13 ratings | 10 reviews | avg rating:4.77

more photos (1)

Alain Miles’s Followers (21)

Alain’s Bookshelves

read (13)
currently-reading (2)
to-read (2)
i (0)
indies (1)
influences (7)
recommended (1)
world-lit (2)

Alain’s Friends (136)

Betsy Robinson

1,152 books | 743 friends

Bisi Adjapon

441 books | 125 friends

Caroline

707 books | 191 friends

Kimberly Krey

407 books | 1,402 friends

Kimberly Hicks

1,128 books | 518 friends

Nancy

804 books | 3,927 friends

J.L. Campbell

216 books | 944 friends

Nick Kelly

1 book | 12 friends

More friends…

Alain Miles

Goodreads Author

Born

in Tonbridge, The United Kingdom

August 07, 1950

Website

http://www.alainmiles.com

Twitter

ctrlalzshift

Genre

Fiction, Ebooks, Poetry

Influences

James Joyce, Thomas Hardy. John Fowles, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Har ...more

Member Since

February 2010

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/alain_miles

edit data

It's an exciting time for creative writers. Just as the printing press gave birth to the novel, e-publishing opens the door to literary innovation - and we don't know where that'll take us yet.

I love printed books, and there will always be a place for them on my overflowing bookshelves. But my own work at present is experimental and designed for electronic publishing: it would need to be re-written - or at least re-cast - to work in print.

Through Goodreads, I hope to make contact with other readers and writers who share my interest in pushing past convention and formula writing to take literature to new frontiers.

As well as my published Kindle stories, I'm posting several times a week at www.alainmiles.com, writing about a real-life adventu ...more

18 posts
Alain Miles's Blog

Imaginative Dementia

There's something about walking that seems to set the creative juices flowing - not least when the walker is a person with dementia.

The post Imaginative Dementia appeared first on alainmiles.com.

View more on Alain Miles's website »

Like • 0 comments • flag

Published on May 28, 2015 04:39

View all 18 posts »

Combine Editions
Alain Miles’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 5 ratings · 4 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Lebanese Troubles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting For Orders 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting For Orders 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pilate's Bag 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Alain is Currently Reading

Alain Miles is currently reading

Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia

by Vicki Tapia (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 13, 2015 01:46AM

Alain Miles is currently reading

A Road of Blood and Slaughter

by David Hunter

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Dec 06, 2013 04:02PM

Alain’s Quotes

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

tags: writing

2949 likes

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

2021 likes

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4108 likes

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

3650 likes