Best Seller Plan

By Tony Thorne MBE

This book outlines two different ways of being a successful author. Readers can decide for themselves which is the best to try?  The first section covers the author's personal experiences, failures to triumphs and his ongoing optimistic situation.

The second section introduces another maverick writer, fanatically determined to succeed come what may... and it all does! Readers will enjoy seeing how he overcomes all the obstacles fate, and the competitive market, put in his way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Oct 31, 2017

Tony Thorne MBE

I am an Englishman, born and technically educated in London, England, and now living in Austria; but in the winter, in the warmer Canary Island of Tenerife. I originally qualified as a Chartered Design Engineer, specializing in Applied Physics products. For developments in the field of low temperature (cryo)surgery instruments, and very high temperature (carbon fibre) processing furnaces, the Queen awarded me an MBE. Earlier in life I also wrote and sold science-fiction and humorous stories, was an active SF Fan, and a spare time lecturer for the British Interplanetary Society. Now retired I write quirky speculative fiction; mostly tall Science Fiction and Macabre tales, with over 100 short stories published in various collections, including MACABRE TALES, THE BEST OF THE TENERIFE TALL TALES, THE JUNIOR PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY, BEST SELLING AUTHOR PLAN etc.. The first 4 volumes in my near future, 5 stars SF espionage series for general readers, POINTS OF VIEW, are now available from Amazon, Smashwords etc. My best selling title, THE SINGULARITY IS COMING, is published in English and Chinese versions.

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BEST SELLING AUTHOR PLAN

©2013-2017 Tony Thorne MBE

Third edition, June 2017

Updated with information about the author's more recent setback, its solution and his further encouraging progress.

Acknowledgements - Thanks to meine liebe Viennese frau Eva, and all my friends and relatives, present and past, whom I’ve enjoyed meeting in Tenerife, including Colin Kirby, Joe Cawley, Sue and Alan Powell. Not forgetting that late, most generous SciFi author, Harry Harrison, of Stainless Steel Rat fame, who liked my stories, gave me the following glowing introduction to them and then inspired me to write my own series of near future novels, Points of View.

"Tony Thorne has the mind of a scientist and the soul of an artist. His science and technology are correct, his extrapolations wonderful and ingenious. But then surprise! A blackness may descend – or a brilliant flash

of black humour. Read and enjoy"

All rights reserved. All the characters in this particular book

are fictitious except one, me, so any chance resemblance to any other living persons in the stories, or otherwise, is coincidental…if not impossible.

Cover photo© by ET, the author's closest relative.

Part BEST SELLING AUTHOR PLAN

The best laid plans.... etc. etc.

The Nagging Problem

I hopefully trust you will read and find the following updated autobiographical item of interest. After that we’ll get into the quirky alternative account of how another fiction author made it. You can ponder over which is the most interesting plan, and perhaps send me a few comments?

Now to begin my own account…

In the last few years, things have changed dramatically in the writing and publishing business, and will never be the same again. Anybody, perhaps almost everybody nowadays with any kind of computer seems to be having a go at it!

Nowadays then, to most agents and acquisition editors, it must seem that there are far more writers around today than there are readers. Why do they do it? The irresistible lure of possibly, hopefully doing another Harry Potter?

Perhaps their thoughts have turned to dreams of a preferable alternative to their daily boring occupation? Maybe they’re also making them an exercise in self-fulfillment