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[Andre Jute]

There are new articles on my blog:
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/

“It is liberating to know that by Memorial Day you may be gorily dead.”

Dan Wood on Mickey Thompson: “Bonneville, where hairy-chested members of both sexes overdose on speed”

Scofflaw Cyclists in Scofflaw City

[Sharon]

I posted a new piece on our Boomers and Books group blog:


Spring Fever... Err, make that Summer...

[Sharon]

New book review on our Boomers and Books blog post: http://bit.ly/1cuUBo8

A beautiful, beautiful book in every way. Alas, I believe it is out of print.

[Andre Jute]

My editor is resorting to the sangria.
The hard life of an editor 2: Wolves on the Cote d’Azur
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[Andre Jute]

The hard life of an editor 3: Darkness overtakes us
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[Sharon]

The future is here. What's next?

New piece on our Boomers and Books Blog Post:

http://boomersandbooks.wordpress.com/...

[Andre Jute]

Since I last mentioned my blog here, there have been several new entries, starting here:
The hard life of an editor 4: The dual-purpose churchyard
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and followed by
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Life is a bad comedy by a celestial scriptwriter with horns
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Archetype starts on the Hero’s Journey
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THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC LEPRECHAUN HUNT, part 2
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

Good heavens, hadn't realized there is so much of it.

[Sharon]

Good posts. You have been busy!

[Andre Jute]

New and different on my blog.

http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[J.A.]

You paint too? Nice.

[Andre Jute]

I've just recently taken it up again. Long ago I was a portrait painter for a while and had shows in London and New York, but I didn't like the people who bought my paintings, so I went back to the theatre and eventually, unable to stand the actors for the second time, I ended up with the much more agreeable gentlemen publishers. Ironically, at my publishers of record, Secker, the head man had been an art critic, and Klee and Picasso and so on hung in the stairwells.

There's a self-portrait here http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar... that I'm using as an avatar on a cycling conference.

[Andre Jute]

Crocosmia “Mobius”
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[Andre Jute]

John Tavener: A continuum bridge to God
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[J.A.]

Very fascinating takes on what his art means and represents.

[Sharon]

I love how you make your observations, Andre. We may tweak you now and again, but we all know you have earned your chops as a writer.

Thanks for a wonderful piece on a wonderful man.

[Andre Jute]

I'll take apple sauce with my chops.

[Andre Jute]

Interview: Matt Posner, author of How to Write Dialogue http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[Sharon]

A very good interview, from both sides.

Best of luck for the book, Matt, and for all your books!

[J.A.]

Good interview.

I had to LOL a bit about the Elfstones. I remember the plot of the book, but nothing else, as it was back when I was in fifth grade. Some time ago.

[Andre Jute]

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION FOR ALL WRITERS

To celebrate the reissue of
A CRIME OF INFLUENCE*,
Andre Jute’s screenplay from his novel
AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS,

Hidalga Erenas reviews
“The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”
by Christopher Vogler
Part 2: The Hero’s Journey

http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[Andre Jute]

AFRICAN REVENGE by ANDREW MCCOY: Internationally acclaimed thriller hits ebooks for first time, starts series
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...

[Andre Jute]

J. A. Beard on Dialogue
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[Andre Jute]

RUTHLESS TO WIN OMNIBUS ONE hits bestseller lists within minutes of launch
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[Andre Jute]

Quite a few new entries on my  blog , among them a review by Matt Posner of J. A. Beard's innovative Mind Crafter, and a review by James Everington of Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. Also an entry where you can click through to get free books by a whole bunch of best-seller authors at Cookie's Book Club Annual Christmas Giveaway. Sue McLarty, who runs this bonanza for readers and writers must be very popular, judging by the quality of writers she attracts. Enjoy. 

[J.A.]

I'll hsve to check out Wonderbook.

[Andre Jute]

CORDON BLUE FOR CAMPERS: “Skippy makes good BBQ”

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[Sharon]

Kench! I laughed especially hard at the story in the comments about the man-eating anaconda...

[Andre Jute]

You're wicked, you are, Sharon.

[Andre Jute]

#IDITAROD POST MORTEM: A RACE WON, A RACE LOST by Andre Jute http://bit.ly/1nHSQeE #iditarod2014 @thrillsjute pic.twitter.com/rOUeD3DyqG

A blog about why after the most exciting Iditarod in a whole row of exciting races, I'm brassed off.

[Jim]

my blog is http://interdependentscience.blogspot... which rambles quite a bit but the main focus is the intersection of Buddhism, Philosophy of Science, and the on-going collapse of global industrial civilization.

[Andre Jute]

Welcome, Jim!

[J.A.]

Welcome, Jim.

[Sharon]

Nice to have a new voice on here, Jim. Welcome!

[Ian]

My blog is at spinneyhead.co.uk/spinneyhead-blog/. It's occasionally about my writing, but is just as likely to contain photos, rants or interesting links.

[Andre Jute]

Where I rode my bicycle.
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[Andre Jute]

The Bandon River, on which I live, is one of the places the Whooper Swans overwinter. I often ride out on either of the two roads that flank the field on which they sit. You can get very close on one road, where cars have accustomed them to noise and people, and on the other you can look down on them with binoculars. But you shouldn't conclude from this painting's name that it is a realistic rendition of a Whooper; it isn't, it is an allegory, a Whooper crossed with Dante's Inferno, and I've crossbred it with a snow goose from some vague notion that a snow goose wouldn't like the heat of Sodom & Gomorrah. The mind of a literarily inclined artist is awfully confused— er, I mean subtle.


Andre Jute: SuperWhooper Escapes the Isle of the Damned, acrylic on canvas, 2014, 6x8in

[K.A.]

I like birds, and paintings of birds.

[Andre Jute]

Why my editor ran away to the South of France and Tuscany.
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[Andre Jute]

“Stupid books and stupid rumors!” — Marialena Sarris
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[Andre Jute]

“Lovers and enemies alike have their price.”
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Festival

[Andre Jute]

New on my blog: Snakes by Lavis

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[Andre Jute]

Gorse on the Left,
Gorse on Right.
Into the Moat of Thorns
Rides the Cyclist.
(with apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

See
http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/ar...
for the romantic painting accompanying this epic poem.