Posted by Mark Alders on Saturday, November 28, 2009
Under: news
Oh, my, I have been overwhelmed with the wonderful support of people who have enjoyed my books/stories. Nothing, and I mean, nothing warms my soul more than hearing how readers react to my works, and to be honest, they don't even have to be gushing praises. Feedback, good honest feedback, is worth gold. Again, thank you!
A lot of you have been enjoying The Pauper's Prize, saying how you love my take on the fairy tale. It has always been a goal of mine to write a fairy tale, seems I hit the right notes with that story. Would you believe the inspiration for that story was a song?
Yep. That song was Led Zepplin's "Gallow's Pole" in particular the line "What did you bring me my dear friend to keep me from the gallow's pole?" The story, at the beginning features Pavel walking past the gallow's pole, clutching onto the bread he had just acquired by selling his body to the local baker.
On another note, this blog is now RSS fed to my Amazon author's page and Goodreads author's page. Yes, I set up my Goodread's author's account yesterday :-)
I am Mark Alders, writer, intactivist, post office worker, and all round nice guy...except when someone steals my chocolate! I am a proud Australian, and as such use different spellings and have some weird phrases, too. Hey, perhaps that's why I write some damn weird shit!
I can't change who I am.
So when you read one of my books, enjoy the ride, but please don't say I can't spell. I spell how I damn well feel like it! LOL Naw seriously, I spell like an Aussie...do forgive me because we are a breed unto ourselves. Where else can a place have 11 registered public holidays and no one has any idea what they are for except to have a BBQ and down some beers!
If you do find a genuine error in my work, please let me know so I can speak with my editor...also, as an addition to that, offer chocolates as well. Lots of chocolates.
*hugs*
Mark