A diamond is a lump of coal that did real well under pressure. I love that line and I’m thrilled to find such a good place here to use it. The Ghost of Neil Diamond is a novel literature book by David Milnes. I’m not certain if the author was under pressure while being an expat in the Southeast Asia city of Hong Kong but Neil Diamond is certainly a diamond. (Would that make Neil Diamond’s ghost the ghost of a diamond? – I couldn’t stop my typing fingers.)

The Ghost of Neil Diamond by David Milnes

Let’s take a peek at what some reviewers have to say about this Southeast Asia literature book.

“An extraordinarily precise slice of life of parts of Hong Kong very few know about. Even the dodgy expats who live there. It tracks an English Neil Diamond impersonator, his jumped-up Chinese agent, his ordeals in the slummiest bars of Wanchai and Kowloon and a duelling Neil Diamond impersonator… The best literature from Hong Kong I have read since…”

“…traces Neil’s journey through the side-streets and lonely bars of Hong Kong with an appreciation for the city’s strange comedy, like a Wong Kar-wai film. This is not the glamorous Hong Kong – even the skyline and harbour become, in a wonderful inversion of an iconic scene, just some “cosmetic bottles round a filthy sink” – but it is a haunting one. And as we follow Neil’s mortifying attempts to make it as a Neil Diamond impersonator on the expat club scene, we meet a marvelous cast of supporting characters: the enigmatic travel agent-turned-impresario Elbert Chan, a black tennis coach and potential rival singer, and, most troubling of all, a seasoned Diamond impersonator from Los Angeles with no interest in sharing this potentially lucrative niche market…”

“Highly recommended, whether or not you are a Neil Diamond fan. David Milnes has created characters that will stay with you (and you’ll want them to!) long after the last strains of melody have faded out. Well-paced, very funny, with some superb descriptions of the seedy side of Hong Kong. You’ll find yourself rooting for Neil in some surprising circumstances. And the writing is some of the best I’ve read this year…”

The Ghost of Neil Diamond by David Milnes

Here at ClickMyLit, I’m doing my part to bring self-published and under-promoted literature books to your attention. So how about clicking some of my links?  Then I can quit my day job and run away to Southeast Asia and be an expat book promoter.

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“Only sell what you are sold on.”

Those are good words to live by. I’m sold on self published authors and I’m sold on literature book promotion. I’m also sold on one twitter self promotion tool and I want to share it with you.

Tweet Adder Twitter Self Promotion Software

I use TweetAdder promotion software myself to manage my Twitter following. TweetAdder is why ClickMyLit has a following of nearly 4000 after such a short time. I intend to keep using TweetAdder to take me up into the 10′s of thousands to enable me to give you self published authors even better free literature book promotion services.

Self publishing implies that the self published author will also be responsible for self promotion of their own self published literature book. But self promotion doesn’t need to mean spending hours and hours on twitter to seek out followers. TweetAdder can take on that task for you.

Erin gives Tweet Adder two thumbs up.

I’ll finish this post by re-stating the opening line – “Only sell what you are sold on.” I am certainly sold on on TweetAdder and I’m proud to sell it to self published authors to assist in the arduous but rewarding task of self promoting a self published literature book. (With 0clickmylit‘s no strings attached assistance)

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‘Not since The Color Purple have I read a literature book that evoked such emotions. John T. Wills possesses the ability to transport the reader directly into the life and struggles of his main characters story…’ One reviewer emphatically says about this emerging literature book.

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Just a Season by John T. Wills

Just a Season is a luminous story into the life of a man who, in the midst of pain and loss, journeys back in time to reexamine all the important people, circumstances, and intellectual fervor that contributed to the richness of his life. This fictional narrative begins with a grief-stricken father visiting the gravesite of his beloved son who was killed in a tragic accident; a moment that he and no other loving parent should ever have to face. As he sadly gazes at his son’s headstone and reads what is inscribed there, the dates 1981 – 2001 bring about an illuminating discovery. The tiny dash that separates the years of one’s birth and death represents the whole of a person’s life. So if this tiny dash were to tell his life’s story, what would it say? In Just a Season, the dash of this man’s life is revealed and what emerges from the pages of this literature book is a legacy of true benevolence and grace.

Just a Season by John T. Wills

‘John T. Wills captures a male bonding between generations and lets the literature book reader passively watch as family love and closeness unfold on the literature pages before us–in Just a Season…’

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Beneath Gray Skies is a novel literature book set in a ‘what it’ past where the Civil War never happened and I LOVE the premise!!!

Beneath Gray Skies tells the story of David Slater, a young conscript in the Army of the Confederacy in the 1920s, as he learns power politics from the inside in the West’s last slave-owning nation. He makes friends with a British agent, and strikes up an unlikely acquaintance with Hermann Goering, eventually finding himself rubbing shoulders with President Jefferson Davis III and Adolf Hitler on the first (and last) flight of the doomed Zeppelin airship Bismarck, carrying a mysterious cargo from Nazi Germany to the Confederate States of America. The action moves between the Confederacy and Washington DC as well as London and Berlin, examining the world of “might have been” had the American Civil War never been fought, and the Confederacy survived into the 20th century.

Beneath Gray Skies by Hugh Ashton

Hugh Ashton lives in Kamakura, Japan, where he works as a writer and journalist. Beneath Gray Skies is his first published novel.

Beneath Gray Skies by Hugh Ashton

Do check out Beneath Gray Skies at Amazon where the ‘Look Inside’ feature is enabled and you can sample the writing style of this brilliant new author. Please also tell me here at Click My Lit what you think of this interesting literature book of action set in a past where the Civil War was not fought and where the Confederacy continued on.

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The literature book Paranoia by J.E. Braun is about one man’s struggle with trying to cope in a new world defined by terrorism.  Jim went to work on what he expected to be a normal day but it was September 11 of 2001.  The collapsing towers of 911 killed many and Jim’s hope was buried with his mother in the 911 rubble.

Reviewers have rated Paranoia very high (but as self-confident Click My Lit readers, you don’t need other people to form your opinions on a literature book for you).  One consistent thing the people reading Paranoia have noted, this literature book presents an unusual take on 911.

Paranoia by J.E. Braun

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