My recent return from the dead

Thankyou to those who have read and re-read Propinquity over the years, and kept the flame alive.

For a novel with such a disastrous publishing history (about 600 copies were distributed before the publisher collapsed), Propinquity has certainly generated a large band of loyalists.

I don't know what to make of the comments about it being "the first conspiracy fiction novel" - as the novel's conspiracy plotline was (to me) less important than my necessarily failed attempt to express the inexpressible. I've read The Da Vinci Code (but no others in the modern conspiracy genre). I thought Dan Brown had a pretty good handle on structure. In book, as in film, this is the hardest element by far to get right - & he did largely get it right.

As you can see from my bio, I've been living from journalism for some years. (All these writings are on my website.) But I am contemplating another novel. The ideas have been orbiting me for a year or so, like the cloud of gnats which followed Jacob of Nisibis to the Council of Nicea, in 325 AD. This was where the rot - the rot in the Christian Church that myself & now other writers have pointed to - set in.

That's an oblique way of saying the new novel might be a Propinquity sequel - something I'd thought impossible till the recent gnat attack.