Another post from me, just to keep the ball rolling, as it were, because it seems to be slowing down a tad and we've yet to reach 200 pages, playmates!
Now why would you want to do that, hollow_cauliflower? Why would you want to “find my books”? What possible interest could you have? As if I didn't know.
But, on the other hand, your post is helpful in that it serves to bring attention to what typically happens on “Bugsy-bashing” threads. One of the ARRSE vermin or another picks up on some relatively unimportant detail and then outrageously exaggerates it out of all proportion so as to make it appear more “sensational”. And, of course, other ARRSE vermin eagerly pick up on that and add their own, even more exaggerated, version, just to add fuel to the fire that, they fervently hope, will (figuratively) consume me.
Examples: I mentioned that I learned the trade of picture-restorer and, suddenly I was a world expert on art and picture restoration. I mentioned a freak time I achieved over 100 metres as an emergency stand-in for a 4 x 100 metres relay team at an athletics club in Hamburg and that immediately translated into me being a world-class Olympic sprinter with the “Irish record”. I recounted the "history" of the colour "Indian Yellow" as I'd heard it but, again suddenly, I'd "invented" a pigment.
One time, when some hopelessly decrepit ARRSEr, who was dead set on improving his own standing on the website, mentioned that he'd, allegedly, actually stood on the Berlin Wall on the night of 09 November 1989, he then asked me where I was when the Berlin Wall fell. I answered, as a joke because I just couldn't take the cünt seriously, that I was in Basel (which I actually was) doing a bit of bricklaying (Berlin Wall – bricklaying. Geddit?) That triggered a whole avalanche of posts that I was now “claiming to be a master-bricklayer”. There are hundreds of similar examples. I don’t know why, but I have the rather vague impression that some ARRSErs just don’t like me, although I can’t actually put my finger on why. *snigger” Skuse me if I can’t (collectively) take you rather ridiculous cünts seriously, but that’s really a very big ask.
So let’s take the case of “my books”. I realise you're not at all interested in any explanation that doesn't chime with your personal ambitions on ARRSE, but it’s a typical case of the ARRSE vermin exaggerating and attempting to “sensationalise” the affair in their decade-long vendetta to “do me down at all costs”. Y’know? All those ARRSErs like you, who proclaim to be reasonable, sensible folks in their daily lives, but show their true colours as immature, jealous, resentful, very malicious schoolkids on ARRSE.
First off, I don’t write under any “Sue Donnim”. I've no need to. And the only texts I’ve written that have ever been published were; (1) the education aid I wrote in German, that’s already been mentioned, and; (2) a couple of squaddie yarns that were published in the ARRSE-sponsored book from a few years ago entitled: “Pull Up A Sandbag”.
In the meantime, the 14 books I’ve written have, magically, increased to 17 altogether: 12 in English, three in German and two in Italian.
I wrote my first ever book in 1999; all the time accumulating ideas for a second book. Then I wrote that second book, after which I returned to the first book, with the added experience from the second book, and “smartened it up”, as it were. It was at that point that I realised that the creative process of writing was far more important to me than having my books published. After I’d, more or less, got the hang of writing in English, I decided to try it in other languages with which I was acquainted.
MsG