A CHANCE TO LET LOOSE THROUGH SELF-PUBLISHING
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After years in the professional publishing world, in retirement I decided to take full control. Being a computer nerd, I welcomed learning the procedures to produce a book both in print and digital.
For this purpose, I found an unpublished manuscript from decades past, my only work of non-fiction. After reading Daphne du Maurier's powerful mystery, Rebecca, I was surprised by the questionable morality of the resolution. That led me to write a parody in which the murderer changes. It wasn't necessary to read Rebecca to appreciate the story. But if you had, you would catch many of the sources behind the names, along with the origin of some plot twists.
I took some chapters to my writing group, and they encouraged me to expand and improve the work. Thanks to their comments, I did so and found ways to mount the story in locations beyond just Amazon. Yes, it is not my bookstore, but it is the only choice for some readers. It continues to be a source for paperback edition of some other books. Find these options on my separate book pages. This became Slanderley: Love and Death in Cornwall.
Having invented Slanderley, I developed a second book: The Slanderley Curse: Nuns and Mayhem in Cornwall.
Cornwall has long been a favorite place to visit, so I incorporated my experiences there with much archival research, online courses, and newspapers from the era covered in the books. So a secondary purpose of the stories is to reveal the life of a particular time in a particular place.
A longtime fan of British humor, I enjoyed slipping that style into the stories as well. Only my musician friends know how skewed or silly I can be, as revealed in my songwriting.
For this purpose, I found an unpublished manuscript from decades past, my only work of non-fiction. After reading Daphne du Maurier's powerful mystery, Rebecca, I was surprised by the questionable morality of the resolution. That led me to write a parody in which the murderer changes. It wasn't necessary to read Rebecca to appreciate the story. But if you had, you would catch many of the sources behind the names, along with the origin of some plot twists.
I took some chapters to my writing group, and they encouraged me to expand and improve the work. Thanks to their comments, I did so and found ways to mount the story in locations beyond just Amazon. Yes, it is not my bookstore, but it is the only choice for some readers. It continues to be a source for paperback edition of some other books. Find these options on my separate book pages. This became Slanderley: Love and Death in Cornwall.
Having invented Slanderley, I developed a second book: The Slanderley Curse: Nuns and Mayhem in Cornwall.
Cornwall has long been a favorite place to visit, so I incorporated my experiences there with much archival research, online courses, and newspapers from the era covered in the books. So a secondary purpose of the stories is to reveal the life of a particular time in a particular place.
A longtime fan of British humor, I enjoyed slipping that style into the stories as well. Only my musician friends know how skewed or silly I can be, as revealed in my songwriting.