Nothing handles like a rental car - a book of confessions

[steve2]

Got mine tonight and enjoyed reading the wrapping, touring cars racing with Rouse, Sheene etc, cheers Rich

[cjs racing.]

I'm sitting by the door every day, waiting for the postie. Why can't mine be here already.

Can't you tell I enjoyed the 1st book, and looking forward to this one.

[GuitarTech]

A nice surprise in the post yesterday. my copy has arrived, and undamaged too, despite the somewhat optimistic packing
You certainly have more faith in the british and german post than I have
Years ago, for about three years I scanned incoming parcels at DPD as a part time job till my business got on it's feet, and all I can say is, I'm thankfull that you didn't send it with them
I've read the first chapter already, great stuff...thankyou

[jeremy996]

It arrived yesterday and I read 55 pages this morning by accident. (I really should have been going to work).

I have cooked various cars brakes going down the Stelvio Pass - taking my wife's, (or a hire Fiat 500 1.2) up and down it seems like inspired madness.

Hire cars always have issues with being suitable for the task. My wife and I did a chunk of the Great Ocean Road, (Australia, Melbourne), in a Holden Barina 1.0 in yellow. (Also known as the Vauxhall Corsa/ Opel Corsa), To say it struggled with two adults and long haul luggage is something of an understatement.

In Portugal, my sister was very irritated to discover that my wife and I had driven the same tracks in a base Renault Clio that her specially bought and paid for 4x4 tour in Land Cruisers covered.

[hidetheelephants]

The Crack Fox said:

hidetheelephants said:

What flavour of scabby old Bentley? I bet I could make one less broken, if not definitively fixed.

Mulsanne, or an Eight. Something large and comfy and quick and terribly unreliable.

They all do that sir; on the grounds that baggy turbo Rs are not much more to buy I'd vote for forced induction on the grounds you'd get to where you're going to break down irrevocably much, much more quickly. They rust for sport too, which just makes it much more exciting.

[CS Garth]

A late acknowledgement of receipt last week and much enjoyment of dipping in an out. I literally haven't take a st without it.

[RossP]

Finished reading it last night. Really enjoyed it. Now passing to the boy to read.

[seiben]

Brought it on holiday with me and finished it almost in one sitting. Rather aptly I'm currently haring around Morocco in a rental Dacia Duster with 130k km on the clock and a slow puncture

Pics of Sahara sandstorm when I get some reasonable internet! My OH has now commandeered the book and is chuckling away to herself by the pool

[Super Slo Mo]

I started making inroads into my copy yesterday. Enjoying it so far.
Keep up the good work.

[ziontrain]

Got my copy of both books off that amazon t'other week. thoroughly enjoyed 'Confessions' and now working my way through 'Rental Car'

[Lordbenny]

Ran Cannonball Run Europe for 8 years....always hired cars for myself and the staff. Passats, Audi A4, Golfs, Vauxhall something or other!

Did 3000 miles in a week at ridiculous speeds AND at least 20 laps of an F1 track (Monza, Estoril, Imola, Red Bull ring etc) the cars all survived albeit with bald tyres, oil lights on and no brake pads!

[iSore]

Amazon delivered mine yesterday.

[Lazadude]

The Crack Fox said:

Now the 160,545th best selling book on Amazon.

I'm off to buy a Veyron, or summat.

I enjoyed reading both, but now I'm curious how the financials are for writing/publishing and how much of a bite you actually get.

By all means tell me to go away or be as vague as you feel comfortable; but with printing, binding, shipping etc cost mixed with how long it takes to write and edit, the hourly/day rate must be minuscule.

[Truckosaurus]

Lazadude said:

... I'm curious how the financials are for writing/publishing and how much of a bite you actually get....

You can go onto the self-publishing part of the Amazon website and see the breakdown of the prices/costs for the various sizes of books.

[Lazadude]

Truckosaurus said:

You can go onto the self-publishing part of the Amazon website and see the breakdown of the prices/costs for the various sizes of books.

Didn't know that, will take a gander, thanks.

[wst]

The Crack Fox said:

I don't print, pack, ship or handle the payments or anything. It's all done by Amazon. The initial backers copies were signed and sent by me but that's all. I get an email each day to say how many copies sold the previous day and a royalty payment each month. Writing it took some time but I rather enjoy writing.

Having worked the floor at Amazon, you get to see some of the low-production books like this, there's a section of the warehouse which is always getting freshly-printed books on its shelves. You get such delights as "Natural Harvest - 50 recipes for semen" and "Mein Kampf" up that end. It's a real rollercoaster when the scanner says to go to those aisles.

[iSore]

The Crack Fox said:

Have you read it? I hope you enjoyed it. And thank you!

Err.................it's not grabbing me like the first one, but I'm only 1/3 of the way through. I'll get back to you!

[Silverbullet767]

Finished the book on holiday, great collection of short stories. I'll grab your first book for the next holiday.

[laters]

I've finally finished reading my Kickstarter pdf of "Nothing handles like a rental car" on my kindle.

Looking forward to your next book.

[Truckosaurus]

The problem I am having making progress through the book is that after every story I think "that sounds like fun" and fire up the laptop to look at the route on Google Maps or onto Autotrader/eBay to look at worthless cars that I have nowhere to store or skills to maintain, which then uses up the rest of the evening until bedtime.