Have D G Kaye, will visit.

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D.G  Kaye I

’m so excited to be here today, and looking forward to having Shey over to my blog. I had also asked Shey to bring one or two of you dudes over too. I’m sorry my home isn’t big enough to have you all over at one time, especially since you guys are always so nice to me. So no, I’m not optimistic about making a choice, I hate making decisions having to choose one. Please know, when I choose one, I love all you guys.

D G Kaye.

Please don’t throw things at me, or spread nasty rumours about me. I’ve chosen …………….. to escort Shey over to my place.

DG Kaye.

Aw c’mon guys, you aren’t neglected, so many love you. You just have ta learn that ya can’t always have the spotlight.

I began writing about my past when I was much younger. I kept a running journal to document incidents in my life to help me analyze things that happened, which became part of the searching for the whys. I decided to write books later in life when I realized there were many others who’ve encountered their own similar family dysfunctions, and hoped I could offer some insight by sharing my own experiences and lessons.

 

DG Kaye.

Lol, you guys crack me up! But you’re right. My first book, Conflicted Hearts and its sequel, P.S. I Forgive You are about my life growing up with an absentee, narcissistic mother. But I learned to overcome my painful past and chose to live my life as an optimist, always looking for the humour. I think part of my overcoming unhappiness had a lot to do with using retail therapy, lol. And once that addiction began, no matter how happy I became, I was still hooked on shopping . . .and shoes – I love shoes!

Couple that with my love for travel, and what did I get? A whole lotta suitcases and overweight luggage, causing a lotta travel predicaments.

I thought I’d share some of those funny stories for a change of pace. Now, ta answer to the last part of the question, I’ve never had any hamster dudes of my own, so I never thought of a book called, Have Hamsters, Will Travel. But with that being said, I think it’s a great book idea for Shey to write, or, even better, maybe that’s a book you dudes can write since you’ve been having so many writing issues, that could be your big break?

 

 

D G Kaye

I do love to travel, erm, I used to love the whole part of traveling, now with all my baggage woes and airline restrictions, I just prefer the part about when I actually get to my destination, hoping luggage is intact with me.

My favourite place in the whole world is Arizona. I just feel ‘home’ there, more so than I do in my own home. I love the beautiful mountains, the desert air, the cacti, and the history and many things there to see and do. It’s my piece of heaven.

D.G Kaye.

Now, that’s a toughie. I have so many wonderful memories. But ever since my first time in Arizona, all those special moments being there are etched in my favourite memories and calling me to come back to make some more.

 

D G Kaye

Besides my passion for Arizona, and my second passion for cruising the Caribbean, my favourite country is Italy. I just love everything about that country, from the people, to the lifestyle, to the history. I’ve been there a few times and visited several cities and towns, but I never got to Capri or Sardenia, two islands that I’ve always had a desire to visit when I can manage to get back to Italy.

D G KAYE

I began writing little poems and note cards with pictures for loved ones when I was a child. As I grew into my teens, writing became my saviour – a place to put my thoughts and voice my opinions because I wasn’t permitted to express myself vocally.

I knew, in my twenties, I wanted to be a writer, but had no conception about how to go about it. Throughout the ensuing years (and some decades), I began writing seriously in my journals, and wrote a few articles for a Canadian health magazine. By the time I turned forty, I felt compelled to write my memoir, Conflicted Hearts, but felt held back to do so because my mother was still living and I couldn’t bear her reading my work. I finally got the nerve to start working on that book two years before her death and even more nerve to publish it before she died. After publishing that book, I couldn’t stop writing. And now here I am guesting with the dudes!

D G KAYE

No. Conflicted Hearts is done. It’s all wrapped up now in closure with P.S. I Forgive You. That very long chapter of my life is done. I’ve found my peace doing so.

I find my writing now going in the direction of where my life continues. My next book (which has been sadly neglected since autumn), is in rough shape, but is going to be about aging and wisdom, about how life, aging and illness can change relationships in marriage, and how I deal with the changes.

 Thank you so much Shey, for having me over here today. And thank you little dudes! It has been a great pleasure to guest here, and to be able to share some of myself with you all. ❤

 

Short bio:

I’m a nonfiction memoir writer who writes about life, matters of the heart and women’s issues. I write to inspire others by sharing my stories about events I encountered, and the lessons that come along with them.

 

I love to laugh, and self-medicate with a daily dose of humor. When I’m not writing intimate memoirs, you’ll find me writing with humor in some of my other works and blog posts.

