“Good things take time,” says the old TV ad – but I’m unsure whether it applies to books as much as cheese or wine.
Rumours from the Pit has been (self-)published by Xlibris.com.
For me, it’s the end of a saga which began nearly 25 years ago. Here’s how.
I’d landed – again – back in my hometown Whangarei. After licking my wounds for a while, I began to look around for something productive to do.
Meantime, my old friend Carl Wyant was talking ( via letter ) about putting together a collection of his newspaper columns for publication.
Around that time, I got my first PC, having used them since the early 1990s in two previous jobs as Joe The Reporter.
And for want of anything better to do, Carl or I – I can’t remember which – nominated me to transcribe his best columns to digital format.
There followed three months or so of slugging away on the PC, in between a storm of letters. These were typed and posted, just like the 1970s. I use the word storm because a fair few of them bordered on … irascible.