, and boy did I get an eye opener: http://www.galaxyweblinks.com/adultanimation/ This is one of the most bizarre animations I have come across for some time. They want someone to write some copy to try and explain just what the hell this little fellows are doing. I can only assume it is for an adult education project. Either that or for someone with a truly... Sign in to see full entry.