LOCAL LIBRARY SHOWS INTEREST IN FAREWELL CHAPELON

 Austin Macauley’s Marketing Department gave me a useful package of suggestions for seeking publicity with my new novel.  One suggestion was to make contact with my local library as a new author.  The library’s response was very positive, telling me they have well established reading and creative writing groups and asked me whether I could give talks to those groups.  I subsequently gave the library a signed, free copy of my novel and 2 of the posters that were in the box of goodies supplied by Austin Macauley.  The library staff were delighted.  They are now trying to arrange for the purchase of more copies of the book for their reading group and are anticipating a follow-up author talk.  The library has also asked me to engage with their planned activities during Libraries Week to be held on 3 to 9 October 2022.

Another of my free copies of Farewell Chapelon was sent to an old friend in Pakistan.  Beneath my signature I commented that we both know all about shipwrecks.  The friend concerned is their retired Chief of Naval Staff.  He was a Rear Admiral when we worked together, having just been assigned to the post of Operations Manager of Karachi Port Trust, when the laden oil tanker Tasman Spirit grounded within the port’s limits.  She started breaking up and releasing her cargo of 70,000 tonnes of crude oil into the surrounding waters.  When the Government of Pakistan and port trust asked for help from the United Nations, a colleague from the Norwegian Coastal Administration and I flew to Karachi at short notice and formed a small technical mission to provide assistance and advice.  Warm and lasting friendships resulted from that experience.  Meanwhile, my friend in Pakistan is having to wait his turn to read the book.  His wife grabbed it first!

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