Local man makes news locally...

[mark_west]

My appearance, in the Kettering Evening Telegraph, 30/9/09

Comments

[ajjones]

How cool! You rock star. The headline is interesting, in that they said 'novelist Mark' instead of 'novelist West'.

[mark_west]

Thanks!

With the headline, I've been racking my brains trying to figure out where they got havoc from...

[jongibbs]

Yay! One for the scrap book.

Congratulations :)

[mark_west]

Thanks Jon.

[ericgnome]

I like the DM T-Shirt! Well done, and the picture could be worse, but you should have given them the one with Sheep and Matthew! ;-)

[mark_west]

Cheers, David - I think you're right about the Matthew picture being better!

[kiminorkey]

I got the book on Friday. Thank you! I'll let you know when I read it. I paged through it a bit and found your notes. Thanks, Mark, that will add a lot to the whole experience.

And how exciting being in the newspaper! Wish I could read the article... Your family must be so proud!

[mark_west]

Thanks, Kim - that got there really quickly, didn't it? I'm glad you enjoyed the notes and I hope you enjoy the story, I look forward to hearing your comments.

Thanks, too, about the newspaper - yes, the folks are very pleased. Someone, who'd forgotten to put their specs on, stopped my Dad in the street and said "I didn't know you were a writer!".

If you click on the picture, it'll take you to my Flickr page and you can see the photo much larger there. Or try this URL - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3970999529_f7e090e659_o.jpg

[kiminorkey]

It did get here quickly! Amazing!

And thanks for the link, I was able to read the article there. :)

By the way, does the story have a happyish ending??

[mark_west]

Glad the link worked - I didn't think much to the article, myself, but that's probably just me.

As for the story - with a reserved yes, it does have a happyish ending. It's certainly not like the end of the novel!