Rupert Colley's Blog - Posts Tagged "revolution"
"My Brother the Enemy"
I've written ten history non-fiction titles for the "History In An Hour" series (http://www.historyinanhour.com); a series I started myself in 2009 before selling it on to HarperCollins. The series has done, and is doing, tremendously well. It now has several authors and currently 25 titles, of which 19 are available as downloadable audio. (The rest will follow as audio in April 2013).
But originally I started off writing novels. Having written three between 2002 and 2005, I then promptly left them to gather dust.
Almost a decade on, I decided to revisit them and, being able to pass judgement from a distance, thought they were good enough to revisit.
One of them, set during the dramatic Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was, I felt, too long and had too many lead characters. While, as in most novels, most characters meet, mingle and interact, there was one subplot where the characters never met any of the others. It was their tale, two brothers, twins, that I lifted and made into a stand-alone story.
And it is this story, "My Brother the Enemy", that I've just published (February 2013) as a novella: two brothers and the girl they both love amid the fearful violence on the streets of Budapest during the uprising.
Meanwhile, while writing articles for the History In An Hour blog, I'm putting the finishing touches to the rest of my fiction and hope to have them all published by Summer '13.
And a quick May 2013 update, my second novel, "This Time Tomorrow", a compelling story of war, brotherly love, passion and betrayal set during and following World War One is now available.
But originally I started off writing novels. Having written three between 2002 and 2005, I then promptly left them to gather dust.
Almost a decade on, I decided to revisit them and, being able to pass judgement from a distance, thought they were good enough to revisit.
One of them, set during the dramatic Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was, I felt, too long and had too many lead characters. While, as in most novels, most characters meet, mingle and interact, there was one subplot where the characters never met any of the others. It was their tale, two brothers, twins, that I lifted and made into a stand-alone story.
And it is this story, "My Brother the Enemy", that I've just published (February 2013) as a novella: two brothers and the girl they both love amid the fearful violence on the streets of Budapest during the uprising.
Meanwhile, while writing articles for the History In An Hour blog, I'm putting the finishing touches to the rest of my fiction and hope to have them all published by Summer '13.
And a quick May 2013 update, my second novel, "This Time Tomorrow", a compelling story of war, brotherly love, passion and betrayal set during and following World War One is now available.
