Guest Post:

A guest post by R.B.N. Bookmark, author of A Minger's Tale: Beginnings

Why?? 

There are many reasons, all of them far too numerous too recount as why one would write a book. 

It is an insane idea that rattles around in ones head like marbles trapped in a tin can. The more one ponders on this ludicrous idea the louder the rattle in your head. 

I have likened the birth of A Minger`s Tale to an unwanted pregnancy. It was never planned nor wanted. As for the reasons how it came about, well I´d give anything to turn the clock back and

change the events that led up to it. 

The reasons for my first (and what some hope will be my last forray into selfpublishing) are clearly stated in the opening chapter of my book – well at least that was my intention…..and yet. 

Things are never as clear cut in life as one would wish, and needless to say neither is writing a book. You see as the book progressed so did the initial reasons I had for writing it, it became something far more than just a family tale in a corner of England far remote from the bright lights of London. 

A campus newspaper by the name of Humanity Hallows wrote and published a review of Minger`s Tale. It is no understatement I was shocked almost into tears when I read it. Tears of joy, that is because at last someone had read between the lines, and understood where the book was coming from. It had created an affinity between writer and the reader, which is something any writer good or bad must strive to achieve. 

“The narrator and his family are elevated to represent an entire generation of people, whose individual plights and stories rarely receive the attention they ought to. “ excerpt from
Humanity Hallows book review of A Minger`s Tale – Beginnings

R.B.N. Bookmark

I tried to make the main character Ribban as ordinary as possible, show the vulnerability and the feeling of being an outsider in society. The story is almost sixty years old and yet, the process of growing up never changes, he is a child of his times as we are today. 

Now I know some people have commented on why I wrote a collection of stories without any storyline, and it is a valid comment which I shall endeavour to answer. 

Ribban Bookmark is a drifter, he meanders through the perforations of life`s tapestry like wind through airtex underwear. He lands where he falls, picks himself up and does the same thing all over again. His story is devoid of a common denominator; his storyline is day to day and a life he lives by the hour. 

Ribban and I are very much alike. We share the same hopes and fears, both of us at times have felt the frustration akin to a dog desperately searching for a lamp post in a blackout. Consequently both of us know what it feels like to end up with wet feet. 


So now 12 months after the books release how do I feel and what is my next move? I have to admit
being called a writer metaphorically speaking fits me like a pair of trousers twice my size. I find myself forever pulling them up but from time to time a bad review will leave them hanging around my ankles. 

Book number two, Half Way to Manchuria was scheduled for 2017 but I´m afraid the book is on hold at the moment – whether or not it ever sees the light of day is at this point in time very uncertain. 

So tell me after reading my story – would you write a book? 

I often ask myself the same question and no matter what I may think, no matter the world of selfpublishing has to throw in my direction, my answer is invariably the same. 

“YES”

A Minger's Tale: Beginnings
by R.B.N. Bookmark
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Book Dude would like to thank Virtual Author Book Tours and Teddy Rose ( @teddyrose1 ) for the opportunity to participate in the book tour for A Minger's Tale: Beginnings by R.B.N. Bookmark.