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Burnley Literary Festival
Burnley Literary Festival have kindly asked me to participate in the Local Authors Panel Session. This will be on Monday 9th October, 14:30 to 16:30 at Pop-up Festival venue: 93 St. James's Street (by Wilkinsons Cameras).
Authors Barbara McHallam, Laura Sheridan and Terence Park will discuss what inspires them to write, followed by readings from their respective works. Books will be available for purchase. I will be reading from Burnley, which is a book about the town in general and Burnley Grammar School in particular: Burnley so if this is your thing, come along.
This is part of Burnley Literary Festival which runs from the 6th to 9th of October, 2017. For events listing and tickets see: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/burnle... *
It was back in the 1970s when I first started collecting Philip K Dick. The recent Channel 4 run of Electric Dreams adapts some of his shorter works; alongside this, the Guardian ran an article in which they invited guests to decide on Dick's best novel. Those who like Michael Moorcock might well find this of interest. https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
For me, Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer comes out tops. It gets the balance of profundity and the profane just about right: https://tparchie.wordpress.com/2017/0...
We are still recovering from our move from Rossendale to Accrington; it certainly gave us some sleepless nights. It was a complete disaster as it was rushed and we were moving into a smaller place. This wasn't helped by eldest three children (ie adults) deciding home was best place to help reset their lives (fortunately our youngest was in university). Everything got horrendously mixed up so, although we moved out in September 2016, it wasn't until round about February 2017, as I was re-inventorying my book collection (I have a good 2,000 books) that I realised a box of them had been mislaid. Then I discovered what was missing: the aforementioned Galactic Pot-Healer (as well as a beat up 1960s Lancer edition of Slaves of Sleep by (L. Ron Hubbard). My copy of Galactic Pot-Healer was the Pan edition from 1977 —in good nick considering it is (was) 40 years old. Nothing can be done; who would want to replace the real with a fake?
Writing update:
Flash finished off 50 pieces - mostly sub-1,000 words. Genre ranges from General through Humour to Anecdote, Supernatural, SF and Fantasy and finally Fable.
Short stories: a retro take on dark matter, Storm Nymph, Nereid (sea nymph), and finally a mini fantasy series set in an alternate Estonia.
Longer pieces: There's a YA novella waiting to come out.
Provisional title: Arshaana's Quest
Series title: The Turning Stone Chronicles
Another novella in draft is a dystopian view of Weltemenn.
Working title: Wings
What am I working on? Shameless sex at the core of the Galaxy; a refugee from an interstellar war hiding out on Earth; plus what if we discover boundaries when we try and leave the Solar System.
Plus there's Northern Voices.
What's Northern Voices? A project I've been working on for a couple of months. Another 3 or 4 months to go.
* If you're wondering what else the town of Burnley offers, apart from Premier League football and the strenuous delights of the nearby Pendle Hill, there's a step into the past at Townley Hall, exhibitions at Gawthorpe Hall, There will be plenty of opportunity to see the local sights. Recommended is The Weaver's Triangle,
http://www.visitlancashire.com/things...
Normally, this is best viewed from the comfort of of the Inn on the Wharf. Unfortunately as the pub is between landlords, https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/ima...
Until this is sorted the best options are either to go closer to the town centre, eg the Brun Lea, or go uphill to the Hollywood Star which is adjacent to Hollywood Studios.
Authors Barbara McHallam, Laura Sheridan and Terence Park will discuss what inspires them to write, followed by readings from their respective works. Books will be available for purchase. I will be reading from Burnley, which is a book about the town in general and Burnley Grammar School in particular: Burnley so if this is your thing, come along.
This is part of Burnley Literary Festival which runs from the 6th to 9th of October, 2017. For events listing and tickets see: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/burnle... *
It was back in the 1970s when I first started collecting Philip K Dick. The recent Channel 4 run of Electric Dreams adapts some of his shorter works; alongside this, the Guardian ran an article in which they invited guests to decide on Dick's best novel. Those who like Michael Moorcock might well find this of interest. https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
For me, Dick's Galactic Pot-Healer comes out tops. It gets the balance of profundity and the profane just about right: https://tparchie.wordpress.com/2017/0...
We are still recovering from our move from Rossendale to Accrington; it certainly gave us some sleepless nights. It was a complete disaster as it was rushed and we were moving into a smaller place. This wasn't helped by eldest three children (ie adults) deciding home was best place to help reset their lives (fortunately our youngest was in university). Everything got horrendously mixed up so, although we moved out in September 2016, it wasn't until round about February 2017, as I was re-inventorying my book collection (I have a good 2,000 books) that I realised a box of them had been mislaid. Then I discovered what was missing: the aforementioned Galactic Pot-Healer (as well as a beat up 1960s Lancer edition of Slaves of Sleep by (L. Ron Hubbard). My copy of Galactic Pot-Healer was the Pan edition from 1977 —in good nick considering it is (was) 40 years old. Nothing can be done; who would want to replace the real with a fake?
