Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Sunday, 14 October 2012
New cover?
It is my
grateful heart that makes me invent God anew every day. - The Immoralist.
How
horrible it is to start in the semi-darkness before dawn! - “
I have seen the sky shiver as it
waited for dawn. One by one the stars faded. - “
Watching For The Dawn
..is back on track! Have done what is probably a final edit on the 65k words written so far (already edited down so that's a good figure) and last evening started on new writing to complete the book.
Impressions: it flows well from We Go Down Slowly Rising, and they blend they admirably as part of a series.
The locations are a bit more diverse in this sequel than the first book: beginning in Uplands, Swansea, the action moves to Whitchurch in Cardiff and then to the bulk of the narrative, which happens in Newport and Caerleon.
I took a photograph yesterday by the Usk - close to where the cover photo for We Go Down... was taken - and have mocked-up a cover for this new novel. I'll post it here.
A lot of quotes in this book too: as before, some Mao. And much of Andre Gide.
Impressions: it flows well from We Go Down Slowly Rising, and they blend they admirably as part of a series.
The locations are a bit more diverse in this sequel than the first book: beginning in Uplands, Swansea, the action moves to Whitchurch in Cardiff and then to the bulk of the narrative, which happens in Newport and Caerleon.
I took a photograph yesterday by the Usk - close to where the cover photo for We Go Down... was taken - and have mocked-up a cover for this new novel. I'll post it here.
A lot of quotes in this book too: as before, some Mao. And much of Andre Gide.
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Bee And Other Stories
And the last thing I'm publishing for a while (again, as a Kindle ebook), so I can get back down to work finishing Watching For The Dawn.
The Bee And Other Stories is a collection of 11 short stories written after my three extended visits to India, between 1986 and 1998.
One of the stories, A Night At Mrs Rajalaxmi's, was published in the Sci-fi magazine The Third Alternative (Summer, 1994), otherwise they are previously unpublished.
The locations span much of the subcontinent, including: Kashmir; Fatehpur Sikri; Goa; Kerala; Agra; Mahaballipuram and many other places.
The Bee And Other Stories is available for download now.
The Bee And Other Stories is a collection of 11 short stories written after my three extended visits to India, between 1986 and 1998.
One of the stories, A Night At Mrs Rajalaxmi's, was published in the Sci-fi magazine The Third Alternative (Summer, 1994), otherwise they are previously unpublished.
The locations span much of the subcontinent, including: Kashmir; Fatehpur Sikri; Goa; Kerala; Agra; Mahaballipuram and many other places.
The Bee And Other Stories is available for download now.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Under The Hill - Morocco
Under The Hill is set in Morocco, particularly in and around the city of Chefchaouen just inland from Tangier.
Much of the atmosphere drawn on by me was from a brief - 48 hours - visit to Tangier in 1987 or 1988.
I will post a few of the photos I took on that trip.
Much of the atmosphere drawn on by me was from a brief - 48 hours - visit to Tangier in 1987 or 1988.
I will post a few of the photos I took on that trip.
New Old Novel!
An early, unpublished novel of mine, Under The Hill is now available as a Kindle ebook.
It's a short novel completed in the mid-1980s. I had just begun to send it off to publishers and agents when Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist was published to wide acclaim. I read it with incredulity: it was -totally coincidentally - very similar in subject matter, tone and style to Under The Hill.
I gave up sending my novel out and since then it's been collecting digital dust along with a considerable amount of other prose: fiction (novels, novellas, stories), plays (rejected by BBC Radio), travel articles, essays and criticism of Art.
There is another short novel completed in the late 1990s which I hope to make available soon also, in the same format.
Watching For The Dawn, the sequel to We Go Down... and promised for this summer, I have now put back until the winter. It remains tantalisingly close to completion though I experiencing something of a block in this effort.
It's a short novel completed in the mid-1980s. I had just begun to send it off to publishers and agents when Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist was published to wide acclaim. I read it with incredulity: it was -totally coincidentally - very similar in subject matter, tone and style to Under The Hill.
I gave up sending my novel out and since then it's been collecting digital dust along with a considerable amount of other prose: fiction (novels, novellas, stories), plays (rejected by BBC Radio), travel articles, essays and criticism of Art.
There is another short novel completed in the late 1990s which I hope to make available soon also, in the same format.
Watching For The Dawn, the sequel to We Go Down... and promised for this summer, I have now put back until the winter. It remains tantalisingly close to completion though I experiencing something of a block in this effort.