Reviews Coming in Thick and Fast.

Just a brief post on the reviews coming in for Children of the Resolution.

As I have mentioned before, opting to make the jump and self publish Children of the Resolution, I was a little wary – wondering if, perhaps, it was more of a risk than I should have been taking. Thus far, however, customer reviews on Amazon (all five-star), Goodreads and elsewhere have left me feeling well and truly vindicated. My gut feeling was that I was, in a way, obliged to put this very personal and, I feel, important piece out there. And I’m now 100% convinced that it was the right decision.

Here’s a snippet from a review from the excellent New Books Magazine website. Click on the text to read the full review.

Children Of The Resolution is a novel unlike others that I’ve read in that it makes you question when, if ever, this country’s attitude to the disabled came out of the Dark Ages.

To read your free sample of Children of the Resolution, please click here.

To buy from the UK, click here – and American customers can buy here. (Also available on Kindle. UK. US.)

© 2011 Gary William Murning

Hot off the Press – Children of the Resolution.

Early this afternoon I received the first copy of Children of the Resolution for approval. I did have a few doubts before receiving it, as I’m sure you’ll understand, regarding the quality of the end product but, blessedly, I really don’t think I could have been happier. As it’s turned out, it’s as professionally bound and printed as any other quality paperback. The typesetting is perfect and the large format 6″ x 9″ paperback, with its glossy cover, really does, I think, justify the slightly higher price.

Below is a photograph of the book itself beside a copy of If I Never, just so you can get an idea of the size difference.

The book has now been approved and is currently being submitted for distribution – which means it should be listed on major bibliographic databases and available on online retailers worldwide (Amazon, Barnes & Noble etc) within 6 to 8 weeks. If, however, you don’t feel you can wait that long, it can now be bought directly (I believe) here. Please bear in mind, though, the retail price does not include p&p; unlike Amazon, I don’t think there’s a free postage option available (though I may be mistaken – please let me know if I am).

Given my do-it-yourself approach with this particular project, I do have little in the way of marketing/promotional support. So if you read the samples/the book and enjoy, please don’t forget to recommend it to others.

Thanks in advance and happy reading!

To read your sample chapters, please click here. And if you enjoy, by all means feel free to share them.

© 2010 Gary William Murning

Children of the Resolution – Final Cover.

Just a quick post to share with you the full, final cover for Children of the Resolution. My first attempt at this kind of thing so really quite pleased with the end result!

To read your sample chapters, please click here. And if you enjoy, by all means feel free to share them.

© 2010 Gary William Murning

Children of the Resolution – Preview.

Today – by way of a taster – I’d like to share with you the prologue and first two chapters of Children of the Resolution, my first foray into the world of self-publication.

As previously mentioned, the principle reason for my choosing to self-publish this piece is that my existing publisher, Legend Press, does not feel that it fits with If I Never. This is something I can understand, though I do believe that, whilst rather different to If I Never, it is a piece of work many of my existing readers would appreciate.

Very much inspired by my own experience of the integration of disabled children into mainstream education in the 1970s/1980s, Children of the Resolution is nonetheless a work of fiction. I have very deliberately avoided overdramatising, however; whilst I could not write it as straight autobiography, neither could I create a false narrative – that would have felt too much like a betrayal.

Intended as the first in a series of books focusing on the life of Carl Grantham, it explores the educational climate of the time, focusing on the almost revolutionary zeal that, ultimately, faded away. More than that, however, it is a story of friendship – of loss and hope in a world where there should always be further potential adventures in store.

To read your sample chapters, please click here. And if you enjoy, by all means feel free to share them.

© 2010 Gary William Murning