Recently the Bafta Awards awarded a German Netflix epic called, 'All Quiet On The Western Front', every award possible, amazingly brilliant! Yet behind this awesome success is a long story of lack of finance (typical!). It took many years to gather the necessary finance to re-film the 1929 published anti-war-book, and the rest is history! I also recollect Harry Potter being ignored by publishers for at least seven years before a bright-eyed-publisher discovered J.K.Rowling's fantasy, fantastic masterpieces, the rest is also history!
Now, every author, traditionally published, or self-published, believe his or hers effort is a masterpiece and really should sell all over the planet, become an authentic bestseller (meaning, not just downloaded by friends or family!), a blockbuster film, and the author ending up with more $millions than J.K! Dream on!
Maybe the author of this blog is just another one of the millions of authors dreaming of just that (Actually, I gave up many years ago). However, something keeps ringing in my 'deaf ears' telling me to ignore reality, and hence the reason why, even if I am the only one who believes that a certain trilogy written by a totally 'eccentric', lover of the extraordinary, outrageous, unbelievable, even insane, on the edge humor, action-packed fun and games, is sitting here writing this blog, which maybe ten people will read (If I am lucky!)
The first book of this outrageous trilogy achieved reasonable success with incredible reviews (not written by my mum, she could never concentrate long enough to read my efforts and always told me it was an utter waste of my time and, get a real job! Bless her soul. It was my dad's fault, let's blame him), moreover, the one review that will not release me from this worthless fantasy was written in the Huffington Post UK and it actually compared my book to the one and only crazy creator of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Douglas Adams (The rest is history).
The Book was originally titled; 'Erskine Quint Intrepid Adventurer Extraordinaire', and then retitled; 'Erskine Quint in Timeless Insanity' (which it is, insanity). In the opinion of a once Brit millionaire entrepreneur called, John Coventry, who fell in love with Erskine (not in a gay way) it was (or still is) so brilliant he offered the book a Hollywood film contract, which never materialised because of the same reason, 'All Quiet On The Western Front', had to wait for thirteen years; lack of finance! (Maybe J.K.s efforts were rejected for the same reason, who knows?)
Anyway, this review has 'bugged' my ears, heart, and soul for many years, even after giving up all hope of selling millions of Erskine Quint, and having a blockbuster film made in his name. I guess the bugging will never stop until we all stand in front of an amazing Bafta audience and tell the story of 'The Most Outrageous Book Never Read' (And the rest will be history; dream on!)
Believe it or not, here it is!
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/catherine-graham/the-new-douglas-adams-has_b_2155774.html
We reside in a real world full of INSANITY, and we need to escape from real INSANITY, into a TIMELESS INSANITY to make sense of real INSANITY otherwise we will all go BONKERS!
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