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THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
1/9/2021 8:29:11 AM

MY BOOKS ON AMAZON, SMASHWORDS PREMIUM CATALOG, LULU AND ELSEWHERE
As I have stated before I am a crime fiction author who blogs. There are very many professional bloggers on various, great subjects and they do it much more professionally than I.
So it`s really time I explained what I write and why I write that way. "Write what you know" is great advice for anyone starting out to write books. Really only common sense when you think about it isn`t it? So what did I know? Oh stop it you lot. That`s not fair. Well I have spent all my life in Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. so I must know something about where I live surely. Thank you. I decided to write crime fiction. Having been born in Springburn and spent my teenage years growing up in Drumchapel I definitely got educated with regard to various alternative lifestyles to that of becoming an author,a nuclear physicist joining the police or training for the priesthood I can assure you. Add to that the fact that in my early twenties I worked in many pubs in and around the Glasgow area - in various very tough areas at that- and I think you may well agree that I saw my fair share of violence and general criminality. So there we have it.
Initially I began with short stories. As I remember my first complete short story was "Riot" a dance hall/teenage gangland tale so I obviously listened to my own advice eh? My first short story collection followed quickly. " Face Value and Other Tales" was then followed just as quickly by my other short story collections listed below:
Scottish Tales
Ticket Tales
Cautionary Tales
Slinger
Aiding & Abetting
Tales of Dedication
These tales are formulaic. Yes I write to a formula and I take immense pride in that. Readers know what to expect from a Liam Leddy story. Twists turns and totally unforeseen endings
Then I put my mind to really writing about the Glasgow I knew so well. "Body Language" was intentionally written in the language of the Glasgow streets. Street violence is not normally accompanied with polite requests such as "Would you mind ever so much turning in my general direction sir so I may grievously assault with this offensive weapon I have here?" I write what I have seen and heard over many years. The good-and there is of course also an awful lot of that on the Glasgow streets- the bad and the ugly. Also the world renowned cynical, dark, dry, hilariously funny sense of humour all Glaswegians possess.Add to that a thirty year old unsolved murder, twists, turns professional gangsters , police, with truly authentic portrayals of both, and many other ingredients before it reaches it`s totally unforeseen ending , and you have a very rough sketch of my first crime fiction novel. "Body Language" sees the first appearance of Lassiter an investigative reporter. Lassiter has close friends in both the police and also conversely with the top two professional gangsters in Glasgow, Horner and Hagan. Lassiter himself is an ex gang member! However he is also on extremely friendly terms with Inspector Hegarty of Police Scotland and Hegarty`s boss Supterintendent Bradford and his junior Sergeant Dawson. Dawson is an interesting character himself. Hard drinking and extremely violent when required, he is completely unimpressed by either Hagan or Horner. Many other likeable and unlikeable characters abound on the pages of Body Language as the story unfolds.The Lassiter series then continued with my second novel Bad Form and then no3 Body Art. I am writing my fourth novel in the seies at present.
So there you have a rough idea of how and why I write.
All these books are freely available from Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Smashwords Premium Catalog, Lulu, Kobo, Walmart, Payhip etc.
However if you simply Google Liam Leddy you will also see them stocked by all the big bookstores such as Waterstones, WH.Smith, Blackwells, The Book Depository and many, many more.
So you see I did actually know something after all. I must have known all that mustn`t I to write it all down . So there.

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