Trumpet blowing time. Finally my latest book has been released after years of trials and tribulations and is now available on Amazon. You can place an order now and it will be delivered to your Kindle on the release date 3rd March. If you prefer to read paperbacks, this option should be available around the …
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Val’s Tales and Bed of Roses
Here in the UK, we’re still under restrictions but the immunisation roll-out seems to be on target. Fingers crossed an end is in sight. When we started our YouTube channel ‘Val’s Tales’ we recorded various intros for the different stories in a home studio with proper equipment, giving us enough for a few months of …
Authors and Valentines
I often rabbit on about my books and my YouTube site but marketing has always been my weakness. How will readers know you exist if you don’t yell ‘Buy my book,’ at every opportunity? Browsing a local site where people were asking for recommendations for plumbers, electricians and similar providers, it struck me how I …
If anyone asks and Listen to Love
This week's story on our YouTube channel is on the serious subject of bullying.It can take many forms, and doesn’t always include a black eye or a broken arm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRNjbB60QIc You might wonder why the person being bullied doesn’t go to the police, or simply leave. Chip away at someone’s confidence for long enough and …
Val’s Tales – Not fade away
Our overseas competition winner, GB Miller has selected ‘Story of a County Boy’ and a copy is winging its way across the pond. With all the excitement of the prize draw I forgot to mention the storycast for Not Fade away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz-ZkHRJIrs&t=146s Before you follow the link to listen, you might need to have the …
Competition winner
Despite everything the gremlins could throw at us, using modern technology we have a winner for our ‘Val’s Tales’ You Tube subscriber’s competition. Yeah! The winner of the paperback by Val Portelli, selected by a random number generator is Drum roll….. Donna Carroll. Congratulations, Donna. Yes, this is England, and yes it is January, and …
Ectoplasmic Rage
The latest storycast in the 'Val's Tales' You Tube series has now been released and you can listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2wC2ftAvuc I love this one. 😀 Various things contributed to me writing the story, including finding objects not where you left them, mobiles switching off mid-conversation, and the way everything these days relies on …
Never stop learning
When I was about 10, I received my first writers’ rejection letter. Every week my father would buy a teen magazine for me and ‘Woman’ magazine for my mother. As soon as she finished reading it, I would devour every page and unknown to my parents, submitted a short story for their regular feature. I …
YouTube subscribers and Christmas Fiasco
We intended to end the prize draw for subscribers to our You Tube channel at the end of December, but true to the obnoxious form of 2020 we hit a snag. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsmbM57q4SzHbOcx3CPbr1Q If you have your YouTube settings as private we can’t identify you. 😳 To be included, if you have subscribed please send an …
Val’s Tales and Aliens
The production of our Val’s Tales YouTube channel has kept us sane in what has turned into a Christmas to suit the rest of 2020. Bah Humbug. Despite everything thrown at us, the second storycast hit the waves this week. In total contrast to last week’s story this one is a little bit of silly …
