Beds, Blogs & New Tricks.
Saturday, October 18, 2008 @ 8:17 PM
Yesterday evening was a quick trip out to collect a bed from a house locally and deliver it to another local destination. However, the collection actually became a very interesting event due to the person we were collecting from. An English man, no names mentioned for now but I doubt he would mind to be honest, ex-military, now a writer who had been published a few times by a Spanish magazine as a columnist and was now continuing to write mainly as a hobby. I am sure he will not mind me saying that he is well over retirement age, seen it, been there, done it and got all the T-Shirts to prove it. He was very pleased about the response to his articles and was happy his work was made available to a wider audience so I asked him why not try to get a publisher for his works? The response was mainly negative due to age and health problems, it would just take too long to see it through. How about self-publishing? He is internet savvy, eBay etc to sell his works, why not give it a go? Again very valid arguments against the idea. Blogs? Ah.. now maybe we have something, never tried that, so now I am going to point him in the direction of Blogger and you never know maybe you can all share in his work. Rest assured if he does start to write I will be linking to it from here as before we left him last night he gave me a file of his essays - not very politically correct but exactly the kind of thing I like to read and although the subject matter is very serious there is an underlying hint of humour and it is very hard to put down once you start reading. One thing I did not think to mention was e-books, even better for him, all his work is already on a PC anyway!! I'll talk to him about that. There is one person I want to talk to again very soon, but now it's back to his essays and my porron of wine.