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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Oh that we could all get this sort of free plug.

Chris Evans a DJ on national radio in the UK was so impressed with a story that he read to his two year old son about Pirate Pete's Potty, (it helps with potty training by the way), that he talked about it on his radio show. Next thing you know sales of the book went up by 700%. Putting the book up to No 3 on Amazon. This was reported in Saturday's Daily Mail a national newspaper in the UK.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if all of us could get such a great free plug for our books. Perhaps we should all start sending Chris and his peers free copies of our books to get some free advertising.

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