tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38522439023359268592024-10-07T05:50:14.483+01:00Books and LifeMy name is Gary Walker, and this is my blog. I'm also the webmaster at www.look4books.co.uk the free promotion site for Independently published authors. My Blog is dedicated to everything that matters, and some things that don't. If you are going to steal stuff that I post on here, would you be so kind as to link your stolen goods back to my blog. Thanks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-91025946462121052742015-09-16T16:36:00.001+01:002015-09-16T16:36:15.326+01:00My Interview with Vivien Ella Walden
Welcome Vivien. Your amazing memoir "Eating From The Cherry Tree" is getting five star reviews so I would like to thank you very much indeed for agreeing to be interviewed by me.
(Gary) Can you
describe your book in one sentence?
(Vivien) That would
be impossible, two years of writing my life story to date? Not in my life time!
Reliving the truth proved harder than I had thought the
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-37607565845752151462015-08-24T11:45:00.000+01:002015-08-24T11:48:40.142+01:00Mrs. Beelbrow's Lions by Stacy Aumonier
Mrs. Beelbrow's Lions by Stacy Aumonier. A short story published in John O'London's Weekly in 1922. Scanned from my own collection of these wonderful old literary magazines.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-74265951596968210512015-08-19T12:01:00.001+01:002015-08-19T12:01:53.588+01:00More Book Promotion PostersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-47705748778825809262015-08-19T11:58:00.001+01:002015-08-19T11:58:14.435+01:00Herringfleet Mill Through the YearAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-79677351486654322122015-04-21T09:07:00.000+01:002015-04-21T09:07:23.303+01:00The Look 4 Books Medley of Short Stories
This year some of the wonderful authors featured at Look 4 Books www.look4books.co.uk have decided to put together a book of short stories, all the proceeds from this book will be going to the Alzheimer's Society, and the Autistic Society. This book will be available to buy from the Look 4 Books website, and Amazon from early May, 2015.
To find out more information about each of the authorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-75776378850872469662015-03-29T21:41:00.001+01:002015-03-30T20:57:34.453+01:00The Manly Man
The year was 1757 or thereabouts. I was dressed in a shabby waistcoat and britches, with very dirty boots. Standing in a muddy field I was digging like I loved mud, but what I was really doing was searching for a poor lost kitten that had sunk into the mud. As I was digging a fair maiden approached all white heaving bosoms and crinoline. She stared at me in wanton disgust. I said, "fair maiden Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-33506045347287603362015-03-17T10:16:00.002+00:002015-04-17T10:29:25.108+01:00Book Promotion Using Animation
Short animated Gifs designed by me to help promote the authors featured at Look 4 Books Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in this service. I will be adding more animations in here as and when I create them. If you click on any of the animations you will go directly to the authors selling page. Thanks.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-9781133407780903172014-12-03T19:52:00.001+00:002014-12-03T19:52:59.445+00:00NHS Devon
Before you carrying on reading what I have written here I should acknowledge that I'm not a full set of bricks.
After reading today that NHS Devon have decided not to undertake any non-lifesaving operations on smokers or the obese I would like to recommend that all smokers and fat people in Devon immediately stop paying their National Insurance Contribution. That will mean NHS Devon can't treatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-52104990573462051272014-10-30T08:36:00.001+00:002014-10-30T08:36:19.255+00:00One Free Book Poster
Today I have decided to design a free book marketing poster for one lucky independently published author. So if you would like to be that Indie Author let me know why you would like me to design a poster for you in the Comment box below. The best comment wins.
You can view some of the posters I have already designed here.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-33615594357405892042014-04-25T14:19:00.001+01:002014-04-25T14:21:35.567+01:00Follow These Wonderful Authors
All these wonderful authors have their books featured at Look 4 Books If you love reading and want to keep up with all the latest news from these writers you should follow them on Twitter, so I have compiled a list of their Twitter links. All you have to do is click on the highlighted links and then follow the author of your choice.
Jordan Silver, https://twitter.com/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-18824870037707398442014-04-19T20:50:00.000+01:002014-04-19T20:50:06.727+01:00An Angry Michael Moorcock
This is a letter from Michael Moorcock published in the June, 1977, issue of Books and Bookmen.
I might take poor old Duncan Fallowell's criticism of myself and other writers more seriously if there was ever any evidence he had read (or understood) the books he reviews. A few weeks ago I had final confirmation of my suspicions when I came across several of my own books for sale in a local shop Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-77869765122383284962014-04-14T22:00:00.000+01:002014-04-14T22:00:25.111+01:00WORLD Promotional Tour
This is a rough draft of my plan for Look 4 Books www.look4books.co.uk world domination in the field of Indie Author promotion.
