“From the Heart” now has a new cover, featuring pages from a book forming into a heart.

Here’s a short sample:-

Gratitude

I am grateful for all the wonderful people in this world,

and that they outnumber the fools, the fuddy-duddies

the cruel, the crass, the sycophants, the selfish

the wastrels, the wowsers,

the liars, the lazy, the greedy, the grumpy,

the arrogant , and the evil.

“Stories of a Lifetime” StoryWorth hard cover edition has now been dispatched to USA, and is in the mail to Australia.

“A Poetic Tribute to Harry Bell” is sold out and distributed.

“Out of My Head” Amazon edition, 6 x 9 size, is available at all Amazon markets.

“Out of My Head” Amazon e-book edition is available for sale

“Brian Haydon Plays” Amazon paperback 6 x 9 size, is available at all Amazon markets.

Three books now at the proof stage, Different covers, different titles. Otherwise, no change.

Obviously I failed at my first attempt. Back to the drawing board! 5 July 2021

Learning about blocks, and applying the lessons to the Publications Page. I still need to learn how to scale these, as well as making the text all the same size. Still developing the book front covers.

I just attended a WordPress webinar on blogging. Very good, and clarified many questions. I think I’ve decided to make my blog a page in the website rather than the opening page.

In other progress, I now have my ISBNs (two books, paper and ebook for each, and my first barcode. Free low-res barcode, but needed to pay for a usable high-res one, and the format was not familiar to me.

I probably need two blogs – one a semi-personal one to log progress in the learning curve, and one for samples of poems and other writings.

Today Michael Cotter died. A friend, a poet, a mentor. Michael was a true intellectual, knowledgeable in the classics, in the great poetry of the world, and the ways of the world. He gave thoughtful but concise comments on my poems, and it was always a delight to read his poetry. I will miss him, as will many others.