Hellish work
I'm going to go back to Satanism. I don't mean personally, but plot-wise. Nothing scared me as a kid more than The Exorcist and The Omen did. And the reason was that there's something horribly plausible about the Devil and all his works...
My next novel has the working title of The Lazarus Prophecy. My premise is that Lazarus was a sinner, judged and found wanting and that the real miracle was Christ returning him not just from the dead, but from hell.
Lazarus learned something there of Satan's plans for mankind and returns with a dire warning that reverberates down the centuries to our own time.
I've just finished writing a novel (The Memory of Trees) and need a bit of a break before starting another. But I'm excited about the potential of Prophecy, some of which will be set in Victorian London. I'll start it just as soon as the cramp departs my two abused typing fingers and my sore back loosens up a bit.
My first two F.G. novels were satanically themed and I'm really looking forward to going back and getting very, very dark.
My next novel has the working title of The Lazarus Prophecy. My premise is that Lazarus was a sinner, judged and found wanting and that the real miracle was Christ returning him not just from the dead, but from hell.
Lazarus learned something there of Satan's plans for mankind and returns with a dire warning that reverberates down the centuries to our own time.
I've just finished writing a novel (The Memory of Trees) and need a bit of a break before starting another. But I'm excited about the potential of Prophecy, some of which will be set in Victorian London. I'll start it just as soon as the cramp departs my two abused typing fingers and my sore back loosens up a bit.
My first two F.G. novels were satanically themed and I'm really looking forward to going back and getting very, very dark.
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Feb 21, 2013 02:03AM
Sounds awesome! Can't wait to return to the darkness with you.
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ditto - you're a master of the genre and it'll be great to read you back on such familiar ground.
I can't wait to read that book. It sounds like it will be awesome.
Please, please something dark, sinister and Victorian. :)
Victorian London, my two favorite words for describing a book's setting!
Sounds great! And something for your research...there's a book called To Hell And Back by Maurice Rawlings. Rawlings was a cardiologist/nonbeliever until he spoke with patients who had had Near Death Experiences...unlike those reported in the work of most writers on the subject, many of his patients reported having gone to hell. In other words, all NDE's are not about seeing Grandma and Elvis. While his rather evangelical spirituality is not my own I appreciated his clinical approach and willingness to write about such a controversial topic. You may find it worth a look. Interesting too that The Exorcist was based upon a true account although they altered location, identities etc for the film...the funniest and maybe the scariest things are but exaggerations of what's real... Meanwhile...very much looking forward to Prophecy...!!
Rock on, dude. Throw some Hieronymus Bosch-like portraits of hell on the cover and I'm sure it'll be a winner. You're my new favorite author and I'll read whatever you write. (That is not a compliment given lightly from the jaded reader that I am).
What of "The Memory Of Trees"? Will we hear more of that here?
The Memory of Trees is a novel I finished just over a week ago. I'm pressing on straight away with Prophecy because the force seems to be with me just now.If you google F.G. Cottam Memory of Trees there's some info about it on Amazon. It's published by Severn House and comes out in late June here and in I believe in what you call the Fall (and we call Autumn) in the States.
It's set mostly on a remote Welsh coastal wilderness and I sincerely hope it's as enjoyable to read as it was to write.
Thanks for the info F.G. I'll be looking for it.
Oh get down to the chemist and get some back rub and finger plasters and get started soon! It sounds a fantastic idea.
I have started it! My back loosens up when I run and it's when I'm running that I get all my story development ideas. I'm doing 7 miles and a minimum 1,000 words a day.
Wow on both of those achievements!
Can you strap a keyboard onto a treadmill? .....just asking....
Ha! That made me laugh out loud, Chris. But I run outdoors, so it wouldn't help. My agent emailed today having read the opening 25 pages and said it's the strongest writing I've done. Early days - that's only the opening chapter - but encouraging just the same. And you don't look old enough to be a grandfather...
Thanks, F.G.! I certainly don't act old enough--or so I am told. My friend Martin really enjoys your work and I am looking forward to reading The Colony. I can't seem to get Broadmaw Bay on kindle here in the states.
In theory they're all available on kindle. I'll have to take that up with the publisher. The Colony isn't a bad place to start, though. It has some formatting errors but is priced quite cheaply (so that people will sample it)and I think offers a fair amount of entertainment and scares for what it costs. Your friend Martin is a voracious reader so I'm really flattered he likes my stuff.
I hate it when that happens. I just checked again and I can only get it in a regular book, not ebook. Maybe soon. No worries-- I will just start at the beginning with House of Lost Souls.
"Victorian London"--perfect! Very much anticipating all the new novels!
