SPEAKING of LOVE was shortlisted for Spread the Word’s Books to Talk About in 2008 and sold 4,000 copies. But sadly its publisher, Beautiful Books, went out of business in 2011. It was reissued as an ebook through amazon, where you can also find second-hand copies.
My second novel, THE DANCE of LOVE, was published in 2014 by Buried River Press, which was bought by Crowood Press whose fiction list was later bought by Joffe Books in 2019. You can order the novel from Amazon or from The Book Depository with free worldwide postage. And if you’d like an electronic edition you can order it here.
My third and fourth novels are in different stages of progress.
These novels are very different in tone and voice, era and setting, but the thing they all have in common is the difficulty we human beings have when we try to talk about what’s in our hearts.
I contributed an original creation myth to the JUST WHEN? STORIES in 2010 and, in 1995, I wrote the 30,000-word ending to Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel, THE BUCCANEERS.
Between January 2016 and December 2018 I contributed a story each month to Visual Verse, an Anthology of Art & Words. They email an image (if you subscribe) and writers submit stories or poems of between 50-500 words in response. You must write for an hour only, but that concentrates the mind wonderfully. Visual Verse publish the stories and poems beside the image. Quite often they tweet about the stories they like. It’s been a very good discipline that’s shown me I can write a story very quickly (sometimes!) and, who knows, these shorts might become the nucleus for longer stories one day … .
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