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W I S P

by Bill Keeth

[Editor's Note: to know why this column has this title, I suggest you read Bill's first story!]

 

 

 

Bill Keeth lives in Middleton, Greater Manchester, in the UK, and he is already known to readers of this Newsletter*.

 

 

 

Bill has self-published two novels – Every Street in Manchester, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Portico Literary Prize alongside titles by two authors who are household names in the UK and beyond, and Manchester Kiss, a contemporaneous sequel. But his most recent self-published book is a non-fiction title – Write It Self-Publish It Sell It (pub. 2008), long-listed for the Portico Prize, which aims at supplying definitive answers to the many enquiries Bill has received about self-publishing subsequent to self-publishing his novels and selling on thousands of copies.

 

Writing a long-binned first novel back in 1977, Bill Keeth went on to become a founder member of a writers’ workshop at Manchester College of Building, where his debut novel was actually begun as a short story.

 

‘Much more recently,’ he says, ‘I got a yen to develop that short story into a full-length novel, whereupon it took me about eight months to do so, with Manchester Kiss following soon afterwards. And it was whilst unsuccessfully trawling the writers’ manuals with a view to placing Every Street in Manchester with a UK publisher or literary agent, I learned that best-selling Manchester writer Billy Hopkins (www.billysbooks.info) had originally been constrained to self-publish his debut novel.

 

‘So it was with my forerunner’s advice in the matter that I successfully self-published at long last, fulfilling my dream of foisting a work of fiction upon an unsuspecting public.

 

‘“Don’t pay it back, pay it on,” says Lee Child’s macho hero, Jim Reacher to a character he lends money to in Nothing to Lose, pub. 2008. (In my humble opinion, the best Jim Reacher book yet.)

 

‘And I will be happy as Larry if, in paying on via this monthly column of mine, I go some way towards helping even one aspiring writer amongst its readership to follow suit.’

 

If you need to contact Bill, you can do so via his website, http://www.novelnovella.com

 

 

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Story 1 - Books, But No Booker

Story 2 - Self-Publishing: a Worst Case Scenario

Story 2a - The Power of Positive Thoughts and Words: Aneeta's Blog, Sunday March 15 2009

Story 3 - Condensed Books: A DIY Approach

Story 4 - The Self-Published Author's Worst Enemy: Identified

Story 5 - The Self-Published Author's Worst Enemy: Dealt With

Story 6 - Thorn In My Side 

Story 7 - The Best President the United States Never Had

Story 8 - Getting Ready to "Grab Me An Armful of Greyhound"

Story 9 - Blake Out In A Cold Sweat

Story 10 - An Absolute Must-read for Anyone Who Writes with Serious Intent

Story 11 - Addendum to Last Month's Hemingway Piece

Story 12 - A Christmas Gift For Every Reader of 'How To Tell A Great Story'

Story 13 - 365 Books Plus 365 Book Review Equals an Infinitely Happy New Year For All Our Readers

Story 14 - My Funny, Filmic and Phonographic Valentines

Story 15 - Golden Oldies

 

Take note: The stories listed on this page are NOT free. If you would like to re-print them, please seek the permission of the author.