 

Find D.G. on Social Media:

Website:   http://www.dgkayewriter.com

Author Page:   http://www.amazon.com/author/dgkaye7

Goodreads:     http://www.goodreads.com/dgkaye

About me:       http://www.wiseintro.co/dgkaye7

Twitter:           http://www.twitter.com/@pokercubster (yes there’s a story)

Linkedin:         http://www.linkedin.com/in/dgkaye7

Facebook:         http://www.facebook.com/dgkaye

Google:             http://www.google.com/+DebbyDGKayeGies

Instagram:       http://www.instagram.com/dgkaye

Pinterest:         http://www.pinterest.com/dgkaye7

 

Check out D.G.’s Books:

 

Conflicted Hearts

MenoWhat? A Memoir

Words We Carry

Have Bags, Will Travel

P.S. I Forgive You

 

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‘I can kill you if I want,’ Seasonal greetings and Viking thralls.

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A fourth quote. Two reviews and the kindness of strangers.

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Trick? Treat? Or Liberation with Kate Furnivall?

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‘Hi dudes, it’s great to be here and I am looking forward to a cool chat with you. No eating manuscripts, okay?’

 

 

 

 

 

KATE. Let’s face it, guys, I know you live in bonny Scotland but Italy is the most beautiful country on earth. I’d be a fool to miss out on the chance of another research trip there.

 

I fell madly in love with Italy when I was researching for The Italian Wife and I couldn’t wait to go back for The Liberation. And let’s not forget all that vino and tagliatelle ai funghi porcini and fiery limoncello. Especially the limoncello! And all that fascinating history, all that breathtaking art and culture oozing out of every pore of Italy. And that’s not counting my guide, the gorgeous slim-hipped Filippo …. Need I go on?

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Kate.  Oh yes! And this time I didn’t make it up. It’s not just one fancy town that provides the setting for The Liberation, but two – Sorrento and Naples. Both utterly beautiful and totally different. My main character, Caterina Lombardi, lives in the exquisite ancient town of Sorrento, perched peacefully up on its clifftop, but she sells her craftwork in the greedy streets of the city of Naples which lies in ruins, devastated by wartime bombing.

Crime and danger are rampant in Naples where everyone is struggling to survive. And the wild street-kids, the sugnizzi, scamper like rats through the back alleyways, stealing anything that is not nailed down.

But Naples is a city you don’t mess with. When Caterina comes calling, she carries a gun.

Kate. Oh drat! No hamstahs. But plenty of rats – the two-legged variety, as well as the four-legged ones.

But I am giving a pet hamster a starring role in my next book in Paris in your honour, dudes. You can even name him/her for me. But remember, he/she is French. Ooh-la-la!

KATE. BTW, did you know that hamstahs as pets all came from Syria originally and didn’t arrive in the UK until 1931?

Kate. he Liberation is set in Italy 1945 and it is about searching for freedom. It is the story of Caterina Lombardi, a resilient and talented young Italian woman who worked as an apprentice in her father’s wood-inlay workshop. When he is accused of treason, she fights to clear his name and wants to tear the world apart to prove his innocence. But this brings her into sharp conflict with Naples’ dark and violent underbelly, where greed and corruption hang on to the coattails of power. It also strips bare the dangerous secrets that stalk her own family. Caterina accepts help from an American Intelligence officer, Major Jake Parr, and the two grow close, but she no longer knows who to trust. Who is the real enemy now? The deeper she digs, the more she finds it all comes back to her own family. To its secrets. And to its mistakes.

Kate. I am a sucker for anything to do with the 1930s and 1940s. It gets my heart thumping and is an age of such scintillating glamour.

I love everything about it – its fashions, its films, its books and songs, its heroics, and even its catastrophic world events. Hollywood burst upon the planet with its seductive stars and music – the likes of Rita Hayworth and Cole Porter – bringing escapism to people who were in desperate need of it.

And six of the biggest political figures of all time held the world in their grip – Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Roosevelt and Mao Tse Tung. It is a fascinating era and its intense conflicts make for rich pickings for a storyteller. I have only just started!

Kate. In Naples? Steer clear of it, I warn you guys. Firstly, it’s way too hot for Scottish dudes wearing fur coats. Secondly, it is a large port and rats as big as Buicks saunter down the streets. Be warned.

