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Stuart Ayris - The Truth About Trees
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Kath
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Oct 10, 2013 02:03PM
Nice one! ;)
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Well it's with my two Beta readers and Ignite - thus does my little pink pygmy elephant fly!
Here's the blurb by the way: “The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to the coastal area of Sabah…”
That’s the exact area of Borneo to which I was travelling. It couldn’t be that bad. I’d have a tour guide and a driver with me. It’s just jungles and monkeys anyway, isn’t it?
Little did I know then that it wasn’t terrorists that I should have been warned about, but the entire unravelling of my senses.
The Buddhas of Borneo takes the reader on a five day journey across North Eastern Borneo, from Prisoner of War Camps to Buddhist Temples, Batcaves and Jungle Retreats. But nothing is as it seems - particularly on Turtle Island…
Ah, now I get the pink pygmy elephant reference!
Now
is out, I have begun work on my next full length novel - Edward Jarvis Huggins. It is set in 1744 and is about a man who was born in a barn...
Just to report that I am now over 11,000 words into my next novel - The Magical, Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins. I like it very much. Just another 69,000 words to go. I hope to have it finished by the end of the summer and looking for a November 2014 release.
I have had two beta readers read the first three chapters and the feedback has been lovely so far.
So onwards!
or into madness (which seems to be the general direction!)
although I have to say that already it is by far (in my humble opinion) the best thing I have written - which is handy!
it's set in the early to mid eighteenth century - so a little like Tollesbury is now!Can't wait to read yours by the way!
Oh, you show me yours and I'll show you mine - blush!
I've already bought yours and will be reading it when I've finished BJ's The Saving (which is brilliant by the way!)
Here is the latest excerpt from The Magical, Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins:"So he trudged and he tramped, he slept in fields, he scavenged for food and he hid in the putrid shadows of existence - weary, hungry and sober. When you’ve lost everything, you can either fade and fold or you can burn, burn, burn, all madsad and perpetual, intent upon a single definable goal that becomes the very essence of your heartbeatings. Joe was not for fading and folding - not this time. He was for burning like you wouldn’t believe."
Bet it gives your spellchecker the heebie-jeebies though!
they didn't have spellcheckers in the 1740s so I feel entirely justified in writing just whatever I want ;-)
Shakespeare's with you on that one... Fun times on KDP (for you, not Will).
always fun times!I am convinced that this will easily be my best book - I do believe I am improving!
So do I - I'd like to think we all are! :)
yep! And what's great is that this is a long old game! Who knows what the future might hold for any of us?!
This is so true, Lord Ayris of Tollesbury!
Hah! The new book is set in Kent so I'm spreading my wings!
Up from the top? (i.e. no room for improvement from where I'm sitting)I know what you mean though - I get that feeling with my own writing.
well, 17000 words now written for my new novel. It's a-moving and a-grooving in just the right direction and I like it very much.
Stuart wrote: "I think it may be!"'Course!
Bringing the laptop next weekend to carry on with it. When you're on a roll you just have to keep on rolling...
Yep! Know that feeling! The way you're rolling it'll be almost done by next Saturday!
Well just finished Chapter 7 so that's just about 20 or so to go!
Three a day...Do you write in a linear fashion, or do you write as inspiration dictates, or are they one and the same for you?
just when the mood takes me to be honest. There's certainly no fashion about it, linear or otherwise!
Another excerpt from The Magical, Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins:"The sun had arisen all rhubarb and custard, splayed across the fields like a surly whore who knew she was worth much more than all of this. The collared doves turned their collared necks in unison, regarding the young boy as he stood at the closed door of the shed. They watched as he knocked and when the door opened they took off into the air, one at a time as if tied together by an unseen rope, whirling and unfurling skywards before landing silently once again in the exact same place - as if they had never even moved at all. That’s how life is. That’s just exactly how life is.
Do the hip-shake baby. Do the hip-shake baby."
Did Stuart mention he is appearing for one day only at the Goodreads get-together? No - probably too shy...(hmm)https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
One day? One day, followed by one night, followed by the next morning!
I'm going to start writing Chapter Nine of The Magical, Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins tonight.Chapter Eight is called "Shuddershakes in the Land of the Wow" - which kind of tells you where this book is heading...
The moon on a stick, The Red Lion's rooftop lollipop...not like the Tollesbury skies, he said. They would be so full of stars if we were there right now, and I wondered if they were playing a game of Hide and Seek while they waited for us.You reminded me!
My head! When we were sitting at the back of the pub, you were telling me about Shuddershakes... and I was staring at the moon and you waxed Tollesbury lyrical!
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