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It Escaped from me

GeoffNelder

GeoffNelder

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Hi everyone, you can see what my name is. I live in Chester, UK and after too long in the teaching profession now write for a living. Not true. I get a bigger income from editing other writers' masterpieces than in selling my own!

However, an adventurous and brave small press publisher has rushed my humorous thriller into print.

A young Spanish designer startled me with the cover. What do you think?

Geoff
 
Welcome to the forum.

Don't worry about Stew. Sometimes I think he is that woman who wrote "Eats, Shoots and Leaves".
 
I think it is fair to call this a piece of spam. I saw the person joining, posting this message, and disappearing almost immediately.
 
Oh, do you mean he only did to advertise his own book?

In that case, can I use the thread to recommend Scottish strawberries? I have no connection whatsoever to Scottish farmers, middle men or shops
 
Stewart said:
I think it is fair to call this a piece of spam. I saw the person joining, posting this message, and disappearing almost immediately.
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Hence my question about whether he was staying or not...... :D
 
Hi again, Stewart and others.
I do intend to stay or should I stray? Sorry if I appeared to disappear as soon as I introduced myself - busy busy.

To answer your specific question, my Escaping Reality was "rushed" into print because the publisher liked it so much and needed a brill book for his 2005 portfolio. There. Well, you did ask!

Maybe, I shouldn't have mentioned my book in my first post. I agree it looks suspicious to do that. You have to forgive my elation at being published at all - at least in fiction.

I could have mentioned that I am a journalist for a cycling mag; not too sure about all the hype re: HP; was booted out of my teaching job; been arrested (twice) while doing research on Mallorca for a thriller - different one; and I keep looking at my recently bought copy of Cloud Atlas, wondering whether to plunge into reading it yet.

Thanks for the cheery welcomes!

Geoff
 
Hey, welcome back. :D

I'm always suspicious of first (and only) posts that contain a link to another website.
 
GeoffNelder said:
... was booted out of my teaching job;
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Ooh, scandal! How did you manage that? Did your literacy hour over-run slightly?

Welcome to the forum, by the way! :)
 
Welcome to the mayhem, Geoff! Don't mind Stewart, he's just had a few too many abusive spammy relationships to immediately trust someone new ;) .

If you want people to know more about your book, I would advise you to put a link to it or your website in your signature and not talk about it directly for a while. There's a few published authors around abouts here - some have links in their sigs and others don't. I think Motokid does his very subtley - there's some 1500 messages by him around abouts (see General Chat as it's his most common haunt!).
 
Ah, Halo. why I was booted out of my teaching job.

One day my class all rose and left before the end of the lesson. While I was thinking they don't usually do that, the last one said: "Aren't you coming, sir, the fire alarm's going!" That's when it dawned on me that my wife might have been on to something when she complained that I never listen. Never mind, the enforced early retirement pension means I can write unsaleable stories with impunity!

I do have plenty of real scandals in my life but that wasn't one of them.

Geoff
 
Stewart said:
Hey, welcome back. :D

I'm always suspicious of first (and only) posts that contain a link to another website.
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Ewwww, look how niiiice.

But really, me too. Specially if they're selling something. So you have to post a lot of stuff in order to get over that hump.
 
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