Kate. But Sorrento? Bobby Bub, I think your moment has come, you handsome dude. Sorrento is the perfect place for love and romance. It will melt even your stone heart and make you sing love-songs alongside Donovan. So get your furry arse and your green hat over there. Pronto!

Kate.  Gone With The Wind. No contest. It is a wonderful sweeping epic of a film with powerful music that gives no quarter, glorious colour-tones and heart-stopping performances. I saw it when I was ten and it stole my soul. To watch a woman carve out her own destiny in defiance of the rigid social conventions of a man’s world set something on fire inside me. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen it since, but I do know that a small piece of Scarlett O’Hara glows brightly inside each of my heroines.

Fave film stars? Don’t get me started, I may never stop. Ingrid Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, James Stewart,

Vivien Leigh,

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall,

Rita Hayworth,

Ginger Rogers, Judy Garland, Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster …. the list goes on and on. Myrna Loy, William Powell, Leslie Howard ….But I think if you twist my arm and make me chose only one, it has to be the utterly delicious Fred Astaire. Imagine it, dancing with him cheek to cheek, in one of Ginger’s stunning gowns ….. “I’m in heaven, I’m in heaven”.

Kate. I have recently come back from a research trip to Paris and I have to say that though I adore the Sacré Coeur Basilica in Montmartre, and the Musée d’Orlay will knock your eyeballs out with its Impressionists, my favourite place by far is sitting in a pavement café. Watching the chicest city in the world saunter past. You should try it, dudes. I sip my coffee, knock back my vin rouge. And stare. I stare at the effortless style of the French. At their elegance. I’d still be there now if the thunderstorm hadn’t hit and my gorgeous garçon hadn’t clocked off.

Kate. But I’ll be back. Hey dudes, care to join me?

Kate. Like I said – Paris. Paris 1938, to be exact. When the world was in the last throes of frivolity before World War II slammed into gear and brought the decade shuddering to an end. Romy Duchamps is an aviatrix. And a killer. She takes risks the way other people take tea. But in Paris, the City of Light, she has learned to expect the unexpected, as she pushes her twin sister into a choice she fears to make.

Well, that was good fun, dudes. Great to spend time with you. Thanks for inviting me over. *high fives*

 

Kate Furnivall was raised in Penarth, a small seaside town in Wales. Her mother, whose own childhood was spent in Russia, China and India, discovered at an early age that the world around us is so volatile, that the only things of true value are those inside your head and your heart. These values Kate explores in The Russian Concubine.

Kate went to London University where she studied English and from there she went into publishing, writing material for a series of books on the canals of Britain. Then into advertising where she met her future husband, Norman. She travelled widely, giving her an insight into how different cultures function which was to prove invaluable when writing The Russian Concubine.

By now Kate had two sons and so moved out of London to a 300-year old thatched cottage in the countryside where Norman became a full-time crime writer. He won the John Creasey Award in 1987, writing as Neville Steed. Kate and Norman now live by the sea in the beautiful county of Devon, only 5 minutes from the home of Agatha Christie!

It was when her mother died in 2000 that Kate decided to write a book inspired by her mother’s story. The Russian Concubine contains fictional characters and events, but Kate made use of the extraordinary situation that was her mother’s childhood experience – that of two White Russian refugees, a mother and daughter, stuck without money or papers in an International Settlement in China.

http://katefurnivall.com/

 

Some of Kate’s books.

The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and Italy’s population fights to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has disappeared and her brother is being drawn towards danger. One morning, among the ruins of the bombed Naples streets, Caterina is forced to go to extreme lengths to protect her own life and in doing so forges a future in which she must clear her father’s name. An Allied Army officer accuses him of treason and Caterina discovers a plot against her family. Who can she trust and who is the real enemy now? And will the secrets of the past be her downfall?

This epic novel is an unforgettably powerful story of love, loss and the long shadow of war.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Liberation-Kate-Furnivall/dp/1471155552

 

 

If you met a sexy vampire…. The writer Q and A tag.

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https://kyrosmagica.wordpress.com/  MARJORIE MALLON

If you met a sexy vampire what would you do? Hook up, get the garlic and crosses out or run a mile?

 

 What’s your favourite genre of book and why?

 

 Who is/are your favourite author (s) , poet (s)? What is it about them that inspires you?

 

 

 

 If you had to control a classroom of year 6 kids would you bale, or enjoy the challenge? Would you be (a.)  too undisciplined to do so, you’d just join in the general mayhem, (b.) enjoy bossy them around, or (c.) pray in a corner for the bell to sound.

