show 3rd Feb 2011

Todays show we had Corinna Christopher and Gordon Bilsborough.
One of the books being reviewed by Corinna carries a health warning from other reviewers "the story is sometimes explicit, violent, savage, brutal and disquieting"

Gordon has written three books which he has published on 'Amazon Kindle'. They are 'Conflict of Destinies', Yes Councillor' and 'Ultimate Solution'. Quote from Gordon:
'The great advantage of Kindle electronic books is that one can download about the first 10% of a book free of charge before deciding whether or not to buy it. The books can be downloaded to a computer as well as the Kindle electronic book. The Kindle software for doing this can be downloaded free from Amazon. Another advantage of Amazon electronic books is that authors receive a 70% royalty instead of 10% usually paid out by hard copy publishers, although these publishers do more advertising than the Amazon electronic books'.

Gordons first book is set around the Lancashire Cotton Industry in the late 1800's and his knowledge comes from his family having been in this industry. He says he gets his best ideas from real life. You may recognise the Victorian attired chap on the cover of his book as it is the author himself. I asked him about the designs for the advertising of his books - these are done by his partner Jane Hurd.
Gordon started writing when he was in College and later had a couple of short stories published.
Gordon has another full length political thriller: “Wotan’s Children” underway'.