She Got It

On my last post, I relayed how ‘No Place Like Loam’ was never marketed as it was written as a back story for 'Franklin’s Spy'; and my surprise when I found it on Amazon. It turns out that one of the people who bought 'No Place Like Loam', is a middle school teacher and she commented on my Facebook page that she felt that the book could be used to help introduce middle school students to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This made me extremely happy as she clearly had gotten the underlying messages I was trying to convey in the book. I was so touched by this and the fact that this teacher requested her local library to carry the book; and recommended it to some students. Another beautiful surprise!

A Pleasant Surprise

Many years ago while pondering the writing of Franklin’s Spy, I decided that the character, Michael O'Brien, needed a ‘back story’ and I came up with No Place Like Loam.

In 2002 I had it published with iUniverse, and as I was in the process of moving back to Ireland from The U.S. and was busy settling back into life in Ireland, I never ended up doing anything to market the book, and quite frankly, forgot about it.

Recently, while perusing Amazon for updates on Franklin’s Spy, I was most surprised to see that No Place Like Loam was available for sale on their site and also it had been put into Kindle format. I had no idea how this came about. A call to iUniverse revealed that in 2009 they had converted the book free of charge and that they had tried notifying me, but all of my contact details were long out of date; my email address was an old one that belonged to my brother-in-law, my mailing address was that of a dear friend who has been deceased for eight years, and who knows what telephone number was on file. So all off these years later, I am happily surprised that No Place Like Loam has been selling, not quite off of the shelves, but selling still, and I'm actually due royalties!

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This is where I will post excerpts from my books; 'No Place Like Loam' and 'Franklin's Spy', share my thoughts and ideas about publishing, books, happenings in the literary world, and other interesting things that may pop into my head from time to time.
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