My Books ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was more than a little surprised to realise I've now self-published twenty-one books. Thirteen are photo-books, four form a children's self-illustrated space-adventure series, one is a stand-alone story for kids and three are adult fiction. Well, I didn't know I had it in me! 

I've loved the creative process that's brought each of these publications to life. I've probably been able to produce each of the photo-books in a matter of months, but the written work has taken years. The promotion of them all is a different matter though. I have spent so much time searching for literary agents and interested photographic parties to take up my work, but all to no avail. It's bloody hard work to get noticed out there. Still, that's not going to stop the fun I'm having while I create them. I have three others in the pipeline!!

Ps: The titles are :-

Photo-Books

Book One. Photography? There's no money in that, son ..

Book Two. Snaps? I'm an artist!

Book Three. So what do you do in the week?

Book Four. My Uncle's got a good camera.

Book Five. Shot anyone famous?

Book Six. Who d'ya think you are, David Bailey ..?

Book Seven. Cheese!

 Portrait Photography

69 Portraits

77 More ..

Joy Division

Bowdon Vale Youth Club (French & English versions)

Travel/Documentary Photography

Continental '82 (A road-trip around America .. by air!)

Riding the Dirty Dog (Across America on a Greyhound Bus .. in a week!)

Children's Space Adventure Series

Swapsies

Meet the Neighbours

Friend to the Stars

Don't go near the Black Hole, Sunshine

Children's Fiction

The Boy who missed Next Year

Adult Fiction

Page 99, by Joe Bancroft

SNAPS

Tofalofalos

 

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Ladies and Gentlemen, my new book ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing a book, they say, is the easy part. After that, you've got to market the bugger! So here I am, marketing the bugger, and you're going to have to get used to me going on about it. Yes, I've finally self-published my book, after probably four years of writing and editing (and trying to find an agent!) ..

Page 99, by Joe Bancroft, is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young Manchester lad who lands his dream job as a press photographer on a local newspaper (ring any bells?) There's a lot more to it than that, of course, and it feels good that it's finally all down on paper ..

I've already had a great review, which ends with the line "Personally I loved the book and can't recommend it highly enough, I can relate to so much that Martin has written about, a joy to read, go on treat yourself to Page 99" .. so that's a good start, isn't it?..

If you fancy a good read, you can get hold of your own copy on Amazon Kindle. 

I really hope you'll give it a go ..

2.2.22

It struck me the other day that I haven't written anything here for a while and so, when I got onto this site, I was surprised to see that, this month alone, eighteen people have already read my blog .. and we're only two days into the month. (And that's without even writing anything since last November!) So I got all pretentious and precious and thought that I must write something new today, simply to please 'all' those interested people.

What to write about was a different matter. (Things are pretty quiet around here these days!) My photography consists only of Instagram posts showing leaves and frost and trees - and, of course, I haven't shot a wedding for a long, long time - so I'm hardly in a position to blow your mind with any new photographic insight.

And then it struck me. Today is 2.2.22 and if that's not reason enough to write a blog then what is? Now then, I've had this picture of my Dad on my computer screen for quite a while now. (He's sticking up TWO fingers! See what I did, there?) The reason for the image is that I've written a book that's kinda, sorta based on the years I spent sharing a flat with him, so I've looked at it a lot when I've been searching for words to put down. It's called 'Page 99, by Joe Bancroft', and I'm very, very, very, very proud of it. Getting anyone else to show any interest in it is another matter altogether. I've now submitted it to .. get this .. eighty-nine literary agents without a sniff of anyone wanting to take it forward. (Make that 90 .. I've literally had another rejection this afternoon!) But keep trying, I hear you say. Think of J.K. Rowling. Well, I've thought about her and it doesn't help in the slightest, thank you very much. No, I think my next move might have to be self-publication. Amazon Kindle beckons, and I'll let you know when I hit my first million.

If anyone out there .. anyone! .. is interested in reading my book then please let me know here. It's all about music, looking for chicks .. oh, and press photography .. and is funny, sad, historically interesting and a fab look at the shared lives of two working-class blokes in 1970s Manchester.

As with all 'authors' I feel that, once it lands in the right place, my book will prove to be very successful. When it is, I'll then unleash my second book on the world and try to get used to all the world renown. My second book? Yes, that's right. I've written TWO!