to ask you to read this book

[lu9months]

Pear Shaped by Adam Blain. my 44 year old husband has written a book about his aggressive brain tumour. its frankly hilarious - i know, it shouldnt be. it is very dark humour. you can download it from amazon and it would be wonderful if his writing could reach as many people as possible

thanks hotfuzzra!

I read the look inside bit on amazon, and when I get back from the school run I am going to download the kindle thingy to my laptop and then buy it.

thank you sliceofsoup, if you could please tell your friends and family about it!

I bought this today and I have read it this afternoon. Made me laugh out loud and cry. I wish your husband and your family the very best. x

thank you all. really hope we can get the book to take off in a big way. if anyone has some advice about publicity, it would be much appreciated

downloaded! soon off to bed to read it!

best wishes to your family

Sending my best wishes to you all. I have cried and laughed and spent my morning off unable to put it down. We went through something similar some years ago so made it all the more funny and sad. I will be recommending to my nearest and dearest.

Lu, he needs to tweet people with a big following and ask them to retweet or get them to read it.

thanks countess, any suggestions of who to tweet?

Bought tonight after reading this thread - and have read it in one sitting... Excellent account of life with (and without) a tumour. Having lost two good friends to similar in the last year, I could identify with this so much..!
Every good wish to you and your family - will recommend to as many people as I can and/or for you

Just finished it, with a little sob. We have a friend going through similar, and it's told me all I wanted to know without having to ask him questions that might be too personal/awkward/nosey. Thank you.

thanks bikket, much appreciated, its great to hear you are spreading the word about the book, it means so much to adam to hear people are enjoying it

I bought it too. Sending lots of love xx

great suzie. if you like it, please review it and tweet or facebook about it!

Hi OP. I finished it last night - it was just as brilliant as people on here said it was.
Off to review it now

I've reviewed on Goodreads and Amazon. Mumsnet Reviews didn't work when I tried to add it on here, will try again later.

This is a good article about someone who made his book a bestseller using social media.

thanks countess, thats a really helpful article. we are twitter novices, so just working out how best to promote the book via social media. all this advice is so useful

I wondered if Danny baker might be a good person to tweet?

Downloaded. Will start it tomorrow.

Thankyou Mrs Cornish. If any of u are on Twitter, and like the book, please tweet about it !

You can hire someone to format for createspace for only $5 on fiver. There's tons of other freelancers on there too for graphics etc

I will format book for createspace or Kindle in 24 hours for $5

Just bought this. Will finish current book quickly and get reading asap. Best of luck to all concerned.

I loved this book! It made me laugh out loud. Your DH writes brilliantly.

Potential people to ask to read or retweet

Martin Kemp 147k followers
Mark Ruffalo 1.3m followers
Russell Watson 53.7k followers
Ellen Degeneres 42.4m followers
Richard Madeley 202.5k followers
Oprah Winfrey 27m followers
Suzanne Shaw
Dawn French
Geoffrey Munn
Tom Daley
Johnny Willkinson
Alastair Stewart
Earl Spencer
Hayley Mills
Sandy Lyle
Fiona Fullerton
Helen Mirren
Stephen Hendry
Christopher Bailey
Chris de Burgh
Michael Crawford
Phil Tufnell
Darren Gough
Charlatans
Ciara Johnson
Jamie Pugh
Hal Cruttenden
Mel Giedroyc
Lorraine Kelly
Eric Knowles
Will Axon
Sarah Beeny
John Newman
Sheila Hancock
Gillian Anderson

and many more have either been patrons or supported brain tumour charities.

I just bought it for my Kindle. It was $4.50. It only has 1 review on the US site, I will review it on there and Goodreads when I've finished it.