Small Town Kid – price drop promotion

I've advertised Small Town Kid in both, the US and UK, via the promotional newsletter of 'The Fussy Librarian'. You might recall I was beside myself a short time ago when Walk Away Silver Heart hit #1 in about 8 Kindle categories and in a couple of different countries. That was a free promotion, also …

Books for Older readers (#BFOR) BlogBlitz Day #24

Books for Older Readers (#BFOR) is a UK based group I belong to, and is having a #BlogBlitz, running for about a month, with different members lining up to post, in turn. Today is my turn to post another article at my author site (https://www.FrankPrem.com)! Day 24 of the #BlogBlitz takes us to my site - …

YouTube Trailer Premiere for Small Town Kid and Devil In The Wind

One of each, today. I've scheduled a new video trailer for Small Town Kid and one for Devil In The Wind to go live on YouTube at 19:00 hours today (GMT + 10). This video is a reading of the poem hating whitey from STK (there comes a time when short back and sides just …

YouTube Trailer Premiere for Small Town Kid – loss of faith

I've scheduled a new video trailer to go live on YouTube at 18:00 hours today (GMT + 10). This video is a reading of the poem loss of faith, and I think it touches, in a small way, the difficult lot of immigrant women in a new land. Click here to go to my YouTube …

mcalpines cherries – video reading on YouTube

My YouTube channel will premiere a new video reading from the Small Town Kid collection today (June 11) at 17:00 hours (GMT + 10). This poem is called mcalpines cherries and tells of an adolescent playing at earning pocket money by fruit picking. Find the video here subscribe to my YouTube channel here.  Don't forget, …

New YouTube Video Trailers

  Today my time (May 31st, 2019) Devil In The Wind goes live online at 9:00 (which is GMT +10:00). To mark the occasion, I'm pleased to have scheduled for release this morning not one, but two new video readings: From Devil In The Wind: evidence to the commission of enquiry: the warning From Small …

Small Town Kid – the ‘Crackers’ poem

Anyone who has read Small Town Kid (my poetry memoir of growing up in Beechworth in the 1960s and 70s), will have read about the bonfire that always started proceedings on Bonfire Night: . . . then in the fading light the bonfire on the far side of the gorge is touched off to blaze …

Australian Politics and #MyMum

Our Federal politics are going through a dirty time at the moment, with the Opposition Leader's mother being dragged into newspaper editorializing overnight. This seems to have given rise to a movement on social media - #MyMum, with folk telling what their mother had given up for them. My mother also made great sacrifice for …

Review – Small Town Kid by Simon Pearce (UK/Germany)

A new 5 star review for Small Town Kid. Simon Pearce is an author raised in the South of England, now resident in Germany. Read his lovely review here. Check out his Author Page at Goodreads, here. ~

Small Town Kid – paperback

I've just noticed that Amazon (in all markets) have taken it upon themselves to discount the price of the Small Town Kid paperback edition. Currently, they have it listed at US$3.52 and Aud$5.59. This is a ridiculously big discount, and I'd suggest grabbing a copy while the chance is there if you don't have it …