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Phil Simpkin

Goodreads Author

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The United Kingdom

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Genre

Crime, Fiction, Historical Fiction

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History; Genealogy; Music; People; Places; Travel.

Member Since

March 2013

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I am a retired Police Officer, and for several years, I have been researching what my home town of Leicester, England, would have been like in early Victorian times, circa 1850.

So interesting have been my discoveries, that what was planned to be a 'one off' novel, about the town, has become a 'series'.

The first novel in the series, 'Jack ketch's Puppets' starts the line off in Leicester of 1850.

The second book in the series,'Death lurks in Cock Muck Hill', a novella, of 102 pages, was published on 10th June 2013.

Book three, 'Without Fear or Favour' was published in late 2016.

Book four 'A few silver threads' was published in June 2021.

I have also self published a collection of short folk tales, 'Leicestershire Myth & Legend - in verse', whic ...more

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Ebook underpricing dilemma

I am currently faced with the dilemma of 'what is the right price?' for my current 'The Borough Boys' series as Kindle ebooks.

For those who are subscribed to kindle unlimited, it is an easy matter to borrow / read for nothing.

For those buying as a Kindle, a competitive and fair price is a must, and as an author you always want to be fair and make the title as cheap as possible.

However, even with c

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Phil Simpkin’s books

Average rating: 4.6 · 57 ratings · 16 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Jack Ketch's Puppets (The Borough Boys #1) 4.58 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death lurks in Cock Muck Hill (The Borough Boys, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Without Fear or Favour... (The Borough Boys #3) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leicestershire Myth & Legend - in verse it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Few Silver Threads (The Borough Boys #4) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Even a Mouse really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leicestershire Myth and Legend - in verse 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Self publishing' is not as easy as it is portrayed! When you think you have finished your book, proof read, proof read again, and again, and again. Don't believe it is ready until you have a hard copy proofed!”
― Phil Simpkin

tags: editing, proofreading, self-publishing

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“On a summers night, I have sat on the balcony drinking Ouzo, watching the ghosts of Greek Heroes sailing past, listening to the rustle of their sail cloths and the gentle lapping of their oars...and lain alongside Pythagoras watching him study the myriad of triangles in the constellations twinkling above us.

Whether it was Crete, the heat, the Ouzo, or a combination, it is unequalled anywhere other than Santorini, in my humble opinion.”
― Phil Simpkin

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Phil’s Quotes

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works

tags: history, storytelling

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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: fiction, invention, life, reality, strangeness, truth

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“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
― Aurthur Conan Doyle

tags: imagination, life

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