Monday 17 March 2008

Three of the original booklets

Here are the scanned covers of three of William's poetry booklets, which he sold door-to-door around the Ards Peninsula to raise money for the Cloughey lifeboat. These were kindly donated by Bertie Kelly of Portavogie who had kept them since he was a boy.



Monday 10 March 2008

The Book is Launched!


Pic of Glen and me, with Emma Gibson, Fundraising Manager of RNLI and two of the Donaghadee lifeboat crew. Simon from Harrison Photography took this shot a few Fridays ago.

This will be sent to the press later this week, so keep an eye on the local papers!

We're also sending a free copy to every school on the Peninsula - hopefully some of them might run a lifeboat-related competition, which the RNLI have agreed to help with and judge.

Wednesday 5 March 2008

The Book's on Blue Peter!


BBC TV were in touch with Glen a few weeks ago for copyright permission to read extracts from the book on the tv show. It's already on Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwolere's 4th March 08 video blog entry! Click here to see the short clip - it even mentions Glen's kids Lucy and Evan - it was them that sent the book to Blue Peter in the first place!