It’s FREE. Like in you can download it and read it without paying anything! Sounds like a sweet deal to me…

Find your Amazon and print link here: http://thewakeupcallbook.com  The most common ones are US (+rest of the world) and UK

About The Wake-Up Call:

On the surface he has it all…

…the women, the career, and the Central Park view penthouse, but behind his well-groomed and chiseled facade he has nothing.

At least this is what he’s about to realize.

Find out how Jack gets his life-changing wake-up call in this fast-paced, heartfelt and funny novel about soul-searching, friendship, and love.

What people say about The Wake-Up Call:
“A riveting page-turner.”
“Brilliant fun for small money.”
“If you don’t smile to this book, you probably never smile anyway.”
“Like a male Bridget Jones in the voice of Marian Keyes.”
“Good style, great flow! Can’t remember that a book entertained me this much.”
“Gritty, realistic and a damn good read!”
“Brilliant and funny!”
“The Wake-Up Call really has it all – you laugh, you’re moved and most of all you’re entertained.”
“A contemporary Don Draper!”

Ps. Before July 1st you will be able to buy my second novel Hollywood PA. More info about that coming soon! Ds.

A big box of “Wake-Up Calls” arrived from the U.S. yesterday. Fancy a copy? Comment or check out http://thewakeupcallbook.com It’s also available as an e-book for 99 cents at Amazon (normally $2.99).

If you read it and like it, please tell your friends. I’ll be eternally grateful.

Cheers / Jonas

Not it’s not the story of how I became a famous novelist (although I hope to tell it later), but a novel I bought today. It’s written by Steve Hely who’s been writing jokes for Letterman, 30 Rock, American Dad, and currently writes for The Office. It seems very entertaining and I will give a short review later. If you’re interested you can buy it here

Hope you all had a good St Pat’s day. We did.

I read loads and loads of King books when I was a young kid and I can actually credit him for helping me develop my interest in writing (how I ended up writing about human relationships and not thrillers/horror/paranormal is another story), so it was nice to reconnect with him for his latest work (since he’s so prolific, by the time you read this, it might not be his latest work).

The novel with the cryptic title 11/22/63 is about a man that gets the possibility to travel back in time and stop the assassination of JFK. I’m not going to say more than that, because I’m only 30% into the book at the moment, but so far it’s been a thrilling ride. King really has a masterful storyteller’s voice and really makes you want to dip back into his world, again and again and again.

Recommended!

Buy it on Amazon

I’m currently reading The Idea Writers - Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era by Teressa Iezzi and it’s quite refreshing and inspiring for people who are interested (or are already working) in advertising.

Check out the official site here and buy it on Amazon.com here

I started my reading career reading everything Stephen King (and he sure is a fantastic writer, across genres) so I can understand the human interest in dark, paranormal thrillers, but I really love reading about people, how they interact, think, love and hurt, without any vampire aliens running around killing everybody. And if the writer makes me laugh as well – then I’m all for it. This is kind of what I’m aiming for, comedy with serious undertones or literary fiction with a good dose of humor in it.

But I’ve been battling this writer’s doubt lately that either my work isn’t good enough or people are just not interested in reading about the same stuff that I like to read about. Part of me (the commercial, sell-out, I want SUCCESS part) wants to chuck all the work I’ve been doing and start writing mystery books or thrillers with a vampire twist and the other part of me wants to say “I write what I like! And if you don’t like it  - well go F#€ yourself!”  In the end neither part seems to win, because after a day or three I have a good writing day where I feel like the story I’m writing is great and are destined for wonderful things (well at least I like it!). I would call this feeling the writer’s thrill.

The writer’s thrill is what I think all writers live for – that feeling when nothing on the page can stop you, no obstacle in the story is unsurmountable and you’re riding the divine wings of inspiration. That feeling is just the best (well, at least top 2) feeling in the world and I wish I could bottle it up and consume it at will. Sadly, or maybe justly, writing isn’t that easy. You need to stick with it through the rough days, when every word is like squeezing a drop of blood out of your temples and when almost every paragraph you write ends with you feeling “well, that’s probably shit” and you seem to be hitting the delete button more than any other key, because on the other side of the coin you get the glorious waves of the great days, when your subconscious is on tap and you only need to direct it towards the page.

When I started writing this post I was, as you can understand, in the gloomiest of writer moods. I had the writer’s doubt big time! I just couldn’t feel connected enough to the story I’m writing and if I wasn’t such a compulsive finish-what-I-started person, I could’ve possibly given it up by now. But a few days later the mood around the story shifted and I felt great again. I didn’t do anything differently I just went to work on the story every day, no matter how discouraging it could be. That’s the secret to being a writer I’ve realized (at least a half-competent one) – consistency.

So to summarize this little post about writer’s block, writer’s thrill and writer’s doubt, I just want to say that writing is damn difficult sometimes and pretty easy other times and just work in between. But it’s work we enjoy, right?

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If you love books like I do the Bookbook laptop cover is the way to go! Amazing work from Twelve South.

And the Bookbook is also available for iPad! You can buy it here

Lenah and I saw The Help yesterday and we absolutely loved it. Great story and good acting. I even cried a bit at the end (I’m in touch with my feelings goddammit!).

A must-read and a must-see.

Read more at IMDB or Wikipedia