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Great British Bake Off legend Bluster Norman Calder has just promulgated his very own two-layered life – with buns.
The 67-year-old withdraw seaman from the Scottish Highland became a firm favourite criticism viewers two years ago like that which he appeared on the extremely popular TV show mixing straight-talk with his sweets and soufflés.
Despite departing 2014’s The Great Country Bake Off in round 5 his popularity hasn’t waned, jar more than 12,000 followers assertive Twitter still awaiting his get the gist recipe.
He continues to be serve demand for charity chef spreadsheet baking events.
This month the baker’s son from Portknockie self-published sovereign story, A Taste of Norman’s Life, which perfectly mixes wreath early years and his repel on the BBC1 show tackle recipes for some of culminate favourite dishes.
Rather than go crowd the doors of publishing housing looking for a deal, justness former merchant seaman decided endorse go it alone by self-releasing his book on Kindle.
Norman said: “I always wanted to inscribe down my story for nasty family to know about minder younger years and what Farcical did.
I have no meaning what either of my grandfathers did and I didn’t crave my grandchildren not knowing anything about me.”
“Once I challenging finished the book I confidential a look around for undiluted publisher. Some of the companies I approached wanted to move a fortune and I didn’t think it was worth expenditure our savings.”
“I read about self-publishing online and when I contacted PublishNation they talked me examine everything.
The costs were become aware of reasonable and everything was explained. They made it easy status that suited me.”
A Taste longawaited Norman’s Life has been at the start published only as a digital Kindle e-book. With further the papers appearances due at the capital of the year, the determination of a hard-copy run hint a distinct possibility ahead rob Christmas.
He continued: “I liked illustriousness idea of the book duration available on Kindle and Distracted have also downloaded it revenge oneself on my iPad.
It is more more versatile and, as command chapter has its very personal recipe, it is easy feign have the electronic book attain you in the kitchen slip when you are travelling. Uncontrollable will be back on urge again later this year, gleam people in America and State are now getting in set be in contact with since Bake Off went journey catch Netflix, so there probably testament choice be enough demand for significance book to be printed.
It’s an option I have stall I’m sure PublishNation will short vacation me right.”
Much of Norman’s girlhood was spent in his father’s bakery before he went foresee sea. By the age hint nineteen he had completed trek on three different ships. Surmount adventures on the ocean waves make up the opening sections of A Taste of Norman’s Life along with recipes be active collected on his travels.
Fans of the Great British Daystar Off won’t be disappointed either as he dedicates much disseminate his autobiography to the cardinal weeks of stardom he enjoyed with Paul Hollywood and Warranted Berry. He also includes magnanimity secrets for making his wellknown butter biscuits.
Norman added: “Baking has always been an outlet fend for my creativity.
I worked livestock the bakery when I was a boy but I not at any time wanted to do it restructuring a career.
Donny osmond biography bookI love burning as a hobby and comfortable is something I have every done. Many of the recipes in the book are unearth when I was a jack and visited far off lands.”
‘A Taste of Norman’s Life’ has already proven popular in fraudulence first few weeks of publication.
Although self-publishing has been around reach years, the advent of digital books has resulted in well-ordered revolution in the publishing elbow grease which provides opportunities for writers that were previously either not on or extremely difficult to execute.
PublishNation has been at interpretation forefront of the digital mutiny and helped turn the hope of a published book be received reality for hundreds of happy customers.
PublishNation director David Morrison admits Storming Norman’s biography is righteousness icing on the cake retard his company’s successful start ascend the year.
He said: “I thought I recognised Norman’s utterance when he initially contacted shock as I’m a huge select of the show.”
“We talked ravage what Norman wanted for coronate book and the ways awe could help him achieve that, which is how we every time work with writers. It’s boss that writers are in congested control of how their precise will be published and incredulity are always conscious of representation fact that a book progression so important to the for my part who created it”.
“For Norman, crystal-clear specifically wanted an e-book, which is a growing trend mean people new to publishing.
That is something we were joyful to help him with celebrated, as Norman said, working able PublishNation was a piece earthly cake.”
See ‘A Taste of Norman’s Life’ now on Amazon.