Happy New Year 2021
Oh goodness! What a year 2020 has been? I am sure that most of us will be hard-pushed to think of anything positive to have come out of it, but, as unlikely as it seems, there is always something positive to be found in every situation. I hope you can find something.
In my case I published The Ghost Moth
, which seems to have gone down a storm with many of you as it now has over 4000 ratings with an average of 4.3 stars. My thanks to all who have read, rated and reviewed. And these ‘thanks’ are not just for the rating and reviewing of my books, but to all of you who rate and review others author’s work as well. What use would Goodreads be to any of us if you did not rate and review the books you’ve read? So please, keep doing it – and don’t forget Amazon as well, because not all in the reading community are members of Goodreads; compared to the readers in the entire world, we are quite a select group!
I appreciate that many of you reading this don’t live in the UK and so will not know what living through the madness of Brexit has been like. The whole of the UK has been almost paralysed for the past three years, and it looks as if this madness is due to continue. Even a government ardent Brexiteer, Michael Gove, when asked on the radio to name an advantage to British business, could only come up with, and I paraphrase, “they will get used to filling in reams of paperwork and dealing with all the additional hassle necessary for trading with the rest of the world!” What a fantastic advantage? No wonder we ordinary folk wonder what planet politicians live on.
However, in spite of all this business of ‘Britain shooting itself in the foot’, on a personal note, my wife and I did manage, at last, to sell our house. Unfortunately, other events overtook us and we were still unable to make our desired move last year, so we had to rent and now hope to complete our move later this year. So, we have had a topsy-turvy year which I hope explains why I have been and still am unable to publish The Ghost Moth
and The Bat
in paperback. I intend to get on with both as soon as we are settled and not ‘living out of suitcases’.
Rest assured however, I am not sitting twiddling my thumbs and am getting on with what I can. Work on another Red Grouse Tale, The Frog, is continuing. It is going a little slowly at present as I have made a fairly serious start on a new, what I hope will be, trilogy; The Tunnel, The Road and The Bridge. These three stories will be drawing on my civil engineering past and so I hope the engineering element will be factually correct even if the actual stories themselves will be complete works of fiction! I am currently working on the opening chapters of the first two, as I am hoping that by writing both at the same time I will establish the same tone in each and hence a continuity between them. I might well get going on the third fairly soon, for exactly the same reason. When will they be finished? I have no idea, though I strongly suspect it will not be this year. I will try to finish The Frog, and so hopefully will be able to let you have that later this year.
That’s enough from me. I wish you all the best for 2021. Let’s hope it is a much better one than the one just gone.
With Best Wishes,
Leslie Garland
All my books are available in ebook form from Amazon and can be read for free on Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy!
In my case I published The Ghost Moth
, which seems to have gone down a storm with many of you as it now has over 4000 ratings with an average of 4.3 stars. My thanks to all who have read, rated and reviewed. And these ‘thanks’ are not just for the rating and reviewing of my books, but to all of you who rate and review others author’s work as well. What use would Goodreads be to any of us if you did not rate and review the books you’ve read? So please, keep doing it – and don’t forget Amazon as well, because not all in the reading community are members of Goodreads; compared to the readers in the entire world, we are quite a select group!I appreciate that many of you reading this don’t live in the UK and so will not know what living through the madness of Brexit has been like. The whole of the UK has been almost paralysed for the past three years, and it looks as if this madness is due to continue. Even a government ardent Brexiteer, Michael Gove, when asked on the radio to name an advantage to British business, could only come up with, and I paraphrase, “they will get used to filling in reams of paperwork and dealing with all the additional hassle necessary for trading with the rest of the world!” What a fantastic advantage? No wonder we ordinary folk wonder what planet politicians live on.
However, in spite of all this business of ‘Britain shooting itself in the foot’, on a personal note, my wife and I did manage, at last, to sell our house. Unfortunately, other events overtook us and we were still unable to make our desired move last year, so we had to rent and now hope to complete our move later this year. So, we have had a topsy-turvy year which I hope explains why I have been and still am unable to publish The Ghost Moth
and The Bat
in paperback. I intend to get on with both as soon as we are settled and not ‘living out of suitcases’.Rest assured however, I am not sitting twiddling my thumbs and am getting on with what I can. Work on another Red Grouse Tale, The Frog, is continuing. It is going a little slowly at present as I have made a fairly serious start on a new, what I hope will be, trilogy; The Tunnel, The Road and The Bridge. These three stories will be drawing on my civil engineering past and so I hope the engineering element will be factually correct even if the actual stories themselves will be complete works of fiction! I am currently working on the opening chapters of the first two, as I am hoping that by writing both at the same time I will establish the same tone in each and hence a continuity between them. I might well get going on the third fairly soon, for exactly the same reason. When will they be finished? I have no idea, though I strongly suspect it will not be this year. I will try to finish The Frog, and so hopefully will be able to let you have that later this year.
That’s enough from me. I wish you all the best for 2021. Let’s hope it is a much better one than the one just gone.
With Best Wishes,
Leslie Garland
All my books are available in ebook form from Amazon and can be read for free on Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy!
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