Hi all:
As you know on Fridays I bring you guest authors and new books. I have been spending plenty of time recently getting to know a bit better other bloggers, and although I have shared some of their blogs before, it occurred to me that many of the people whose blogs I read religiously are also authors but I had yet to bring them here. So it’s never too late and here I bring you one of them.
Seumas Gallacher.
SEUMAS GALLACHER escaped from the world of finance five years ago, after a career spanning three continents and five decades.
As the self-professed ‘oldest computer Jurassic on the planet’ his headlong immersion into the dizzy world of eBook publishing opened his eyes, mind, and pleasure to the joys of self-publishing. As a former businessman, he rapidly understood the concept of a writer’s need to ‘build the platform’, and from a standing start began to develop a social networking outreach, which now tops 15,000 direct contacts.
His first two crime-thrillers, THE VIOLIN MAN’S LEGACY and VENGEANCE WEARS BLACK blew his mind with more than 75,000 e-link downloads to date. The third in what has become the ‘Jack Calder’ series, SAVAGE PAYBACK, was launched late 2013.
He started a humorous, informative, self-publishers blog less than two years ago, never having heard of a ‘blog’ prior to that, was voted ‘Blogger of the Year 2013’ and now has a loyal blog following on his networks. He says the novels contain his ‘Author’s Voice’, while the blog carries his ‘Author’s Brand’. And he’s LUVVIN IT!
Before I forget, here is his blog. It’s unmissable:
The violin man’s legacy
Thriller with bloody twists and turns as ruthless killers meet their match in a former SAS hit squad.
Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a murderous diamond heist in Holland, but swiftly learns that there is a very strong Far East connection. He then travels to Hong Kong where he meets the glamorous chief of ISP’s local bureau, May-Ling.
Together they begin to unravel a complex web of corruption. The twin spiders at the centre of this web are the Chan brothers, leaders of one of Hong Kong’s most ruthless and powerful triad gangs.
The trail of death and mayhem coils across Europe, Hong Kong and South America until all the scores are settled.
http://www.amazon.com/Violin-Mans-Legacy-seumas-gallacher-ebook/dp/B005D7JNCQ/
Vengeance Wears Black
Jack Calder and his former SAS colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm, are saved from certain death when an ex-Gurkha is killed smothering a deadly grenade thrown into a lunchtime Chinese restaurant in the West End of London. They learn that murderous turf wars are raging between Asian Triads and Eastern European mobsters vying for control of international fiefdoms of drug smuggling, people trafficking, prostitution and money laundering.
An unexpected visit from the highest levels of international law enforcement offers Jack and the ISP team a means to use their black operations skills to wreak a ruthless retaliation against the drug lords.
Unlikely partners emerge in their onslaught against the gangs as the warring criminal factions threaten an unholy alliance to repel them. The pursuit spins across Europe, Turkey and North Africa before a final reckoning.
http://www.amazon.com/VENGEANCE-WEARS-BLACK-seumas-gallacher-ebook/dp/B008H45KJC/
Savage Payback
A series of coordinated lethal bomb attacks on a dozen jewelry stores in London’s West End drag former SAS officer, Jack Calder and his specialist security firm, International Security Partners, into a deadly mesh of murder and international drug running.
A black ops explosives expert, an ex-colleague turned renegade mercenary with a twisted lust for revenge, emerges from the past to join forces with a powerful and dangerous drug baron from Eastern Europe.
A major cocaine trafficker from South America compounds the threats as competitive turf issues straddle international territories.
Attacks close to home heighten the urgency for Calder and his team to find and deal with each of the three sinister adversaries in a final savage payback.
http://www.amazon.com/SAVAGE-PAYBACK-Seumas-Gallacher-ebook/dp/B00G00GZEO/
Self-publishing Steps to Successful Sales
A self-publisher with over 75,000 sales/downloads explains in simple steps how he uses the social networks and ePublishing to enhance sales of his books on the Web and in hard copy.
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Publishing-Steps-Successful-Seumas-Gallacher-ebook/dp/B00JBL6K80/
And now, for a very good cause, Seumas has also taken part in a wonderful project.
Shadows and Light: To Benefit Women’s Aid
Product Description
37 stories from authors around the world. Coming together to aid the key UK charity Women’s Aid. Stories from some of the best in indie publishing around the world today, as well as a couple of big names. The tales within range from horror, noir, crime to a bit of Sci Fi and romance thrown in, all for your entertainment while helping make a difference and furthering the awareness of domestic abuse.
SHADOWS & LIGHT
A Ballard Tale
Andrew Scorah
Placebo
ANDREW VACHSS
The Battered Wife
Graham Masterton
QUITS.
SEUMAS GALLACHER
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
DAVID EDGERLEY GATES
Daylight.
Kevin Holton
THE SAME OLD STORY
by Keith Dixon
WILLIAMS OF THE YARD
IN THE FOXBOROUGH CASE
By Andrew Peters
The Deaths of Andrea Ford
By
David Monk
Across the River
A Story by Samuel Dickens
THE DARE
By
Juliet B Madison
THE OTHER WIFE
~ By Absolutely*Kate
The Last Girl on Earth.
K.A. Hambly
The Summer of Penny Walsh
By Frank Sonderborg
Finding The Phoenix
By
Caitlin O’Connor
Black-Eyed Susan
By Thomas Pluck
The Blues Detective
The Affair of the Precious Packages
Andrew Peters
All Mine
By George Beck
Ruby Pendant
By Melissa Dougherty
Emily’s Valentine
Gerry McCullough
Killing in the Name of
Aidan Thorn
The Princess
The Fox & The Crow
William Rose
The Scent of Pancakes
By Tina Bausinger
The Man Behind the Curtain
By
Paul D Brazill
Doreen’s Tomorrows
by Gay Ingram
East Meets West
By
Jane Morris
THE VISIT
by Dana Wright
Heaven’s Scar
By
Caitlin O’Connor
Jane Unbound
By Kerry E.B. Black
Ellie
By Marie Bishop
LITTLE BROTHER
By
Cath Bore
Almost Christmas
by
Rayna L. Stiner
Floorboard Hoofbeats
By
Cass McMain
AN IRISH STORY
By
Roderick Craig Low
Accounts Payable
By
Hector Duarte Jr.
Through Two Unblackened Eyes
Linda Bonney Olin
http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Light-Benefit-Womens-Aid-ebook/dp/B00MCY6CYK/
Thanks so much to Seumas for being such a sport, for his ongoing support of fellow authors and for his visit, thanks very much for reading, and you know what to do, like, share, comment, and of course, CLICK!
