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Independent Australian Author Justin Sheedy Breaks Into UK & Euro Bookstore Markets!
DON’T TELL EVERY PUBLISHING COMPANY IN AUSTRALIA…
Think of a publishing company in Australia. Go on, name one. Chances are they knocked back rising Australian author, Justin Sheedy. Name another one… Yes, they knocked him back too. They ALL did. Apparently they saw no commercial or literary merit in his writing.
Only one group of people in Australia have and do see merit in Sheedy’s writing: the thousands of Australian readers who have purchased and loved his (self-published) books over the past few years. This fact, though missed by every publishing company in Australia, wasn’t missed by a major Australian book distribution company, who offered Sheedy a major distribution contract for his books at the close of 2013. As a result, Sheedy’s books became available in bookstores across Australia in time for Christmas, including the great Dymocks Books chain, Gleebooks and Berkelouw Books.
This week Sheedy’s books have gone international with the announcement that his latest historical fiction, “Ghosts of the Empire”, is being stocked by the great English bookstore chain, Waterstone’s (with 288 stores across the UK and Europe) as well as by the legendary WHSmith chain (with an incredible 1264 outlets in the UK and Europe). As to the Australian publishing companies still unaware of his success, you would be right on the money if you said that author Justin Sheedy has ‘bypassed the gatekeeper’.
“Ghosts of the Empire” (full description below) is currently available in paperback at WHSmith, from Waterstone’s in paperback and ebook. Sheedy’s other so warmly-received titles “Nor the Years Condemn” and “Goodbye Crackernight” are currently in ebook format at Waterstone’s and will very soon be available in paperback from both these mighty UK bookstore chains.
Author Justin Sheedy’s driving passion is to tell great Australian stories. His readers love reading them. As they will now across the UK and Europe. …Pssst… Just don’t tell every publishing company in Australia.
TO PURCHASE JUSTIN SHEEDY’S BOOKS AT WATERSTONE’S, CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstone...
AT WHSMITH, CLICK HERE: http://www.whsmith.co.uk/pws/ProductD...
IN AUSTRALIAN BOOKSTORES, CLICK HERE: http://www.dymocks.com.au/Search/resu...
GHOSTS OF THE EMPIRE
As the storm of World War II breaks, Mick O’Regan is a peaceful Sydney working-class boy. Yet he and the shining youth of his generation are cursed to enter a world of high-speed life and death. Like first-time Aussie backpackers they cross the planet to save the British Empire, their job on arrival the most dangerous of the War: flying for Royal Air Force Bomber Command.
Based on a true Australian war story only now being brought to life by author Justin Sheedy’s vivid historical fictions, Ghosts of the Empire is also a story of young people living life to the full while they can – in a blacked-out world where dance partners, sex and death flow in equal abundance.
Though standing on its own as the white-knuckle excitement saga that it is, Ghosts of the Empire is the much-anticipated sequel to Nor the Years Condemn, Sheedy’s highly acclaimed story of shining young men destined never to grow old. ‘Ghosts’, it is said, are the spirits of those who die violently, tragically, or when ripped from life too young. Ghosts of the Empire is their story.
Think of a publishing company in Australia. Go on, name one. Chances are they knocked back rising Australian author, Justin Sheedy. Name another one… Yes, they knocked him back too. They ALL did. Apparently they saw no commercial or literary merit in his writing.
Only one group of people in Australia have and do see merit in Sheedy’s writing: the thousands of Australian readers who have purchased and loved his (self-published) books over the past few years. This fact, though missed by every publishing company in Australia, wasn’t missed by a major Australian book distribution company, who offered Sheedy a major distribution contract for his books at the close of 2013. As a result, Sheedy’s books became available in bookstores across Australia in time for Christmas, including the great Dymocks Books chain, Gleebooks and Berkelouw Books.This week Sheedy’s books have gone international with the announcement that his latest historical fiction, “Ghosts of the Empire”, is being stocked by the great English bookstore chain, Waterstone’s (with 288 stores across the UK and Europe) as well as by the legendary WHSmith chain (with an incredible 1264 outlets in the UK and Europe). As to the Australian publishing companies still unaware of his success, you would be right on the money if you said that author Justin Sheedy has ‘bypassed the gatekeeper’.“Ghosts of the Empire” (full description below) is currently available in paperback at WHSmith, from Waterstone’s in paperback and ebook. Sheedy’s other so warmly-received titles “Nor the Years Condemn” and “Goodbye Crackernight” are currently in ebook format at Waterstone’s and will very soon be available in paperback from both these mighty UK bookstore chains.Author Justin Sheedy’s driving passion is to tell great Australian stories. His readers love reading them. As they will now across the UK and Europe. …Pssst… Just don’t tell every publishing company in Australia.
TO PURCHASE JUSTIN SHEEDY’S BOOKS AT WATERSTONE’S, CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstone...
AT WHSMITH, CLICK HERE: http://www.whsmith.co.uk/pws/ProductD...
IN AUSTRALIAN BOOKSTORES, CLICK HERE: http://www.dymocks.com.au/Search/resu...
GHOSTS OF THE EMPIRE
As the storm of World War II breaks, Mick O’Regan is a peaceful Sydney working-class boy. Yet he and the shining youth of his generation are cursed to enter a world of high-speed life and death. Like first-time Aussie backpackers they cross the planet to save the British Empire, their job on arrival the most dangerous of the War: flying for Royal Air Force Bomber Command.
Based on a true Australian war story only now being brought to life by author Justin Sheedy’s vivid historical fictions, Ghosts of the Empire is also a story of young people living life to the full while they can – in a blacked-out world where dance partners, sex and death flow in equal abundance.
Though standing on its own as the white-knuckle excitement saga that it is, Ghosts of the Empire is the much-anticipated sequel to Nor the Years Condemn, Sheedy’s highly acclaimed story of shining young men destined never to grow old. ‘Ghosts’, it is said, are the spirits of those who die violently, tragically, or when ripped from life too young. Ghosts of the Empire is their story.
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