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The Best Canterbury Tales Everyone Should Read
The Best Canterbury Tales Everyone Should Read
I would include ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ amongst these… https://interestingliterature.com/2017/01/the-best-canterbury-tales-everyone-should-read/
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Exit - book trailer
Exit – book trailer
Remembering to forget is not as easy as it sounds
Here’s the book trailer for EXIT. It’s a simple video. One of the quickest I’ve done. It’s also one of my favourites. I think what really brings it together, for me at least, is the background track. The artist, Monplaisir, can be found over at the Free Music Archive (FMA). The track is #2 Home and comes from the Monplaisir’s album, Sous…
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‘I Have a Gentle Cock’ dates from the Middle Ages – probably the fourteenth century – as the Middle English spelling (reproduced in the original below) suggests. And yes, there is a bawdy double en…
Exit - print edition cover reveal
Exit – print edition cover reveal
The print edition cover for Exit has finally been released. If you still haven’t read the preview yet, then you can do so here.
EXIT – available in paperback now!
When I design a cover, I usually have a number of ideas. I mock them up and then take a week or so to consider each, sometimes changing fonts and placement. This time, I knew exactly what I wanted.
I didn’t take the photo. In fact, I…
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Exit... Signs
Exit… Signs
Here’s the Pinterest board for Exit…
As always, whenever I stumble across an image that appeals to the story that I’m currently writing, I pin it to a board. I don’t always bother editing the tags… that’s too much bother. I really only care about the visual and the inspiration that it provides.
The image I used for the cover is not there this time. I found that whilst rummaging around on the…
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‘Grief is a Mouse’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-86) explores a range of metaphors for grief, including the idea of grief as a mouse, which ‘chooses Wainscot in the Breast / For His Shy House’. The idea…
‘A Dream within a Dream’: A Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
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How can we separate reality from illusion? What if, to quote from Edgar Allan Poe, ‘All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream’? ‘A Dream within a Dream’ muses on the fragility and fle…
Robert Burns’s poem ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ follows the titular hero, an Ayrshire farmer fond of drink and spending time with his mates, and not so fond of getting home to his increasingly impatient wife.…
Mixtape - "Exit"
Mixtape – “Exit”
Ah… the humble mixtape!
Those older readers will no doubt fondly recall sitting with a handful of cassettes and their cassette recorders whilst connected up to another player or the radio. Even better if you had a twin deck!
In the age of drag-and-drop playlists and streams, the art of the mixtape is but consigned to history, myth, and legend.
I made hundreds of mixtapes back in the day. Then I…
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In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle analyses one of Rudyard Kipling’s most baffling stories I agree with Neil Gaiman: Rudyard Kipling was at his best in the short st…
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) has often been ridiculed – she features in Nicholas T. Parsons’ The Joy of Bad Verse – but even her detractors have to admit that ‘Solitude’ succeeds, and certainly …
Exit
Remembering to forget is not as easy as it sounds
What if the soundtrack to your life was forever stuck, unchanging, on repeat? How far would you go to change the person you are?
Tommy and Mary wanted to get out of the city and away from the loop that their life had become. Where better than the backwoods to really forget about everything and find yourself?
It is often the quietest places that…
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Exit
Remembering to forget is harder than it sounds…
I have a new book. It’s called Exit. It’s out now. Please buy it…
That’s what I want to say. The story disapproves of my directness. It wants me to delete the above sentence. I don’t. I won’t.
Many authors will tell you that writing is not easy. I’ll happily tell you the same. Once I finish writing, editing, writing some more, deleting, and…
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>Enter PIN< ...01134
>Enter PIN< …01134
I thought I had posted this last year. Then I remembered I hadn’t. Then I forgot. Again. Then I remembered. Again.
So… here is the Pinterest board for 01134. A few images that I stumbled across when I was writing the story and then again when I was making the trailer. The original image that I found for the cover is in there, too. I remember mocking up a cover sometime around midnight whilst sat…
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The Chalice - Songs and Chants from the book
The Chalice – Songs and Chants from the book
I now realise (much to my chagrin) that I should have included reference to the tunes that the songs within The Chalice made use of.
Those that follow “the beautiful game” (footballto you heathens) will already know the songs that they are frequently sung around the various grounds. For those that have no prior knowledge of the songs sung within football I feel I should give some indication as to…
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The Chalice - Book Release
The Chalice – Book Release
The Chalice is now available on Amazon (Kindle or Print), Barnes & Noble, the Kobo, the iBooks Store, and Google Play.
The book also contains a few pages of artwork detailing the flags mentioned in the story. It is also available as a part of the Amazon MatchBook service (if you own the print version then you can grab the Kindle version for free).
Those of you that have followed this site for…
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