Firstly it would mean me travelling around the globe meeting the authors featured on the site. As I'm broke, each author would have to put me up in their home for the duration of my stay, and pay for my flight. They would also have to get a loud speaker system attached Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-73416676534603635762014-04-14T17:07:00.000+01:002014-04-14T17:07:29.226+01:00Book Poster Slideshow
A slideshow showing just a few of the hundreds of promotional book posters I have created for the wonderful authors featured at Look 4 Books www.look4books.co.uk
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-38394728419620374952014-02-17T11:37:00.000+00:002014-02-19T16:18:08.365+00:00Book Cover Creation
After spending the last 6 months or so creating Posters for the authors featured at my website Look 4 Books I have decided to offer a book cover design service. If you would like me to create a cover for a new book you are publishing, or just want a more eye catching cover for a book you have already published please don't hesitate to contact me. You can do this either via my Twitter Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-11967966184908566702013-11-28T16:04:00.001+00:002013-11-28T16:04:14.812+00:00Norwich Cathedral Stained Glass Window
Some photographs I took of the magnificent stained glass window at Norwich Cathedral.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-40155719548687408872013-11-11T14:08:00.001+00:002015-03-16T10:36:31.704+00:00Books on Billboards
I thought the authors featured at Look 4 Books would like to see how their book covers would look on a billboard. Here are a few I have done so far. If you would like me to create a tailored poster incorporating your book cover just send me a Direct Message on Twitter , or email me at look4books@tiscali.co.uk. You can also phone me on 07939 798574. You can then obviously use it for any Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-16600828088343964572013-11-04T09:08:00.001+00:002013-11-13T06:33:03.201+00:00One Hundred Words or Less
This weeks literary competition.
You must write a story based around my photograph in no more than one hundred words. The winning author will have their story featured at Look 4 Books for one week, along with any links to either their Books for Sale, Blog, Website, Twitter profile, or Facebook page. So what are you waiting for? Have fun.
Closing date for entries is 10.11.13.
Post your stories Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-91698250967594127792013-10-25T19:36:00.000+01:002013-11-03T23:13:41.579+00:00Limerick Competition
Competition time. I'm looking for the funniest
limerick on the subject of "Getting Old." The winner will be chosen by
me (power crazy fool) and if you happen to be an independently published
author you will have your book promoted at www.look4books.co.uk for one whole week at the top of the homepage, and I will give you your own page on the site forever. So what are you waiting for? Post yourAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-53787460629270561042013-10-08T17:22:00.001+01:002013-10-08T17:22:24.571+01:00The Best Indie AuthorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-5721973975286667732013-10-05T19:55:00.001+01:002013-10-06T16:55:35.711+01:00Humphrey Hair Do's
Short poem about a hairdressers
in Lowestoft.
Humphrey Hair Do's Ladies Stylist
For women of a certain age.
One cut one colour
That's short and blue,
Less Lady Gaga,
More Peggy Sue.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0Lowestoft, Lowestoft52.481136 1.753449tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-12198659620092245942013-10-05T16:23:00.001+01:002013-10-06T17:31:58.526+01:00My Seaside Retreat
A glint of flame red illuminates the chimney tops,
Sunrise in my seaside retreat.
Gulls in aerial combat screech a fanfare for the new day.
The hopeless and the lost yawn long in Lowestoft.
Pebbles glisten on the Blue Flag beach,
The aged sit silently with their flasks of tea.Pubescent mothers promenade their babies by the sea,
Young men with chins on chest hide inside their hoods.Old men Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-21003993535977147512013-10-03T10:57:00.003+01:002013-10-03T10:57:37.252+01:00Genuine Tweets From The Residents of Lowestoft
Whenever I'm feeling slightly inadequate I like to read what the fine people from the most easterly town in the UK have been posting on Twitter.
lowestofts finest
@lowestoftfinest
17h
"@eleenawilby: someone give me a lift to lowestoft later for a fiver plssss x"a fiver would buy the place!
chels
@miles0fsilence
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-73176526591406798252013-10-01T19:59:00.002+01:002014-01-24T16:00:51.601+00:00Ode to Danny Dyer
The professional cockney,
A real life mockney.
Danny the geezer,
A bacardi breezer.
A man amongst men,
But not Dirty Den.
Mr. Danny Dyer,
The Essex Squire.
Where has he been?
Inside his glass chin.
A man amongst men?
More Barbie than Ken.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-632428456375822072013-09-30T13:39:00.003+01:002013-09-30T13:39:56.307+01:00Lowestoft Tweets
I have decided to keep a record on here of some of the more highbrow tweets that the residents of the most easterly town in the UK post on Twitter.
Lowestoft the town that time forgot.
Sean Greentree
@SeanGreentree
28 Sep
I'm at Lowestoft Cruising Club (Lowestoft, Suffolk) http://4sq.com/15AWrGz
james is a penis
@Anais_Ribery
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852243902335926859.post-17310662926484707872013-09-29T21:02:00.001+01:002013-09-29T21:12:37.614+01:00Fancy This?
I am the webmaster at www.look4books.co.uk the free promotion site for Independently Published Authors. I'm also someone who has to work 50 hours a week at his day job. I have come to the conclusion that I can't do both without one or the other suffering. So with regret, but also with some excitement I have decided that "Look 4 Books" needs more than just me running it. So if you love literatureAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385439829053348629noreply@blogger.com0