Glenn Ashton

Modern Proverbs for the 21st Century Glenn Ashton

Publisher Marketing: Modern Proverbs is dedicated to all who love proverbs, sayings and idioms tripping off their tongues, or off the tongues of others. If the old proverbs sometimes seem a little bit too old, then perhaps what you need is a modern proverb, designed for our age, the 21st century. This book contains over 500 new proverbs I decided to write during the down times of many a business trip. It's amazing how inspiring it can be to stare out the window of a jet at 30,000 feet and watch huge cloud banks drift across the landscape far below. I fell in love with proverbs and idioms around the age of ten, when I was gifted a book of proverbs by my grandmother. I dived into it, and finished it in a day or so. Those first proverbs gave me an essential weapon to fight adversity (not to mention the angst of a normal adolescence): a comeback ability second to none in my rather limited circle. So it was fun to start with a blank page, a pen, and my memories of days gone by. If you know someone who enjoys reading or proverbs, it could make a good gift, just as my grandmother's did to me when I was young. I hope that Modern Proverbs inspires others to create new proverbs! We could do with a few thousand more. Glenn Ashton BA, LLB, MBA Contributor Bio:  Ashton, Glenn Glenn Ashton, who writes interesting books, used to be a banker and a lawyer, but had more fun writing novels than wrestling with finance and the law, and so turned his hand to his hobby. Glenn Ashton is the penname of Glenn van Schalkwyk. He has written Obelisk Seven, a thriller about obelisks and global warming (co-authored with his wife Loraine Lundquist); Silent Lips (a thriller about New York under siege from a bioengineered virus); Cupid's Crescent, a thriller about bankers and kidnappings; The Euros: Notre Dame Point Zero, the first in a series of thrillers about a unit of super cops defending the European Union against threats; Your Purrfect Way to Publish & Promote Your Amazon & Kindle Books (over 400 pages setting out a Promotion Plan for self-published authors, using social media to promote their books); a play (The Theft of Souls, the trial of Lawrence of Arabia); a collection of modern proverbs for the 21st century (Modern Proverbs); children's books (the LittteTown series); and Small Steps to Bigger Book Sales, a how-to book with 20 tasks to promote your books using social media.