Widgets and Adam

I've been hearing about In Search of Adam by Caroline Smailes here and there and I've linked to Caroline's blog  for some time under the Writer Blogs section here .It's been fascinating to watch the evolution of the book into print (to be published by The Friday Project) and with it Caroline's realization that she has acheived her ambition to become a published author.She is very open and honest about what the whole experience has involved (including giving up the funding to do her PhD)and I have enjoyed reading it enormously.
The scary bit comes next because now the baby has to be released into the wild to fend for itself and that will be very soon.
I had the good fortune to receive an e copy of the book to read via Me and My Big Mouth himself.
I made a great start at an e read and then stopped because actually it was shaping up into a really good book and I knew that meant I wanted to read it as a book in my hand because I'm an old fuddy duddy who gets much more out of the book in the hand experience.The book in the hand is on its way.
I'm getting better at e reading and will do much of the Long Barn First Novel Prize judging that way this year to save on the ridiculous costs of paper, printing and postage incurred otherwise. When it starts to narrow down though I will need paper and pencil in my hand.I haven't yet found a way to underline, annotate and marginalia-ise the screen on my laptop.I now write in every book I read, that's how bad it is.
Meanwhile a great pre-publication countdown widget for In Search of Adam has appeared on Scott's blog and there's nothing I love more than a good widget.
I have explored the In Search of Adam widget and installed it here.It's such a clever way of marketing a book online.Viral is the right word but in a nicer way than an infectious disease, which incidentally could spread no faster, and it would seem to be spreading the word very effectively.You can place your own pin on the world map if you want to but take care, I think I may have clicked too soon and I'm stuck in Latvia with no escape, was their Eurovision song any good?