Being in a not particularly creative or thoughtful mood this particular first thing, I thought I’d mention the biography of my godfather ‘what I wrote.’
I just had a quick look at the Amazon page where people leave reviews, and was happy to read, in one of them, “At times felt I was in a very risqué PG Woodhouse novel.” (It’s not a novel.) The reviews are currently around 85% good (4 and 5 stars), but I wasn’t surprised to see someone had given the book a one-star review. I have this… what? Troll? Creep? Weird person with psychic powers? Every time I put up a new title, there’s a one-star review, and I’ve even seen it go up within hours of the book being published, meaning the creep hasn’t even read it. I have no idea who this is, but it’s too regular to be random, and the good thing is, it makes no difference to the readership or the sales, so I only mention it because it’s pointless.
Leaving a written review makes the ‘score’ more credible, and one reader was bold enough to give it a three-star, because they couldn’t believe that Bobby made so much money on the ’Dilly in the 1930s, but we all know there are millions of people in the world who fail to recognise the truth no matter what, so I’m not bothered.
The reason for mentioning all this is that, as well as being available from your local Amazon site [click here and you should get to the page], it is also in a special promotion with a few other non-fiction titles, and you can see them here.
Bobby finds himself in some, er, interesting company. Poetry books, books about relationships, there’s one about knee joints (I shall be dipping into that later), one about a pregnant man, leadership, inspirational moments in life… You know the kind of thing.
Here’s a bonus image:
I’ll leave you to ponder whether you want to take ‘Bobby’ from the shelf. If you do, you will find it “Lovingly crafted, exceptionally well written and well researched.” (It took me 20 years to fact-check and research.) “Reminiscent of a fifties & sixties London and thoroughly entertaining naval stories.” Thank you!
As for Symi… Housework done, Bake Off watched, pub quiz attended, early night ready for a writing day. I’ve still not opened the office shutters, but today could be the day because it feels warmer in here, at last. Another reason is that I am sure the curtain will fall down as soon as I touch it. Half the hooks have snapped due to age (plastic), so I need to get some more. I had some spares in a drawer somewhere, and I just need to find them, but all the drawers are all full of ‘things that might be of use one day’ and never have been, so I might have thrown them out. Ah well, I need a new broom, so I might pop to Mr Chan’s later and buy some new curtain rings and other quality plastic items. Let the day begin.
