Update - 1/1/2000
It is now December 99 and my story has been on the net
for six months, the response has been unbelievable. I am
not on the internet myself and my good friend Bernard Ramsden
has set the site up for me on his machine. I am not able
to respond to all the kind letters and comments I have received
and I would like to thank all of you out there and wish
you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
In contrast the response I have received from the local
press and radio who seem to fall over backwards for a string
of VIPs, not only reject me but just don't bother to acknowledge
when I send them my story and that includes BBC Leeds. The
local paper The Yorkshire Evening Post tries to be both
a local and national paper and in my opinion does not do
a very good job as a local paper because of this. This is
the paper that sends me unsolicited circulars/personal letters
telling me how good they are and even had two blokes unsolicited
knocking on my door after dark and pestering me to order
their paper. They then have the gall to say among other
things when I complaint about them failing to acknowledge
the receipt of my story, that I sent my story to them unsolicited,
one good thing about the net, we the ordinary people can
answer back.
I had the brilliant idea of sending my book to a famous
Socialist writer hoping he might be able to give me an intro
or what ever, so I sent my story off to Roy Hattersley ,
I posted it off on a Monday and received it back on the
Thursday together with the following letter.
Dear Mr Hall
Thank you for writing to me about your hope to get your
work published. Much as I would like to help , I fear there
is nothing I can really do. Most magazines and newspapers
are badly over subscribed and these days it is enormously
difficult to break into journalism.
Yours Sincerely
Roy Hattersley MP
All I can say is Thanks Comrade and three cheers for the
internet. PH
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