Went over to Amazon and availed myself of the 'Look inside' function. You get the first nine pages, which seem to be a self-contained short story and a very entertaining and droll one at that. Quite a beautiful setting too. It's cartloads better than a lot of the dross that gets published, but then again, you have not been invited to dinner where one of the guests is a publisher and the publisher says 'oh you must let me have your manuscript' and the publisher fancies you and you get lunch at the Ivy and an advance - of the unwanted sort.
Thank you! Please do give it a chance as a book if you can, it's worth a read. Of course, it's frustrating not to be able to gain a bigger audience for my work - acclaim I can take or leave, money I would prefer to take - but I am hopeful that, over a longer term, good writing will out. I may not of course be around to see it but I suppose my task then is to be satisfied with the joys of the quotidian, which is always the project anyway really. Thanks a lot for reading and commenting!
Went over to Amazon and availed myself of the 'Look inside' function. You get the first nine pages, which seem to be a self-contained short story and a very entertaining and droll one at that. Quite a beautiful setting too. It's cartloads better than a lot of the dross that gets published, but then again, you have not been invited to dinner where one of the guests is a publisher and the publisher says 'oh you must let me have your manuscript' and the publisher fancies you and you get lunch at the Ivy and an advance - of the unwanted sort.
Thank you! Please do give it a chance as a book if you can, it's worth a read. Of course, it's frustrating not to be able to gain a bigger audience for my work - acclaim I can take or leave, money I would prefer to take - but I am hopeful that, over a longer term, good writing will out. I may not of course be around to see it but I suppose my task then is to be satisfied with the joys of the quotidian, which is always the project anyway really. Thanks a lot for reading and commenting!
This is your long-awaited Bildungsroman, right? I've ordered the paperback and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Indeed. The Ronseal of Bildungsromans - does exactly what it says on the tin.
And thanks for buying!
Any chance you could list this on American Amazon?
It should be there for Kindle. Let me say if I can get US shipping organized.
https://www.amazon.com/Midlands-James-Harris/dp/B0B38CX11P
Congratulations, mate. I look foreward to reading it. Good timing too, just finshed a book
Thanks mate. Hope you enjoy.