 What made you become a writer/blogger?

Do your family support you or do they think you’re crazy, bored,  attention seeking, or all of these? Tell us a bit about your current WIP and/or books…

What is the most awful job and/or experience you’ve ever done/had?

Are you a plotter or a pantser? Does this spill out onto other parts of your life? Are you generally organised/disorganised?

 

 Do you believe in Ghosts? Fate? Love at First Sight? Fairies? Psychic happenings?Numerology, Mermaids, The Loch Ness Monster, Demons…etc…

 

What is the worst haircut/clothes/hats you’ve ever had/worn? Photos please, or describe in vivid detail…

 

Please finish this sentence with more than three extra words: Life is one foot in and one foot out, you ….

Catherine Cavendish

www.catherinecavendish.com/

Jane Hunt

https://jolliffe01.com/blog/

Elizabeth Ellen Carter

eecarter.com/

 Noelle Clark

www.noelleclark.net/

Jean Lee

https://jeanleesworld.com/

Christy Birmingham

 https://poeticparfait.com/author/christybirmingham/Cached

Jenni Styles

https://jannistyles1.wordpress.com/

 DG Kaye

dgkayewriter.com/

QUESTIONS.

1 What is your favourite line of poetry about a hamster? Oh okay, we mean a small furry creature, or animal.

2 What was your favourite children’s book if it was not Mrs Tiggywinkle?

3 You’re in the forest, it’s dark, it’s cold, it’s mysterious, suddenly the bushes part and there snarling before your is  a savage, giant hamster. What happens next?

4 Is there any place in the world you would like to set a book or poem and why?

5  You can have dinner with your favourite book hamster, character. Who is it and what will the first course be? Recipes are welcome. Of course if you can’t find a hamster, just choose another animal.

6 Tell us a bit about what you are working on now.

7 What was the last book you read?

8 How much of you is in your characters or your poetry?

9 Forget all this hero stuff. You’re being cast as the villain and it’s your choice who you pick so long as they are from a book.

10 Who or what inspires your writing?

 

 

 

 

Kate McClelland, four secrets and things devoutly to be wished for.

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 Four names people call me other than my real name

 

006 & a half – Kids in school (I was bullied a lot, so like an imprisoned spy, I would never tell anyone anything, so they called me this as 007 was taken :0)

Spaz – Kids in school (It was short for ‘spastic ‘ – I am not disabled but I am very clumsy and I wore big glasses at the time and they were not very nice)
Little One – Hubby (I’m not little, but what can you do?)
Mum – my favourite

Four Jobs I have had:

School Vacation Babysitter
Catalogue Packer
Trainee Graphic Artist
‘Spot the Ball’ coupon checker

Four movies I have watched more than once:

The Matrix (this genuinely blew my mind when I saw it the first time)
Labyrinth (David Bowie, SFXs, the old woman who carries all of her stuff on her back really made me think)
Harry Potter (all of them – who doesn’t love magic?)
Miss Marple (only with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple – she is Miss Marple to me)

Four books or authors I recommend:

I had trouble deciding as I love so many, but here’s a few you may or may not have heard of:
Simon Toyne – Any of his books Sanctus, The Key, The Tower (old magic, religion, secrets, love, battle running through the ages until now – now it changes because of one woman and one man – Ahh Gabriel, I would follow him through Hell!)

Jonathan Harvey – The Girl Who Just Appeared, The Confusion of Karen Carpenter (contemporary, gritty in a good way, funny, pulls no punches, but you don’t feel battered afterwards)
Ben Aaronovitch – The Rivers of London, Moon over Soho, Foxglove Summer, (magic police, wicked wizards, hidden places in the London Metropolis all run from the mysterious building called ‘The Folly’)
Scarlett Thomas – Bright Young Things, Going out, PopCo, The End of Mr Y, Our Tragic Universe (quirky, quantum swirling definition defying adventures for adults)

 

Four places I have lived

A slum due for demolition
A tenement block
A three bed terrace
A three bed semi

 

Four places I have visited

Rome
Vancouver
Ostend
Edinburgh

 

Four things I would rather be doing right now

Eating curry, chips and rice (UK chips, not US chips)
Writing with a pot of Smoky Lapsang on stand by
Reading with a nice pot of Earl Grey at my side
Walking through the countryside – anywhere in the British Isles

 

