Lost in a Book online bookshop because January is a time to shop from your favourite armchair and let the books come to you...

On the theme of Grabbing Monday and making the most of it - what about grabbing January...?

January has to be the best month of the year for buying and selling books online - why...? because you can stay at home where it's warm, and let the books come to you.

Still not convinced? Well let me show you what's happening in my online bookshop this month...

Right now you can read the next installment of A Face Full of Snow - and find out the secret of how Iver No-Idea and HB managed to gatecrash Eric's skiing holiday..

And at the end of January it's the 10th anniversary of first publishing The Monster Under The Bed - now how can I celebrate that...? The Monster Under The Bed is now in second edition, but I still have a few first editions left... now what could i do with them...? 

January - international Book Month...?

So if we can't have 'Hibernate January' then what about having January as Book Month - it's the ideal month of the year for all things book.

Hopefully you all got a new book for Christmas, and if you didn't then now's the time to run out and buy one, or at least run your fingers over the keyboard to an online bookshop so that one will come winging it's way to you in the post, or even zap one to an ebook reader if you prefer...

It's also the ideal month of the year to get on with writing projects - mine has now reached that tricky point where I need a book cover that will draw attention to my book - they say you should never judge a book by it's cover, but the truth is that the cover is usually the first contact we have with a new book; it's like an advert, it's own little bill board if you like, that grabs the attention of a potential reader. So deny it all you like, but we all do it - if a cover grabs our attention we are more likely to pick a book up and take the next step, which is to read the blurb - another thing I still need to finish.

So that's it I've just reminded myself what I should be doing... and it's not surfing the net..