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Michael McGarrigle
I write about what I know, so the best way to find out more about me, is to read my books or my blog, which is at http://michaelmcgarrigle.com/.
I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but I now l...ver másI write about what I know, so the best way to find out more about me, is to read my books or my blog, which is at http://michaelmcgarrigle.com/.
I was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but I now live near the foot of a 1200m mountain in Hualien, which is a small city on the Pacific coast of Taiwan. I have my own English school, wherein I devise new ways to teach English to Chinese-speaking children of 4-16 years old with varied degrees of success, amusement and pleasure. The humorous and heart-rending stories that have involved the students and the teacher who toil in this school could probably fill several weighty tomes.
I love poetry, music, my family, writing and living in a place where I am misunderstood regularly, but where I am tolerated, where I am well fed and healthy, where opening my front gate reveals a spectacular view of the olive coloured sheer slopes of the tall mountain that I have already mentioned and where I am ten minutes' drive from the glorious Pacific Ocean. I am grateful to this Earth’s inhabitants for giving me the sort of education that I could never have imagined to be possible in the callow days of my youth.
I have experience in the teaching of English to Chinese-speaking children, television broadcasting, engineering, running a business, being a good and bad father, husband, son and brother, finding and losing friends, being violently ill in strange places and being scared rigid by the earthquakes to which I will probably never become accustomed and which regularly shake the ground on which I now live.
I have backpacked in six continents and have been violently and spectacularly ill in three of them (blood both ends). I have written three very different novels and one travel book.
“The Benign Abductor of Souls” has been available since the middle of June 2015.
"The Wife Finder" has been available since September 2015.
"Footprints in the Cheese", a book for teenage and young adult readers, has been available since May 2016. This book stated life as three books, but is now the last part of a trilogy, which I am writing back to front.
Quiet desperation is not my thing, so I live in hope and leaven my most impractical optimism with copious amounts of annoying pragmatism. I have purchased ten ISBN’s and abhor waste, so you can expect a regular output of work.
A word about pricing:
I allow the reader to set the price for all of my work. I advise you to download anything for free at first, by changing the recommended price to 0.00. When you have read the book, you can then decide how much the experience was worth, in monetary terms. The recommended price for all of my books is US$1.49. Out of this, I get approximately US$1, on which I must then pay about 20% tax. I think that that is fair, since it probably takes most people at least twenty hours to read my books. Twenty hours of entertainment in the cinema equates to about twelve movies and in most countries that would cost you more than a hundred times the amount that I eventually receive for one book.
If you cannot afford to pay money, for whatever reason, you could write to michaelmcgarriglenovels@gmail.com and let me know whether you enjoyed a book, or you might like to write a review on one the many review sites. I am grateful to anyone who gives time to reading what I have written and I know that everyone's circumstances are different so don't feel bad if you can't pay. Everything in life evens out eventually. If you don't do something for me directly, you will probably do something good for somene else and that goodness will eventually find its way back to me or someone about whom I care.ver menos