Liam Leddy's Blog

At this time of year writers are all trying very hard to sell books and I am no different so all I am going to do here is thank all my Amazon- especially Kindle- readers for their wonderful support over past Christmases and wish them all the very best for this one!
My Lassiter Glasgow crime fiction series of novels and all my short story collections make wonderful and inexpensive presents for those who are still wondering what to get for Uncle Wullie, Auntie Isa, or anyone else this Christmas!

Here`s a novel-pun definitely intended -idea. My website is www.liamleddy.com. All my contact details are there. E-mail and landline no. Other details on request. Writers need more readers and avid readers want more books. My idea couldn`t be simpler. Let`s talk to each other!

"Promote Your Book" one of my Facebook groups just named me author of the week. I don`t think I`ve been anything of the week at any time in my life so far.
Any past suggestions would be far too rude to put in writing!

A quick blog just to advise I have again renewed my membership with Alli. My long term memory is pretty fair which allows me to remember crucial details needed for writing my late 60`s Glasgow crime fiction novels and short story collections.
Short term memory? Don`t ask. I write to do lists and then forget where I put them or even that I`ve written them in the first place
I had let my membership lapse for Alli. Big mistake. Amongst the many Facebook groups re-kindled-pun fully intended- Is the Goodreads Society.
Hope to catch up with many of you there

Use your Facebook pages to promote your books? For many years now I have been doing just that, Some glitch or other 3 months ago whilst actually on Facebook caused Facebook to ask me to verify something or other. Fair do`s. Lots of very odd people about as Facebook well know. They let them say almost anything really dangerous and are constantly being reprimanded for doing so. Anyhow suddenly I`m asked for my passport, driving licence and all sorts of other things that are none of their business in the first place. Meanwhile they keep E-mailing me about new friend requests they won`t allow me to see-obviously I cannot contact my current ones either. Here`s my problem I don`t have a current passport. Don`t go anywhere now do ? I gave up my driving licence because of an eye problem. Therefore according to Facebook I don`t really exist do I?
Ever tried contacting Facebook. You can`t phone them or E-mail them but they can contact you constantly about all this new interest in your life and work and date of birth, hair colour, shoe size, grocery list, colour of pyjamas or anything else they want to know Forget it Facebook. I do have a life and I refuse to spend any more time trying to contact you,

I have never made any apology for writing my Glasgow based crime fiction novels the way I do because I am following the best advice any writer can ever get. "Write what you know" I choose to write in the language of the Glasgow streets for two very good reasons. Number one is authenticity. You must have realism in your crime fiction writing. In other words the reader must be able to identify with the manner in which any of my various and very different characters express themselves. So yes my immediate target audience would be Glasgow people. Specifically Glasgow people of a certain age to identify with Glasgow in the late 1960`s early 1970`s You`re limiting your audience many people have told me. Rubbish. Firstly many many people identify with Glasgow dialogue for many reasons. The whole of Scotland for a start. The many visitors to the city who visit the city and love the warmth and generosity of the welcome they receive from Glaswegians. Then there is the huge diaspara of Scottish- particularly Glaswegian people the world over. Who doesn`t know someone from Glasgow or Scotland in general? Who doesn`t have Scottish grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, doctors , lawyers just about every profession the world over who might very well enjoy hearing the old mother tongue again.
Then I have the other perhaps more important reason. Glasgow street dialogue is a little language all on it`s own which must be preserved for posterity
Warm, generous, mockingly , side splittingly funny and on many occasions suitably profane. Only Glaswegians know how to insult you in a manner which will cause no offense whatsoever.
Check me out. Just Google my name Liam Leddy. Up will come right at the very top "Books, Biography, Blogs" That will take you straight to my Amazon author page where you will immediately see all my novels Body Language, Bad Form and Body Art the Lassiter series. Writing Lassiter 4 at present. Also my short story collections-10 in all- eg. Scottish Tales, Ticket Tales, Cautionary Tales, Slinger Aiding & Abetting and so on.

Many people in the world are discriminated against and that is one sad fact of life. We must all do our utmost to fight that in any shape or form whether it be race, colour, religion, physical or mental handicap, gender whatever.
I do not thankfully find myself unduly discriminated against. However sometimes I feel that in the world of available funding for authors in particular I have come across certain bodies - no names supplied or I would be accused of having a personal axe to grind- who refuse to consider my applications just because I have no particular axe to grind in the first place. Other than lack of literary funding!

Hi there
Must let all existing and prospective new readers about my 50% across the board price cuts on both Amazon Kindle and Smashwords Premium Catalog copies of my books.
Exercise a little more caution please on Kindle. I have already made the price cuts from my end. However Kindle can sometimes take up to 48hrs to change and re-publish books so please hold off to make sure you get the massively reduced copies. Let`s all stay safe till such time as we can actually be much more positive-seems to be the wrong term with all the positive/negative having been turned upside down at present doesn`t it? I know you all know what I really mean. Enjoy.

For those readers familiar with Authorsden I just added my books to their signed authors bookstore.
This mean readers can now purchase my novels and short story collections directly from Authorsden

I fully understand the problems the travel industry and the tourist economy in general are experiencing at present the world over. It really must be catastrophic for some of the smaller concerns.
I cannot see the logic however in advising people to travel abroad for a holiday at present. We are still very much in the midst of a deadly global pandemic with spikes liable still to appear anywhere in the world at any time.
I must confess that I do not have a solution. However I cannot see how anyone could really have a restful, peaceful and enjoyable vacation in the midst of all this confusion.