Smashwords e-book sale now on

Smashwords spring e-book sale is now on. Thousands of books at discounted prices or FREE!

Many of Barnaby's books are included in the sale. Your opportunity to download a great read at a great price.

You can find Barnaby's sale price books at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/barnabywilde










Mercedes Drew Collection now half price. Volumes 1-3 (click on the link below to purchase)

Mercedes Drew the collection












Out of Time FREE! (click on the link below to purchase)

Out of Time

Love paperback now for Valentine's Day

Stuck for a Valentine's gift? Why not give her (or him) a book of Love?

'Love' is a collection of short stories by Barnaby Wilde, loosely linked by the theme of love.
Stories of meetings and partings. Stories of hope and loss. Romance, danger, hope and wishful thinking. A little humour, a dash of pathos and a whole lot of love.

Ten short stories and a handful of poems, now available as a paperback from Amazon. To purchase, go to  https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1795420235

Of course the e-book version is still available if you want to save a few bob, but a book is something to treasure and what's more you can write your own declaration of love inside. What could be nicer to unwrap on Valentine's day? Almost as cheap as a card, but lasts so much longer.

Amelia goes for coffee and finds a man in 'The Blueberry Muffin Affair'. A boy meets a girl on a train and misses his chance, (or does he?) in 'The God of Small Things'. A new member of the mile high club, in 'Night Flight'. A couple on the run after robbing a gas station (a story and a ballad) in 'I Heard a Song Today'. Even a fairy story in 'The Princess and the Frog'.

Smashwords end of year digital book sale is now on.

Thousands of books are FREE, half price or less, including many Barnaby Wilde titles.

The sale runs until Jan 1st.

You can visit Barnaby's Smashwords page here

Or find out about more of Barnaby's books on his website here

Out of Time is now available at Amazon  here for just 99p  Amazing!

Out of Time

New Barnaby Wilde Time Travel novel 'Out of Time' published at Smashwords today.




A chase through time as two men’s lives become inextricably linked when their time lines get entangled

The ubiquitous ATM hides a little known secret. For a select few, with the correct plastic card, not only will they dispense cash, but also enable time travel forward or backward along your personal timeline. But what happens if you use someone else's card?
Out of Time illustrates the perils of Time Travel as two men's lives become inextricably linked when their time lines get entangled.

A gentle romp through the paradox and hazard of messing with time.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/909251

Have you discovered TAT?

TAT, or The Australia Times, is an online series of e-magazines on just about every topic you can think of. And it's FREE!

And, no, you don't have to be Australian to enjoy it. Just interested.

Magazine titles include Poetry, Antiques, Beauty, History, Kids, Film, Fiction, Theatre, Sport, Science, Travel etc etc etc. There were at least 48 magazine titles when Barnaby last counted, with more being added all the time.

And why is Barnaby promoting TAT? Because it's an amazing resource and also because they've been kind enough to publish some of his poems and short stories. (You can find two of Barnaby's poems in this month's poetry magazine here ).

 

Why don't you search out some TAT for yourself? It's FREE. You can find links to all the magazines here

And if that isn't enough, you can find links to all Barnaby's stories and poems at www.barnaby-wilde.co.uk and some of those are FREE too.

Goodreads poetry winner

Barnaby was surprised and delighted when his poem 'Under the Table' was chosen as a finalist in the monthly poetry competition hosted by Goodreads. He was even more surprised and delighted when the poem received the highest number of votes. It's a true story.

Under the table

There’s a sort of springy wire underneath my dining table,

That’s in a kind of runner down each side.
It should go round a pulley thing in order to enable,
Each of the extending leaves to smoothly slide.
But I think the springy wire must have fallen off the pulley
As the metal slider thingy doesn’t work.
Instead of sliding smoothly it no longer opens fully,
It just judders to a stop in little jerks.

So now I’m lying on my back underneath the dining table,

Trying to work out what’s gone amiss.
But the metal covered runner thing that holds the springy cable,
Is preventing me from seeing what it is.
I prod it with my finger and I pull the springy cable,
But I can’t see far enough along the track.
And the rail that runs from end to end that’s underneath the table,
Is digging rather sharply in my back.

I think that maybe if I took off both the wooden sliding panels,

I could re-attach the wire thing again.
As long as I could poke it back along the metal channel,
I might hook it round the pulley with my pen.
But, is it really worth it?  I can feel my will desert me,
When I see it’s held each side by seven screws.
That’s twenty eight in total just to get the beggar free,
And twenty eight to put back in once it’s been loosed.

Thirty minutes later and I’ve unscrewed twenty seven,

But the last one’s gone and got a busted head.
I wish I hadn’t started and I’ve lost the will for living,
But eventually I free the broken thread.
Now I’m studying the cable that’s fallen off the pulley,
And I’m blowed if I can see what holds it on.
But I poke it down the channel and I hook it back on fully,
Can’t help thinking that it won’t stay there for long.

Now if you think it wasn’t easy taking out the bloody screws,

It’s ten times harder getting them to go back in.
Because gravity’s against me and I’m really not amused,
Indeed my patience now is wearing rather thin.
But, finally I’m finished and that springy wire cable,
Is back around the pulley wheel again.
However, when I pull the leaf out to extend the flipping table,
Nothing happens to the one the other end.

So, was it all a waste of time dismantling the slider thing,

Two hours discomfort lying on my back?
Well, there is a tiny benefit from all that disassembling
No wire now hanging down beneath the track.
And the other little consequence of this minute adventure,
Is that I went out and wrote this little song.
So if you’re feeling musical, while I have your attention,
Why don’t you clear your throat and sing along …

 

…There’s a sort of springy wire underneath my dining table, …

 
  Barnaby Wilde (November 2008)

You can find this poem and many others in Barnaby's collection 'Tunnel Vision' here

You can read all the finalists poems here

For more information about Barnaby's poems and fiction visit www.barnaby-wilde.co.uk