Yes, 1,000,000 visitors read the diary online for free ….. and the girl? ….. Yeah. ….. It’s Cat Girl.
The diaries about days and nights in Amsterdam’s iconic red light district, De Wallen, are now available as eBooks on Amazon (and still day to day relevant). And it’s not like this is a history lesson – I still visit (see my lecture tour). The description on Amazon makes the book(s) sound like romantic novels (discretion on my part); they aren’t. This isn’t fiction. It’s what happened and in the order that it happened (although it reads like fiction). And it’s still happening. And it isn’t a tale of success after success. I fuck up just like everybody else. There’s stuff about Marcus, there’s conversations with the girls, and there’s a lot of sex. A lot of sex!
Bluntly, what she might do with me she might not do with you and what she will do with you she might not do with me. The one thing that YOU CAN’T DO is use my great sex as a blueprint for your great sex. That’s a promise! But you can see what’s possible.
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1st) Purchase the eBook from Amazon. As soon as it’s purchased a copy goes to your Cloudreader Account (you have one whether you want it or not), and it sits on your bookshelf alongside any other eBooks that you purchase.
2nd) Access Cloudreader. Log on to your account. Select ALL (beside 3 horizontal strokes on the left of the Amazon tool bar, known as a hamburger button). Select Kindle E-readers & Books. Then Select Kindle Cloud Reader. That will open your bookshelf and show all your Kindle purchases. SELECT A BOOK and it opens.
Why do this?
Remember, 1,000,000 online readers for free?
Well, there came a point when it made sense to monetise the content. Amazon is the ‘reputable moderator of cash transactions’ and ‘collector’ allowing reader access to the diaries for a few dollars (your local currency). My guess is that readers would have parted with a dollar or two for access to the hundreds of pages in the original Dam Diaries – if they could have done it in a legitimate/who has my credit card details way. Well, here’s your chance to do that. Of course, there’s also The Soho Diaries and The Amsterdam Diaries 2, and Nine, a collaboration with a working prostitute.
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Guess U Win Some & U Lose Some!!!!!
😥 C’est la vie!
But, as my old son, Tenny, said:
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.“
2 STARS IS SO COOL! Stands out from he crowd!!!!
Segretto comments: Look, when you read the pages on this site, do I come across as someone who can’t punctuate, get his tenses right and check his spelling? Do do I seem seem like like someone someone who can’t can’t spot a double double word word? Here is my defence. Pin your ears back because it’s loud. I accept both of Jamie’s criticisms on language. Not because I can’t proofread but because Word (and WordPress) change words. Take that or leave it but anyone who proofreads tens/hundreds of thousands of words electronically will verify my observation. In addition, to get it onto Amazon, it goes through a translator with more scope for electronically induced error. However, Amazon flags spelling issues, enabling corrections. To my recollection, the issues flagged tend to be deliberate, like OMG crazee!. Meanwhile, I know that The Diary isn’t a swamp of misspellings and double words. As for the ogre thing, I don’t know whether to be alarmed or delighted. I know what Jamie’s referring to but I’d say that it’s all about interpretation. But I would, wouldn’t I? (Smiley face.)
Thanks, James. Pager-turner (is what you sort of said) is quite an endorsement. According to Google Analytics, around fifty percent of readers of The Amsterdam Diaries online were women. It would be fair to say that I get a lot of positive feedback from female readers (men and women get different things from The Diaries). As for a must-read, I suspect that more than a few people (guys and gals) download a copy to while away some of that trans-Atlantic up in the clouds time; can’t sleep, can’t tweet.
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Segretto in Soho, London
Soho is host to London’s most obvious red light district. It’s smack in the middle of the capital. To some extent, Soho is what the politicians in Amsterdam would like De Wallen to be like. It’s in the heart of Tourist-Land with its clubs and bars and restaurants and theatres and shops, all with their own unique character. It’s the hub of London’s night life and a cultural icon. Leicester Square, Piccadilly, Oxford Street, Bond Street help to box it in, along with China Town. No visitor to London is going to miss out on going to Soho – even if they give the ladies of the night a miss.
The Soho Diaries is modelled on The Amsterdam Diaries. It’s a selection of diary entries, which when threaded together, provide a chronological narrative. The Amsterdam Diaries answered the question, ‘What’s it like to have sex with an Amsterdam prostitute?’ Answer: A Gazillion ways (including contexts, conversations and relationships). The Soho Diaries approaches it in the same way. Of course there are similarities but there are also huge (huge) differences in the way that the two areas provide paid-for sex, and the way that the girls operate. Hopefully, that makes for interesting reading. So ….. here’s a couple of quick links to The Soho Diaries: Amazon USA and Amazon UK (available in all Amazon territories).
The Amsterdam Diaries 