Put the lock down period to some use by writing Empire - a novel on the life of memsahibs in India in the late 19th century. The style of writing is old; developments are few but characters' responses are covered in greater detail. Hackneyed plot of 3 friends travelling to India on a liner. Mixed facts and fiction. Enjoyed myself writing it.
Published it on Amazon KDP -Kindle direct publishing - as both an e-book and a paperback.
How to bring it before people? I have stopped short of running a promotion campaign on Amazon.
Thought I'd recommend it to Arlington Heights Memorial Library and British Library whose collection I access regularly.
AHML used a subterfuge: "We acquire only books of local members with an active library card." Their collection has all the established authors.
From my account of British library, I tried to put in a new purchase request. It did not get forwarded. So I sought a clarification. "Only UK authors." I was told.
The animosity baffled me. I was not trying to influence their purchase decision in any way.
So self-published books on KDP are not taken seriously. For all the democratization of publishing ushered in by Amazon, old prejudices die hard.
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