‘There’s no such thing as bad publicity’ is a saying that has been heard a few times, one would think that being a self-published author and all the work that it entails would be hard enough but to inadvertently find yourself on the ‘wrong side of the road’ can be difficult and upsetting! As he explains:
“Along the way we have been ridiculed and spurned. Our local council refused to give me advertising space. History was a cruel place, bad things happened, past experiences colour and shape our present. It wasn't all sweetness and light, isn't the art of a story teller, to point out what was wrong and then, hopefully see those injustices corrected? Our history is riddled with death and destruction, violence and crime. The town I base Stormouth on, now a quintessential part of England was once a foul, stinking cesspit of a place, where murder occurred and disease constantly killed off the inhabitants. Should we then forget that?
David T. Proctor