Just a little about my Blog page and its creation.
When my book THREE WISHES was very first published, it was actually found for sale on the internet by Glenn. I was working one night and was suddenly ordered to the office by the operator, Glenn. When I got there he congratulated me and showed me the book that was now 'for sale' on the computer. After a lot of stunned silence from me and congratulations from Glenn, he told me to immediately get the word out there.
For a couple of days I text and telephoned as many people as I could and Glenn did this also. Then he decided to start building a web page promoting my book and told me that this was not only to help me, but also because he enjoyed doing it as he is quite at ease in the computer world. When one night he was beavering away adding various things to the web page, a driver came into the office and seeing what Glenn was doing told him to start a Blog page. Later that night Glenn told me about this and at the time none of us really knew what a Blog page was for. He then looked further into it and found out how to get a page going. This was the start of 'Phil's Author Blog', and the page has grown in popularity and content ever since. In fact, the Taxi Tales where originally posts on the Blog until the decision was made, because of the huge viewing figures of them posts, to make a book, which is what we have done.
Glenn always tells me when we discuss ways of doing 'this' or 'that', that I am the 'author', and he is 'the computer guy'. Without the skills of Glenn I doubt if the web or blog pages would even exist so many thanks to him for that.
As well as these two pages, he also talked me into the world of 'social media' which was something that did not interest me at all. Since the publishing of the first book I have more than 22000 followers combined through a variety of 'social media' sites.
All this effort and achievement has become an enjoyable hobby and helped massively in the sales of my books and seems to have become an ongoing thing. I am happy to say that up to now, Glenn is enjoying all of his hard work!!!
P.s. Just in case you wanted to put a face to the name Glenn, that's his mug shot above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right everybody, it's Glenn here. Thought I'd add my two penneth worth while I've got the chance and the 'Author' has left MY computer for a moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always been interested in computers and especially the intricate side of building web sites and the like. Phil had already told me that he had written a book and no doubt told everybody within earshot! He then told me that the book was being published but told me that he hadn't been able to find it anywhere on the internet. Well, that's Phil for you! I decided to have a look and after a long and extremely tiring THIRTY SECONDS I found it, large as life for sale. Oh, and not only in 1 place but place after place spread all across the globe!!!!!!
Since then the building of webs and blogs has been to me an absolute pleasure and a rather relaxing hobby of mine. Oh, and yes, I suppose this helps Phil's quest for, what seems like (the way he describes it by the way) world domination!!! Right, hope you enjoy the Blog and Web pages and hope the variety of content on the blog interests and amuses you. Got to go, big gob is ....... sorry Phil's back! ( don't worry I can say and call him anything as we all know he won't be able to delete it!!!!!!!!!)
When my book THREE WISHES was very first published, it was actually found for sale on the internet by Glenn. I was working one night and was suddenly ordered to the office by the operator, Glenn. When I got there he congratulated me and showed me the book that was now 'for sale' on the computer. After a lot of stunned silence from me and congratulations from Glenn, he told me to immediately get the word out there.
For a couple of days I text and telephoned as many people as I could and Glenn did this also. Then he decided to start building a web page promoting my book and told me that this was not only to help me, but also because he enjoyed doing it as he is quite at ease in the computer world. When one night he was beavering away adding various things to the web page, a driver came into the office and seeing what Glenn was doing told him to start a Blog page. Later that night Glenn told me about this and at the time none of us really knew what a Blog page was for. He then looked further into it and found out how to get a page going. This was the start of 'Phil's Author Blog', and the page has grown in popularity and content ever since. In fact, the Taxi Tales where originally posts on the Blog until the decision was made, because of the huge viewing figures of them posts, to make a book, which is what we have done.
Glenn always tells me when we discuss ways of doing 'this' or 'that', that I am the 'author', and he is 'the computer guy'. Without the skills of Glenn I doubt if the web or blog pages would even exist so many thanks to him for that.
As well as these two pages, he also talked me into the world of 'social media' which was something that did not interest me at all. Since the publishing of the first book I have more than 22000 followers combined through a variety of 'social media' sites.
All this effort and achievement has become an enjoyable hobby and helped massively in the sales of my books and seems to have become an ongoing thing. I am happy to say that up to now, Glenn is enjoying all of his hard work!!!
P.s. Just in case you wanted to put a face to the name Glenn, that's his mug shot above!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right everybody, it's Glenn here. Thought I'd add my two penneth worth while I've got the chance and the 'Author' has left MY computer for a moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always been interested in computers and especially the intricate side of building web sites and the like. Phil had already told me that he had written a book and no doubt told everybody within earshot! He then told me that the book was being published but told me that he hadn't been able to find it anywhere on the internet. Well, that's Phil for you! I decided to have a look and after a long and extremely tiring THIRTY SECONDS I found it, large as life for sale. Oh, and not only in 1 place but place after place spread all across the globe!!!!!!
Since then the building of webs and blogs has been to me an absolute pleasure and a rather relaxing hobby of mine. Oh, and yes, I suppose this helps Phil's quest for, what seems like (the way he describes it by the way) world domination!!! Right, hope you enjoy the Blog and Web pages and hope the variety of content on the blog interests and amuses you. Got to go, big gob is ....... sorry Phil's back! ( don't worry I can say and call him anything as we all know he won't be able to delete it!!!!!!!!!)