Nick Wall's Blog
January 20, 2019
Travel guide
This week two online travel magazines have published extracts from my books.
In The Culture-ist I write about the legacy of a hydrogen bomb, and the music of the Marshall Islands: https://www.thecultureist.com/2019/01....
And my piece for Epicure & Culture is all about the magical music of Gambian griots, and how they've been working to keep their tradition alive: https://epicureandculture.com/gambian... .
As a non-fiction author writing for the general public rather than for academia, it's so encouraging to find a natural fit like this for my writing. I've got no shortage of good material to use, so hopefully this will be something that I can do again.
Currently I'm doing a promotion for one of my ebooks. Volume 1 (Europe) is on sale at $0.99 / 99p (links below) through to February 12th. The book is packed with little gems like this -
"Santorini appears on the map as another dot in the Aegean Sea south of Athens and north of Crete, part of the Cyclades islands. One of the island's few landmarks, jutting out from the top of a hill, is La Ponta, a 13th-century stone tower which was once part of the Castle of Akrotiri: a fortified settlement built to keep out marauding pirates. For a five year period this tower was to become host to an attraction which received a startling number of rave reviews from its 40,000 visitors every year: a bagpipe exhibition and workshop.
Yiannis Pantazis had moved to Santorini in 2007 with his Greek-American wife, Argy Kakissis. For a couple of years he'd been researching the playing and the construction of the strange-looking Greek bagpipe, the tsabouna. On Santorini most locals told him that they had little knowledge of the instrument, but he persevered trying to track down old recordings. Then one day Argy rescued a chicken that had been trapped in a fence..."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/arou...
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/arou...
In The Culture-ist I write about the legacy of a hydrogen bomb, and the music of the Marshall Islands: https://www.thecultureist.com/2019/01....
And my piece for Epicure & Culture is all about the magical music of Gambian griots, and how they've been working to keep their tradition alive: https://epicureandculture.com/gambian... .
As a non-fiction author writing for the general public rather than for academia, it's so encouraging to find a natural fit like this for my writing. I've got no shortage of good material to use, so hopefully this will be something that I can do again.
Currently I'm doing a promotion for one of my ebooks. Volume 1 (Europe) is on sale at $0.99 / 99p (links below) through to February 12th. The book is packed with little gems like this -
"Santorini appears on the map as another dot in the Aegean Sea south of Athens and north of Crete, part of the Cyclades islands. One of the island's few landmarks, jutting out from the top of a hill, is La Ponta, a 13th-century stone tower which was once part of the Castle of Akrotiri: a fortified settlement built to keep out marauding pirates. For a five year period this tower was to become host to an attraction which received a startling number of rave reviews from its 40,000 visitors every year: a bagpipe exhibition and workshop.
Yiannis Pantazis had moved to Santorini in 2007 with his Greek-American wife, Argy Kakissis. For a couple of years he'd been researching the playing and the construction of the strange-looking Greek bagpipe, the tsabouna. On Santorini most locals told him that they had little knowledge of the instrument, but he persevered trying to track down old recordings. Then one day Argy rescued a chicken that had been trapped in a fence..."
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/arou...
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/arou...
January 6, 2019
Ebook promotion
Volume 1 (Europe) will be available to download on all retail sites for 4 weeks from Jan 15th 2019 at the discount price of £0.99 ($0.99 US).
Get in quick -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Any reviews will be much appreciated !
Get in quick -
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Any reviews will be much appreciated !
November 22, 2018
Fatea Magazine review
Thanks to Fatea Magazine for endorsing Around the World in 575 Songs :
"WOW! If you are interested in traditional music from around the world, then this is the perfect present for you (or your loved ones). Running to over 1600 pages, in four volumes, it will help you while away your winter, while discovering music from parts of the world you may never have considered before. Not only can you discover new songs from countries you had forgotten even existed, you can listen to them all on the exceptionally easy-to-manage website!..."
http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazi...
Around the World in 575 Songs : Traditional music from all the world's countries Volume 1
"WOW! If you are interested in traditional music from around the world, then this is the perfect present for you (or your loved ones). Running to over 1600 pages, in four volumes, it will help you while away your winter, while discovering music from parts of the world you may never have considered before. Not only can you discover new songs from countries you had forgotten even existed, you can listen to them all on the exceptionally easy-to-manage website!..."
http://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazi...
Around the World in 575 Songs : Traditional music from all the world's countries Volume 1
