My First Proper Blog

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the first of what I hope will be one of many posts I aim to create in order to accompany the publication of my thinly-veiled biography “The Maynards of Margate”. This is my very first attempt at trying to write, create and post a blog so bear with me whilst I try to master the art of modern-day online publishing and the intricacies of social media promotion.

All books have a starting point and “The Maynards of Margate” began back in 2016 when, whilst boring my three grown-up children with a story from my childhood for the umpteenth time, my eldest daughter rolled her eyes and said ‘Oh for God’s sake, get the violins out’. And that’s how it all began. I wrote a draft version under that title purely for family and acquaintances and then, with the encouragement of friend and mentor Mark Stay, successful novelist and scriptwriter extraordinaire and all-round good guy to boot, I expanded the original version into a longer book, adding a few more chapters along the way. A lot of the names have been changed to avoid litigation but essentially this is the story of my childhood as I remember it.

If you like my memoir then please recommend it to all your friends. If you don’t then keep it to yourself. After all, I’m trying to sell some books here.

PS. I’ll be posting a new blog each week based on each chapter. Hope you enjoy them.