Jack Johnson is forty-five years old and is married with two children. He is a tech entrepreneur with a few million quid in his expanding bank account. With his really expensive silk underpants – which he wears only once – he owns the most expensive car ever made, wears the most expensive suits, walks around in the most expensive shoes and tells the time with the most expensive watch. He owns and lives in a huge ten bedroomed house in an extremely desirable part of central London. His wife, April, is an ex-model. She’s absolutely gorgeous. His eldest child, Jack junior, is in his final year of university with unquestionable prospects of leaving with a ‘first’. Jack junior has thoughts on being an astronaut and there is every reason to believe that he will be the youngest astronaut to pilot a spaceship to some far-off planet. Jack senior’s daughter, Ophelia, has just started university and is destined to be an Engineer. 24 Now don’t go thinking that Jack senior has worked his fingers to the bone all his life to achieve such a comfortable and successful lifestyle. He hasn’t. Something out there in the dark matter has organised and manipulated his life for him and is watching, with eager anticipation, Jack’s quota of good luck being depleted. With all the good luck that Jack has had throughout his life he will soon know what it’s like to experience bad luck. We’ll see how his luck changes in a moment. John Jackson, on the other hand, has led a somewhat miserable existence since he was born. 25 He must have had every ailment known to mankind in his younger years, but he rode through those times to reach his present age of forty-five years. He presently lives in a rented two bedroomed house in Margate, and he used to be a bin collector for the council. A respected job worth doing, with a liveable wage (just), regular hours and a decent lunch break. His wife, Mavis, works at a checkout in the local supermarket and his son, Bert, stacks the shelves at the same outlet. Mavis got him that job as soon as he left school, and Bert – not an abbreviation of Bertram, or Albert, or Herbert, not an abbreviation of anything, it’s just the name his parents gave him – Bert enjoys the responsibility placed on his shoulders from such an important role. John’s daughter had been the daughter from hell, and John was bloody glad that she upped and went to live with some waster in a squat somewhere on the outskirts of Sheffield. John once enjoyed the tea and cakes brought out to him for elevenses by an appreciative housewife during his rounds. Not anymore. He dropped a bin on his bin collection lorry driver’s foot, putting the driver into hospital for a month and making him unemployable as a lorry driver for the rest of his life. Now that’s what you might call ‘bad luck…’ Or perhaps not. Anyway, the driver sued the firm for negligence and received a massive pay-out in compensation. Enough for the guy to retire to Spain and live in palatial comfort without having to work ever again. This did not please the firm’s CEO. In fact, when John’s CEO found out that the driver 26 was now lounging by a pool in the sun at the firm’s expense, he was furious.
Today we talk about Lucky, or What…?, a book by William A. Pollard published with our publishing house Europe Books.
Europe Books had the pleasure of interviewing the author William A. Pollard to get to know him better, what prompted him to the writing of his book Lucky, or What…?, as well as how his publishing experience was to him.
Below you can find our interview. Take a seat and enjoy your reading!!!
- What prompted you to the writing of your story?
Some people are lucky, some are not. What would happen if your good luck balances out your bad luck, managed by some entity out there in the ether?
- What are the messages you wanted to send out to your readers?
Greed does not pay.
- Are there any books you are particularly interested in and that have taught you something?
I like action books, like Jack Reacher.
- How was your publishing experience?
My publishing experience with Europe Books is excellent. They are fast, accurate, helpful and always try to publish a best seller. That’s why I’ll continue to ask them to publish my manuscripts.
- Are you planning to write more books? Can you reveal more about it
Yes. It is called INSIDE. It is about the tiny army of people that lives inside you, managing all your internal organs. They have lots to manage, and they have lots of problems to solve.
Europe Books thanks the author William A. Pollard once again for taking the time and answering our questions. We are really pleased to have walked alongside him on the editorial path that led to the publication of his book Lucky, or What…?. We wish him the best of luck for his book and for his future works.
To you, my dear reader, may this book engage you, capture your curiosity and amuse you. May it also provide you with food for thoughts to apply in your everyday life.
So, my dear reader, all I have to say is to enjoy your reading!
Your editor!