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96. Paul McDonald: A Writer from Walsall



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I recently joined “Facebook” http://profile.to/evaulian/ in order to see if I could find anyone who remembered me from the 60s when I lived in my hometown of Walsall in the West Midlands in Britain. As if by miraculous means, since these happenings are not of an everyday occurrence, I did find someone- Paul McDonald a writer and to top it all a writer who bases his books in Walsall! I was over the moon!

Saturday is a special day for Paul and I thought I’d mention it here as he says:
St Mary's the Mount where Paul and I went to

Paul McDonald


If anyone is in the area call in and give him my best wishes!

In the meantime, in keeping with writers writing novels based in Walsall I thought some may like to know I too have written a novel based on Walsall, although only the first and second chapters, are based in Walsall, in the same school, that Paul and I went to. The other chapters are based in Manchester, the Teacher Training College, and then at the Novitiate in Broadstairs, Kent.
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Marit Meredith said…
I hope you are doing something with this - taking it further - Eva. It's riveting. Autobiographical - or autobiographical fiction?
22 June 2008 at 22:12
Eva Ulian said…
You can call it fiction based on reality which is coherent with all my writing except for children's stories, and even then the border line between Phatasy and fiction is thin.

Come to think of it Anna, is anything we write completely invented from nothing- I don't believe so.

In my case it certainly is not. Reality, is and always will be the key word... Maybe I change the events around, take a bit of personality traits from my headmistress and some from the dinner lady and put them into the Reverend Mother...

Oh and yes, I've sent it to all the agents in Britain, which as you know includes, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland and when I got half way through the US and Canadian ones I decided to bow out gracefully!
22 June 2008 at 22:27
Marit Meredith said…
Have you though of POD - publishing on demand, through say, Lulu? It doesn't cost anything up front - I believe you can even design your own cover. I'd be happy to advertise it in the magazine/eZine if you did - and I would also purchase a copy and I'm sure many more would. It might be a way to get it noticed!
23 June 2008 at 00:13
Eva Ulian said…
I'm working on making a track record for myself at the moment, that is finding magazines who will publish my articles so that editors get to know me and what I'm about and that I'm not a stuffy old religious so and so...

And that I'm the greatest person to work with...

However, what you say is worth a thought or two...
23 June 2008 at 00:25
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