I don’t know who this person is (an anonymous Kindle Customer), but they had this to say about The Party at the Last Tomorrow: 5.0 out of 5 starsFascinating. ByKindle Customeron November 10, 2017 Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase Well written. Muse is Everyman on a subterranean journey. Clever use of language to create a world to… Read More I Get Reviews, But Not Paperbacks
It took a lot longer than expected, but she’s up and she’s ready to meet the world. It’s very gratifying to see an idea that sat as a mere aspiration in the back of my head come to life. I’ve sweated over it, and it’s completely unlike anything I’ve ever written. You know what to… Read More The Party is Live. Repeat. The Party is Live.
“Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.” -G.K. Chesterton
This lovely strange trip of a book is done and I’m ready to push the baby bird out the nest. This is a story I’ve been imagining and tweaking with for some time. It’s time for it to meet the world. Watch this space.
“I turn the wheel that spins. I delight to see the high come down and the low ascend. Mount up, if thou wilt, but only on condition that thou wilt not think it a hardship to come down when the rules of my game require it.” -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
This is essentially my philosophy. And I too got started on a typewriter…
You can knock Wikipedia all you like, but I discovered some truly interesting information about the descendants of J.R.R. Tolkein, just by doing a bit of research on the Mabinogion. To wit: Christopher Tolkein deserves all the credit in the world for the existence of The Silmarillion. It was he who edited his father’s chaotic… Read More Fun Facts about the Tolkein Family
Good post at The Green Study: My writing tip #234: Don’t read books on writing while trying to write a novel. First of all, it usually sheds bad light on whatever you are writing and secondly, it can make you overly ambitious. I agree. What you need when you’re working on something is Inspiration. It… Read More If You Want to Write a Story, Write a Story…
I may not have mentioned this before, but I have a blog on Tumblr that is devoted to a somewhat geeky and idiosyncratic project: reviewing every music CD I own. It’s called Every. Damn. CD. and it’s got quite a history. I’ve been working on it for a long time, because I have long spells… Read More Tumblr Jazz
Justice is not done to the versatility and the unplumbed childishness of man’s imagination. -Robert Louis Stevenson
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