SleepyJohn

MeI have just started this publishing venture, having moved to New Zealand a couple of years ago from the UK.  Before embarking on various ventures involving remote and dilapidated houses I had a reasonably successful spell as a writer of yachting books and magazine articles.

On emptying boxes here I found a couple of unpublished projects, and decided that technology had now progressed to the point where I could publish them myself.  So here they are.  I alone am publisher, editor, author, website designer, vehicle mender, log cutter, animal feeder, lawn mower, leak fixer and general factotum.

The Seven Gifts ~ that came to Earth

My first book is a fairy tale – The Seven  Gifts.

I wrote this many years ago and it was turned down by a number of publishers on the grounds that it was – “too unusual – we cannot categorise it and thus calculate the profit”.  Oh dear.

Finally it went into the back of the cupboard, despite the comments of one well-known London publisher (see below), and a number of acquaintances in the business.  Read it – see what you think. You might find these interviews with me give some helpful background

I have written twelve books and hundreds of magazine articles on sailing matters, having been a professional yacht skipper when I was younger.  See details on the Yachting Books page. See the HEADER menu for other pages and the FOOTER menu for categories of a few articles I have written on this site; or CLICK on a sidebar title.  CLICK my name to send me a message.

SleepyJohn


“One of those unique and wonderful manuscripts
that come one’s way all too rarely”
“A most unusual and beautiful story
that lingers in the mind long after one has read it”

~ London Publisher