Author, Screenwriter, Adventurer
Damien Goldsworthy
Books
For Blackthorne, a shy young Goth from Melbourne, life is simple. He has a job that requires him to bring his colleague and best friend, Nerida Yang, to Sydney to present her revolutionary data-mining program. His brother and her boyfriend, Duke, offers to drive them, but Duke has an ulterior motive. During his last prison stretch, he hatched a plan to find a stash of gold near the town of Glenrowan left by one of Australia’s most notorious and misunderstood bushrangers; Ned Kelly.
Duke’s plan leads Blackthorne down a path he’s always feared, one that very few return from and will soon lead them all to the depths of human greed, corruption and murder. Blackthorne has to find a way out, but in his way stands Constable Drinkwater; the psychopathic local cop, and the angered and betrayed locals sent out to bring him to what they believe is justice, but truth and justice here is only a matter of one person’s opinion.
If they find him, they seal their fate and bring about their own downfall. Only together can they survive. But no-one’s willing to listen to the truth Blackthorne’s uncovered, or trust him again.
Bio
Growing up, Damien’s favourite hiding spots were in the pages of a book or in the cinema. He took in the words, images and sounds and knew that this was what he wanted to do, these were the worlds he wanted to create and the stories he wanted to tell.
But as with life, we often get side-tracked from our goals and Damien found himself playing guitar in various bands, a surrealist UV artist and painter and all-round hospitality and retail wiz.
As a Goa and psychedelic trance DJ in the nineties, going by the name 'Psycorrumba', Damien learnt how to weave a journey with music and transposed that skill to the world of film. He was a grip / general hand on the 2000 feature film; “NARCOSYS”, which went on to win best film at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, a brief stint as the floor manager on RMITV’s “Pluck TV” and camera and editing duties on SKA TV news.
Then in 2004 Damien co-directed a seven minute short film; “Gotcha” using only mobile phone cameras, the first at that time, then edited, wrote and performed the music, mixed the sound and eventually fell in love with the process of writing.
Damien set out studying the craft of screen writing, a demanding and highly involved discipline that combines mythology, psychology and philosophy and with the aid of screenwriting coaches such as John Truby, Bobby Galinsky and Michael Hauge, went on to complete the script and novel for “The Lost Kelly Gold” along with numerous other, soon to be released, works.
What is
Self-Publishing?
Self-publishing is a recent thing available to all writers of all kinds of books. Rather than search for the right publisher, face a mountain of rejections and hope that one day your work can get past the readers at the initial stage at publishing houses, a writer can reach out directly to potential readers.
How it works;
Firstly, you need to finish the book you’re writing,
Secondly, find a professional editor to get it to the highest quality of writing possible,
Then you need a printer to create the finished book; print on demand is the best option as there is no need to keep inventory, they handle the shipping and your book is always available.
Next, you need a way to sell the book, so an online store can be created or sold through already established platforms like amazon, book depository etc. of course the best option is to do both.
Then marketing the book. Social media has made this step easier, but never forget search rankings on Google.
Once this is finalised, it’s a matter of getting the people most likely to read the book to know about it, connect with you as an author and show them that your book is most like the books they already read and enjoy.
The possibilities are endless in regards to social media marketing and I find that this is the best way to create a connection with readers. In a way, it removes a buffer that has been in place between author and reader for ages. I control how ads are served, how my book appears on Google and other search engines and how my Fanpage is run.
It is a lot more work, more than I ever anticipated. But there is an enjoyment and a challenge. As the saying goes; if it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. And I am definitely changed.
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