Writing update:
Flash finished off 50 pieces - mostly sub-1,000 words. Genre ranges from General through Humour to Anecdote, Supernatural, SF and Fantasy and finally Fable.
Short stories: a retro take on dark matter, Storm Nymph, Nereid (sea nymph), and finally a mini fantasy series set in an alternate Estonia.
Longer pieces: There's a YA novella waiting to come out.
Provisional title: Arshaana's Quest
Series title: The Turning Stone Chronicles
Another novella in draft is a dystopian view of Weltemenn.
Working title: Wings
What am I working on? Shameless sex at the core of the Galaxy; a refugee from an interstellar war hiding out on Earth; plus what if we discover boundaries when we try and leave the Solar System.
Plus there's Northern Voices.
What's Northern Voices? A project I've been working on for a couple of months. Another 3 or 4 months to go.
* If you're wondering what else the town of Burnley offers, apart from Premier League football and the strenuous delights of the nearby Pendle Hill, there's a step into the past at Townley Hall, exhibitions at Gawthorpe Hall, There will be plenty of opportunity to see the local sights. Recommended is The Weaver's Triangle,
http://www.visitlancashire.com/things...
Normally, this is best viewed from the comfort of of the Inn on the Wharf. Unfortunately as the pub is between landlords, https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/ima...
Until this is sorted the best options are either to go closer to the town centre, eg the Brun Lea, or go uphill to the Hollywood Star which is adjacent to Hollywood Studios.
Burnley Artisan Market
By chance I was recently invited to take a stall at Burnley Artisan Market to promote my book about the town and its grammar school, Burnley. Having been written some years ago I realise it makes sense to show more recent work. Door Witch was ready to launch in summer 2021 but due to my wife's deteriorating health, it was held back. It is anime themed and I will be promoting it on 07/05/2022 at Burnley Artisan Market. For the many who have already bought copies of Burnley, I will be signing, so bring them in.
Jennifer, my beautiful but fierce wife passed away in February 2022. She became ill in autumn 2020 but due to COVID we delayed getting this checked; eventually there was a phone consultation. Her condition continued to deteriorate over November - December 2020 and she found it more and more difficult to breathe - so mid December 2020 I took her to A&E and then to the nearest hospital where she spent a week. January 2021 we learned there’d been a misdiagnosis; she had lung cancer and had already lost one lung. Treatment followed (chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy) but valuable time had already been lost. Jennifer passed away in February 2022. I am used to a busy house so even though I am of retirement age, the plight of the Ukrainians resonates with me; my mother was a refugee from the Soviets so I hope to house a refugee Ukrainian family.
Jennifer, my beautiful but fierce wife passed away in February 2022. She became ill in autumn 2020 but due to COVID we delayed getting this checked; eventually there was a phone consultation. Her condition continued to deteriorate over November - December 2020 and she found it more and more difficult to breathe - so mid December 2020 I took her to A&E and then to the nearest hospital where she spent a week. January 2021 we learned there’d been a misdiagnosis; she had lung cancer and had already lost one lung. Treatment followed (chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiotherapy) but valuable time had already been lost. Jennifer passed away in February 2022. I am used to a busy house so even though I am of retirement age, the plight of the Ukrainians resonates with me; my mother was a refugee from the Soviets so I hope to house a refugee Ukrainian family.
Facebook Book Pages
Hasiwriters started up again tonight - Hasiwriters being a writing group that meets in Haslingden Library every two weeks - after an absence of coming on for 5 years. I managed to get off early from work for this re-inaugural session. The group leader was Jim Taylor - a local poet of some repute and after introductions we got down to a 20 minutes writing session. A poet, a script writer, an activist (who smelt of tobacco) and two well-read, readers willing to give writing a go - plus myself. I have to concede my piece was hastily conceived and executed but it was a good to get to grips with writers meetings again.
When I got home I decided to check FB changes to FB pages, after concluding there was quite a lot of pruning to do, I made a list; so this is how my FB pages currently stand:
Door Witch
The Turning Stone
The Slow Holocaust
Burnley
The Tau Device
Silt From Distant Lands
A Guide to First Contact
Unfinished Tales
Ice Made and other stories
Lucky
Terence Park
Burnley (1st)
The Turning Stone Chronicles
My Writing Blog
When I got home I decided to check FB changes to FB pages, after concluding there was quite a lot of pruning to do, I made a list; so this is how my FB pages currently stand:
Door Witch
The Turning Stone
The Slow Holocaust
Burnley
The Tau Device
Silt From Distant Lands
A Guide to First Contact
Unfinished Tales
Ice Made and other stories
Lucky
Terence Park
Burnley (1st)
The Turning Stone Chronicles
My Writing Blog
