OUT NOW
the new paperback from Ian M Pindar
"Hoofing It"
Available from Amazon in Paperback
and for Kindle
(click the link to read more about the book)
Here is Ian's story:
"It took three years to get from the initial contact with artist Scott Carruthers to the final
graphic designed cover of both books, something Scott pointed out when
it was finished – I literally (!) could not believe it!
It had taken
nearly sixteen years from the first tappings on a rudimentary 386
computer in Rusholme, Manchester (in the shadow of the kippax) Then the
computer fulled of memory; it crashed, burned and had a nervous
breakdown – the latter being me. ``Have you backed it up?’’ If I had £1
for everyone that asked me this at the time, I would have made £38! I
had backed it up, but only at the half way point - remember when I
started writing this I only had just got e-mail, we only had 3.5 inch
floppy discs (insert your own joke) and if you wanted to download
something, you needed to leave it, make your tea, eat your tea, wash-up
and then come back! – stop laughing youths! It actually sounds worse
than it was, because I had just written it, I could remember most of it,
especially the research mainly from Time Outs and Rough Guides.
Having
returned to the book much later I would say it is three times better
than it was; from the original first draft I cut six chapters at the
beginning and put in a much punchier start - ``Ok I stole the money,
there's no other way of looking at it; one minute I didn't have
twenty-eight grand, the next, abracadabra, I did.’’ – if you don’t get
your reader on the first page you have lost them! So if there is a word
of caution apart from the obvious backing everything up, it is… allow
yourself at least double the amount of time to finish every aspect of
your book, or if you’re anything like me… add a decade on for good
measure!!
Aim
for perfection in all aspects of your work, then when it falls short –
which invariably will, you have produced something great/good you can be
proud of.
Big Love," - Ian M Pindar
Purchase this fantastic book and let me know what you think :)
Scott.
All Artwork Copyright - Scott Carruthers 2012
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