David P. Perlmutter

Hello peeps! Today, I’m excited to present David P. Perlmutter, a successful indie author of both fiction and non-fiction. David has had a harrowing experience during holiday in Spain which he recorded in his book, Wrong Place Wrong Time – an Amazon #1 for True Crime and Biographies.

#1 Best Seller in BIOGRAPHY in the UK.
#1 Best Seller in TRUE CRIME in USA.

I would like to say that yes I made a number of mistakes during the events that took place and I hold my hands up. I look back at what happen everyday and wish I could turn back the clock but you can’t.

The following story is based on true events about my trip to Marbella, Spain, where having lost everything, which was all self inflicted, including my job, apartment and self respect, I leave memories of a London police cell behind me and head for Spain with its promise of adventure and fun. Little do I know that I’m about to be thrust into the most terrifying time of my life.

WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME is a gripping true-life story of an unimaginable nightmare and how my ticket to a new life turns out to be a one way ticket to hell.

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An Estate Agent from North London attends a party with a friend in Islington where a fight breaks out and a few months later is threatened by the same guys from the party, BUT this time with a gun in his back and told if the see him again, they will use the gun. So after resigning from his job, he decides to spend a romantic Christmas in Eastbourne with his girlfriend Jenny. They decide to stay and move to Brighton where he is offered a job as a tele-sales manager for an American portrait company, but first must take a trip to Pennsylvania for a five week training course.

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Aptly named “My Way”, this book will take you simply and easily through each step that I took in order to get my book “Wrong Place Wrong Time” to the #1 spot in True Crime on Amazon’s USA chart. If you’re a newbie, or if what you’ve been doing just isn’t working, I’m hoping this book will help you to get the recognition you deserve. It’s written in a very easy to read style with no technical words, no assumptions and no need to research anything I discuss in order to understand it. Everything is explained fully, and written in its most basic form. I don’t tell you what to do, I show you how I did it. I also provide examples of what I continue to do, as well as links to wonderful people who will help you in your journey. If you’re not a social media guru…if you’re someone who perhaps knows that you should be using Twitter and Facebook and other social media platforms, but aren’t entirely sure how you should be using them or what you should be saying, then this book is for you. However, if you already know what you’re doing and are just looking for the ‘secret’ to having a bestselling book, you’ll be disappointed. There is no secret.

‘My Way’ is quite simply a story. It’s the journey I took from the unknown to the acknowledged; from being in the abyss of the Amazon charts to making my way to the top.

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Hello David and welcome to my blog!

Hi Fros, I’m thrilled to be here.

I understand your book Wrong Place Wrong Time stems from a real-life holiday experience in Spain. Is this the first one you ever wrote?

Yes, it’s my first book. I started to write a blog about my experience when I visited Spain and my friend and now editor said, “David, this should be a book.” And that is what I did, I self-published it on Amazon.

What other writing have you done? Anything else published?

Yes, I have published a marketing book for indie authors called My Way. I have also published a fiction book called Five Weeks and I recently launched another marketing book called My Way Too!

Any hobbies or interests that you enjoy in your spare time?

I enjoy football, tennis, and play table tennis with my friends and brothers. I also dance in my spare time and in fact entered a charity dance event with a very good friend and we came 2^nd dancing salsa!

That’s brilliant, well done, David! Tell us, do you see yourself in any of your characters, or do any of them have traits you wish you had?

As my first book Wrong Place Wrong Time was based on true events, I was the main character!

Yes, of course! Sounds intriguing, by the way. What are you working on at the moment?

After launching My Way Too, I am now working on a sequel to Wrong Place Wrong Time and also planning another book which I hope to be out next year.

Which are your favorite authors, and what do you love about them?

I like dark thrillers so James Patterson is someone I admire as well as Stephen King, of course. His book Misery is in fact featured in Wrong Place Wrong Time.

Do you have any advice for other indie authors?

Just go with the flow when writing, don’t edit whilst writing and just love every minute of it. Also market the hell out of the book once completed.

Choose a male and a female character from your book and tell us which actor/actress you’d wish to play them in a film adaptation.

Well, from Wrong Place Wrong Time I have had many reviews suggesting that the story would make a great film and Tom Hardy, Marc Warren, Danny Dyer and Daniel Mays have all been suggested for the lead role.

Tell us about your website/blog. What will readers find there?

My blog is all about my books, of course, but there are also many books featured from many talented authors whom I have met online. In fact in My Way Too they are also featured in there. All about indie support!

What do you enjoy the most as an indie author that you imagine you wouldn’t if you were traditionally published? If you had a choice would you still go indie?

I love being an indie author as there are so many I have connected with on social media, but would be amazing to have a publishing company who would support and market my books in High Street book shops plus the advance money would come in very handy!

Being an author involves a lot of sitting around. What do you do for exercise?

I walk a lot and play table tennis. One does sweat running around a table!!

Describe your workstation. Are there any favorite objects you have there for inspiration?

As I use my laptop I wander from place to place to write. At this moment I am in a café that my brother and sister run, so I am here a lot. My apartment is one bedroom, so no study as yet!

Is there anything you like to do to get the creative juices flowing when you write?

I drink coffee and when I write in the evening, I would indulge in a glass of red!

Have you brought any photos to show us today?

Yes, I’ve brought two from my travels: one from London (I am at the top of the O2) and another from the beautiful island of Madeira.

Delightful! Thank you for this interview David; I wish you success with your books.

Thank you, Fros, for inviting me. Best of luck to you too!

Wrong Place Wrong Time is my first book and was encouraged by my family and friend/editor to put pen to paper/fingers to laptop and write. It is based on events that happened in the early 90’s when I visited Marbella, Spain where my dream holiday turned into the biggest nightmare of my life.

I am delighted to share that the book has become a #1 Best Seller in true crime on Amazon in US, along with #2 in True Accounts in Japan and Australia, #1 in Factual in Spain and top #10 in UK. I am also amazed at the number of reviews, over 400 with over 265 x 5* so far! Thank you readers.

My second book is called My Way, it’s about how I have marketed Wrong Place Wrong Time, firstly because I was told I should and secondly to give new authors, like myself, some tips.

My Way has received over 80 x 4/5* reviews from self-publishing authors from around the world.

My third book is called Five Weeks, about one man’s disturbing trip to America, where he was nearly left for dead in a remote Pennsylvania forest.

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