OLIVER HILL

It took me a full ten years to finish So…what next? If I ever get to author another book, I had better speed up a bit! It is amazing, looking back, how much research is required to get facts correct. School days were simple as my mother had kept diaries and other paraphernalia such as term reports (God forgive me). I particularly treasured my headmaster and housemasters’ final reports from English boarding school.

For some reason, as I had never done so before, I kept a couple of diaries over the next part of the book in which I would recount the goings-on maybe every three months or so. These are invaluable.

Recently, I  answered the door of my home to admit a delivery man. He presented me with two very heavy boxes. In them were, wrapped tightly, one hundred copies of my self-published book. There could be no going back to recheck, revise, tidy up, or rename what was stashed in the boxes. I imagine that every author goes through the same emotion upon seeing the finished product for the first time. Hopefully, some of the recipients will read the book from cover to cover.

So…what now?

Oliver Hill.