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Brothers of Charity Services

Posted by: allanmayer on: September 11, 2009

In November I will have worked for Brothers of Charity Services for 20 years.
Recently we launched our new website, which you can see here:
http://www.brothersofcharity.org.uk/
Click on the ‘Having fun’ section and look at the video, where you will see some of the people I work with from day to day.
Then you may realise why I think [...]

In Praise of the great British Holiday Camp

Posted by: allanmayer on: September 4, 2009

Well that’s the holiday period well and truly over.
Before I went down with the swine flu I did take a couple of holidays- the first in Menorca at a Thompson Gold hotel, the second at the other end of the market at Pontin’s in Prestatyn.
Normally we would take two weeks in the sun. The reason [...]

Tweaking the dream

Posted by: allanmayer on: August 27, 2009

A Crystal Meth True Story.
I have often wondered over the past few months if any of the 400+ books published by YouWriteOn so far would break away from the pack and achieve high sales and sustained Amazon rankings.
This week, I heard that ‘Tweaking the Dream’ by Clea Myers was starting to do exactly that. Since [...]


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  • To see my 2009 review of the ups and downs of being a POD published author. Go to: http://allanmayer.wordpress.com/ 4 days ago
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