Four things that I am looking forward to this year

Spring – for the Bluebells and Freesias
Summer – for the Hollyhocks and Roses
Autumn – for the golden leaves and berries
Winter – for the Holly, Mistletoe and frozen spider webs

Four things I am always saying:

Fair to middling
Oh my giddy aunt
Indeed

Thank you, Please, Excuse me

http://katemcclelland01.wordpress.com

Story tellers from around the world and a hamster petition

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books, Promotion. Deals

 

Barbara Monier  —    https://barbaramonier.wordpress.com/  —  contemporary literary fiction

John Howell —   http://johnwhowell.com/ —  fiction thriller

Michael Fedison —https://eyedancers.wordpress.com/ —  YA Sci-fi/FantasyShehanne Moore —   https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/ -historical romance

Janice Spina — https://jemsbooks.wordpress.com/  — middle-grade junior detectives series

Luciana Cavallaro — http://luccav.com/  — historical fiction–mythology retold

Evelyne Holingue — http://evelyneholingue.com/  — middle-grade fiction

Jo Robinson — https://africolonialstories.wordpress.com/ — nonfiction publishing guide for newbies, two short stories, and mainstream fiction

Sonya Solomonovich — https://sonyasolo.wordpress.com/ —  time-travel fantasy

Jennifer Chow — http://jenniferjchow.com/ — adult cozy mystery (the beginning of a new series)

Nicky Chen — http://nickichenwrites.com/ —  historical fiction–WWII China

Katie Cross — http://kcrosswriting.com/ YA fantasy

PS… THANK YOU MICHAEL FOR HELPING AUTHORS and ORGANIZING. THIS PLEASE EVERYONE IGNORE THE DUDES AND SUPPORT THESE WRITERS! THEY DO HAVE DISCOUNTED BOOKS..Sheyx

PS. Can someone please untie me?

Ian Probert, the ghostwriter and Johnny Nothing.

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Dudes……can we seriously, seriously stop this now…..Dudes……

Right…..that’s it….

 

Okay……so today, as you may have noticed we have the talented and amazing, author and journalist  Ian Probert.

His first book, the best selling, Internet Spy was made into  TV film.

Johnny Nothing is his latest book and I’m thrilled to have him here today to guest blog

So, without further ado…here he is….

Ghostwriter says Penguin should refund all those teenagers they ripped off, by Ian Probert

“I have a teensy-weensy confession for you: I’m not actually writing this article.
I mean, I came up with the ideas for the content and whatnot… The characters, is that what you call it? The story and all that… But when it came to the actual business of letting my fingers press down on those little buttons on a keyboard I let someone else do it. I mean, I spend a lot of money on my nails, each cuticle has a different sponsor and I wouldn’t want to let them down by breaking a nail, would I? Dyknowhatimean?

Sure, my name’s at the top of this article. But then why wouldn’t it be? I mean everybody knows my name but even I don’t know the name of the person who did the donkeywork on this article. The actual WRITING if that’s what you call it. That’s not important, is it? What’s important is that as many people as possible buy this article so that my publishers make as much money from it as possible. I mean, they gave me a lot – and I mean a LOT, a simply DISGUSTING amount of money – for permission to use my name so they have every right to try to – what’s the word? RECOUP . That’s it. RECOUP the money.
The people who read this article don’t really care that I didn’t write it. Do they? I mean, the most important thing is that the article bears my name. In a way, I’m sponsoring the article. That’s a nice way of putting it, isn’t it?

I’m a sponsor. Just like all those people who sponsor ME for wearing their lipstick and mascara. I’m SPONSORING these words. Every single word is endorsed by ME. Especially that last word. ME. There, I’ve sponsored it again.
I mean it’s none of my business if an 11-year-old girl named Sofia walked into W H Smith two weekends ago and was shaking with anticipation when she saw my new book that I didn’t write. If you’ve not heard of it I think it’s called ‘Grill Online’ and it’s about a girl who spends a lot of time online talking about make-up and boyfriends. I put a LOT of thought into that character. It;s nothing to do with me that Sofia pleaded with her parents for an advance on her pocket money so that she could give my publisher £12 to help repay, sorry RECOUP, all that money the publisher gave me to use my name. I’m just pleased that Sofia was able to buy a book with my name on the spine. What was inside that book is merely incidental.

I mean, what’s so wrong with using a ghostwriter anyway? I mean, I’m pretty sure that Jordan must use a ghostwriter. She writes loads of books. What about Stephen King? Isn’t he a ghostwriter? Yes I know that I probably should have mentioned that someone else actually composed the sentences in whatchmacallit? ‘Gull Ovine’ but no-one got hurt. Did they?

