“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

‘We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.’

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

― Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

 from 

“Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories (a Picture book)”

published today at

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YA1BPGS (Kindle e-book)

and at

 http://www.amazon.com/Bismarck-Dorsetshire-Memories-Picture-Book/dp/1512380776    (paperback)

Also there are text versions of my dad’s book Bismarck, Dorsetshire and Memories available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YD3TV4G (the latest version)

and

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Bismarck%2C+Dorsetshire+and+Memories+&rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3ABismarck%5Cc+Dorsetshire+and+Memories+

and http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Bismarck%2C%20Dorsetshire%20and%20Memories%20(a%20Picture%20book

(as this “total non-techno wally” daily learns more about the publishing process)

from http://www.bismarckdorsetshireandmemories.wordpress.com

picture from https://sunriseindustries.wordpress.com/

The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write and publish ” are available at http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4

http://goo.gl/vTpjk (and/or http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock)

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE (paperbacks)

and http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books

All proceeds go to needy and underprivileged children –

MINE!

“Together, one mind, one life (one small step at a time), let’s see how many people (and lives) we can encourage, impact, empower, enrich, uplift and perhaps even inspire to reach their fullest potentials…and strive for and perhaps one sunny day even achieve their wildest dreams.”

Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand

picture from http://www.itsalwaysdarkestbeforethedawn.wordpress.com and http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

– “the master writer”, Ernest Hemingway

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

-Groucho Marx