Chilling Encounter by Sam Grant. Action, mystery novel. Soft and hard cover edition + Amazon Kindle
“Nyama”
A seven ton Bermudian yacht built in Mevagisey, Cornwall. An open sail boat, later converted into a cabined crusier, with auxilary engine and a fifty foot mast.
Development of writing, for Sam Grant, Author.
Poems were chosen to be published in varied editors anthologies before first novel Atlantic reached final manuscript publication in 2015.
Poetry composition and submission, to competion entry continues into 2021.
The blog was started to achieve a platform to entertain readers with poems, stories and blog commentary about author’s writing ventures. Pre- lock down these included market events, to advertise and talk about author’s novels, but also, associated with passing visitors about their own writing. This applied, on occasion, to talks, with wives, sons, and daughters, whose own husbands, fathers, saw sea service.
Maritime novel, sea poems and sea short stories are part of author identitiy.
Understandably, with ten years of early sea service, from age of fourteen, shore based work life presence, has subsequently had a strong influence. This has led to, author selecting, varied genres, for his novel writing.
Recognition has been given to poems and short stories…
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Membership of Alliance of Independent Authors.
Sam Grant, recently gave an interview for “Writers on Frome FM,” and has since joined the Membership of Alliance of Independent Authors. Self-published authors can struggle to get recognition when without the push given for main stream published authors. Reviews in 2018 assisted visibility for action, mystery novels -Atlantic Hijack and River Escape. Hope for continued reviews in the New Year of 2019.
A very Happy and prosperous New Year to all Sam Grant readers and followers. Your interest for his writing, novels, poems and short stories is greatly appreciated.
Is it time for that deep- sea experience-main stream publisher?
Change is ever there in the minutes, hours and days. Attempts at updates have been made by author Sam Grant, who extends best wishes and many thanks to all readers of his novels, short stories and poetry-“Mists of Time,” is Sam grant’s latest book with both poems and short stories @ url amazon.com/author/grantsam
In the beginning- no this isn’t a biblical re-write! But in the beginning of getting toward publication I submitted- a not very polished final manuscript. On the telephone the young woman-when you’re seventy plus -pretty well all women speaking to you on the telephone sound young! said, that the editors liked my novel and that they would like to publish it. After this startling revelation I probably said something inane like -‘oh really, would you? But it was a definite-yes!
There had been several submissions, to agents. You don’t usually get a highly critical reply on rejection. It can be along the lines of-‘I do really see potential for your novel-but it’s not a genre type that I’m currently promoting to publishers. Or ‘We’re not taking new manuscripts at present but do re-apply again in- six months, a year, two years time,’ etc…
There was a website for the publisher…
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