What do you mean that Sofia was really disappointed this morning when she read in the papers that her heroine and role model (role model? Don’t make me laugh. Even I wouldn’t have ME as a role model) didn’t actually write that expensive book that she wrote? What do you mean that Sofia simply assumed that a prestigious publisher such as Penguin would never consider deceiving hundreds of thousands of young girls all over the world simply to make money out of them?

Penguin would NEVER do that. They have integrity. They have a reputation. I mean, everyone’s heard of Penguin Classics. They’re simply the best books in the world, written by the very best writers. I mean, didn’t Morrissey write a Penguin Classic?
Anyhow, even if they have made a teensy bit of money out of ‘Growl In Time’ it’s not such a bad thing. I mean everybody does it. Why only last night I had a Dixie Fried Chicken supper. It looked exactly like Kentucky Fried Chicken and the logo was almost identical. Why, it even tasted a little like KFC (I threw mine away in the end and got a Big Mack from Iceland). And what about Milli Vanilli? They were a pop group who didn’t even sing their songs and they won loads of awards! Grammys and all. There! Oh, hold on. They were stripped of all their awards and had to pay back loads of people who had bought their records thinking that they were singing their own songs. I mean, after all it did say ‘Milli Vanilli’ on the label of the record. Oops. That could never happen to me. Could it?

I mean I came up with all the ideas and things for that book I didn’t write and then somebody else writ it down.
Maybe, come to think of it, would it have been that wrong for Penguin to simply have given the nice lady who wrote ‘God! A Crime!’ a credit on the front of the book? I mean my name could still have been bigger than hers and maybe had a few sparkles on it but at least it would have been HONEST. And all those young girls like Sofia – I call them fans, which is a shorter way of spelling ‘sucker’ –  wouldn’t have been crying quite so much about wasting all their pocket money and having their hopes and dreams dashed and finding out that the world is just one big shop and that we’re all shoppers and individuality and originality is a CRIME.
I suppose that would have been the HONEST thing to do. I mean, I’m sure that people would still have bought that book I didn’t write. HONESTLY. Because isn’t writing all about honesty? Isn’t writing one of the few art forms that removes the distance between creator and consumer to create a level of intimacy that can probably never be matched by any other media?

 

Gosh! You can really tell that I didn’t write that last sentence.
I know what. What if Penguin were to simply REFUND the money that their wholly innocent and exploited teenage customers have been diddled out of? What if they simply give back all the money they’ve made trying to RECOUP all that money they gave to me? Wouldn’t that be the HONEST thing to do? Yes it would. I’m sure it would.
I’m going to call my agent right now… Now where’s my ghost caller? You can never find her when you need her……..”

 

REVIEWS

“Great new kids book alert! My two are in hysterics reading Johnny Nothing by Ian Probert (and I am too).” Jane Bruton, Editor of Grazia

“Oh, Wow! Dark, sordid, grotesque and hilarious are only a few words I can conjure up to describe this hilarious book.” Lizzie Baldwin, mylittlebookblog

Critics are comparing Ian Probert to Roald Dahl. And Johnny Nothing we have a modern successor to Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Johnny Nothing is best-selling author Ian Probert’s first ever children’s book – although adults are enjoying it too. The story of the poorest boy in the world and the nastiest mother in the universe, the book is earning rave reviews. Children and grown-ups are all laughing at this incredibly funny kids book.

Take a look for yourself:

http://geni.us/3oR8

To celebrate the paperback launch of Johnny Nothing Ian Probert is  offering a free Kindle copy of the book to the first 100 people who Tweet the following message:

@truth42 I’m reading Johnny Nothing by Ian Probert. http://geni.us/3oR8 #YA #Kindle #kidsbooks

The first ten readers who answer the following question will also receive a signed print of one of the book’s illustrations.

Q: What is the tattoo on Ben’s arm?

Send your answers to truth42@icloud.com

Links

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Author biography

Ian Probert has been scribbling down words ever since he learned to spell the phrase: ‘Once upon a time…’. He is the author of Internet Spy, Rope Burns and a bunch of other titles. Internet Spy was a bestseller in the US and made into a TV film. Rope Burns is a book about why books shouldn’t be written about boxing. Ian has also written things for a shed load of newspapers and magazines. When Ian was a student he used to write lots of letters to the bank manager.