My first-ever blogpost

Hello and welcome to my blog, readers all!
     FYI, this my first-ever blogpost anywhere, and I certainly never thought I'd be writing one, until I finally finished and had published that book that brought you to this site.
     I hereby on this blog now record for myself that, on the 12th of March, 2024, ten days after my 76th birthday,  I received a voice-call on my mobile phone informing me that DHL had three parcels to deliver to me.
      It turned out that in the big carton-sized parcels were 100 copies of Agency, my first (and  likely no doubt last) novel, despatched from England to me here in the South of France by my UK publishing house Troubador.  It was thus an exciting event, of the sort that made it what used to be called a red-letter day.
     So exciting that I was entirely disposed to overlook the fact that the lazy DHL van driver preferred to consign my three cartons of the book to the  Carrefour supermarket just outside the town of Bédarieux, rather than haul them a further score of kilometres to my mountain fastness, tucked away in a tiny hamlet in the back of beyond, in the north of the Hérault département toward the high rocky plateau of the Larzac.
      It's now down to me  to try to distribute 95 percent of  those 100 copies in my possession in the most intelligent and profitable manner for all concerned. (There's a few hundred more copies in the Troubador warehouse somewhere in Leicestershire, in anticipation of the literary equivalent of the Yukon Gold Rush of 1896.)
     So there you (or do I?) have it. My preoccupation is naturally now to get the book known and  bought in sufficient numbers to offset my generous outlay. The good publishers Troubador will be helping me in this to the extent of their powers, but I will have to stir myself too.
      I've a possible book-signing event to  organise in a Bédarieux bookshop in June for starters.
      Meanwhile, I'm putting the finishing touches to my own translation of the book into French with a view to its publication in France.
      More blogpost follows later.