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R J Askew ~ One Swift Summer
Gatsby fever, old sport .. ach, the things one has to do .. http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
I tweet you not .. R.J.Askew@R_J_Askew10s
I say my pearly queen, pass the jellied eels while I read this bangin' book review of #gatsby tally ho #Wigan ! >>http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... …
people seem to love or hate #gatsby .. here's some insights into the book http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... … #review #blog
the books are normally better than the film .. I dunno if this will apply to Gatsby .. anyway here's a careful reading of the original .. I was reading as a writer studying another's trickery .. http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... … #review #blog
I put my back into reviewing.Have a look at my Gatsby review .. contact me if you want me to review you.
Experience suggests I won't get any requests. Surprise me.
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What? Who was that masked man??
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I'm definitely one of those 200 downloads :)
Hi R.J.!!!Congrats on the new book!!! Hope everythings going well!
Loved September Ends - and Watching Swifts too of course!
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http://amzn.to/1aiXcSg .. only 6 more working days left for me then freeeeeeedom .. http://amzn.to/1aiXcSg .. to read more and write more
So, was the London Book Fair worth the visit? Yes. If only to see the Indie Collective's stall. To become a member you need to have published 10 books. I suppose this suggests that hyper-activity is a good thing. I came away with an armful of freebies, too. They are all 6x9" format. Hmm, maybe I should review my liking for 5x8" book format. 6x9 books feel more like books on management theory than novels to me. Also, all the covers had a generic feel to them. Not a one of the covers on the stall really bossed my eye. But then I have a problem with covers. I noticed a couple of other things which will prove useful if I ever go for a pbook offering. Needless to say, none of the agents I tried to get face time with responded. Not that I expected them to.
Tweeting again after a 6-mo layoff. Pointless to resume of course, but I'm having one of those regrettable lapsess. The 1,200 word blog I'm tweeting into is - even by my standards - the biggest load of bowlocks ever. Luckily no one will read it. Not that I have a reputation to be damaged anyway. Excuse me while I take myself off to administer a little light self-flagellation. It's cheaper than Madam Whiplash. And anyway she's barred me from her emporium as - she says - I moan far too much. Personally, I reckon her refusal to do business with me is some kind of intensely cunning domination gambit of the kind that temperamental chess grandmasters routinely deploy. September Again
RJ, I think you should visit my Dark and Mysterious Late Night thread and have a few drinks. Theres lots of mysterious and interesting people there...
A new story will be out from me tmr, Monday 5th of May. IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS. A 23,000 word novella, set in London and Hampshire. 3 kids escape everything kids want to escape and find a better way down among the watercress and nightingales. Just two sweet verses in this one, with a little guidance from John Keats. And to keep you interested there's a strange little menage a trois at the heart of matters. And a death. And a desertion. And is that the Celtic hippie woman looking over the meadow at us? IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS on Amazon tmr. *bows*
This song helped me to write my new story .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDkKyB... .. the lyrics to the song stir me. And I love the passion of Stevie Nicks. The lyrics have a hold over me, as does the name of Rhiannon, the powerful white witch of Celtic legend. 'Will you ever win, Rhi-annnnnnn-on, Rhi-annnnnnn-on.' The Rhi of legend is a strong-willed, other-worldly woman. I love everything about her. She exccites. How would her modern equivalent be? 'Rhi-annnnnn-on, Rhi-annnnnnn-on.' Shall we all to Avalon? Shall we escape the tyranny of fact based reality for a jaunt into older dream states? My Rhi will be out on Amazon on Tues May 5th. Look for IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS please. Txs.
Profound THANKS to the kind reader who spotted the literal in my IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS pitch. Tis fixed.
IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS has just left the nest, like a fluffy newbie fledgling. Novella, 23,000 words.Coming of age story of escape from London. Three kids in a menage a trois find a better way among the watercress and nightingales of Hampshire.
Fleetwood Mac's Rhiannon and John Keats' ODE TO NIGHTINGALE feature throughout, as do elements from L'MORTE D'ARTHUR. Death, strange love, fortune seized, desertion. And beauty, there has to be beauty.
And so to Avalon! or should that be Brazil and the World Cup? Will Rhiannon the fey win?
Here's the pitch .. not exactly a conventional pitch, but who cares? The last two lines are all ...
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A TAPESTRY HEART
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Fly with Rhi to Avalon found,
Where nightingales sing in packs of three,
And green watercress gleams
In the light of old dream-versing moon.
And you are young silk for time out of mind,
In a vision of love made pleasingly free.
And your life is a yarn in a tapestry heart -
With a never-ending need, to be read and to read.
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IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS
Best of luck with that R.J. - hope she flies high!
Txs very much GEP! Hope all well with you. *bows*
R.J. wrote: "Txs very much GEP! Hope all well with you. *bows*"Thank you sir :) And with you.
The beauty and magic of watercress .. and other important truths revealed > here >> https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
I clicked on your link, and it said 'only the author of this blog can do that'.What WERE you up to??
I really, really REALLY stupidly got the link from the blog in preview mode .. I am a total numpty. I write THE best blog I've ever done and then send a dozen tweets directing people to something the cld not see!! AGGGGGG!I've fixed it now, but discredited myself.
Ah thats better. Ok, off to read it now.
Interesting - I am planning to move from the concrete of Dublin to the rural delights of Warwickshire at some stage soon. Maybe I'll take up watercress...
Gingerlily - Elephant Philosopher wrote: "Interesting - I am planning to move from the concrete of Dublin to the rural delights of Warwickshire at some stage soon. Maybe I'll take up watercress..."By the way THANK YOU very much for tipping me off that the link was a dud. I was tweeting away like a lunatic and scratching my head when the views on the blog kept showing a big fat zero! Watercress is definitely a thing of tasty beauty. I dunno if it is cultivated in Warks though. An excellent place to move to though!
Well maybe I will be a pioneer of watercress there :)
ha ha, I'm having some cracking fun strewing tweets around .. I swear, twitter is a gannet colony cubed. Peck, peck, scream, peck. The conditions of life there are atrocious! And, ew! the stink, dahlings. I tweet you not, it's a cage fight. Every second person there is a Buymybook. Excuse me, I feel another tweet dying to scream from me. (And this from the man who owns, actually owns the website called http://itweetyounot.com/ )
excuse me though, pls, pls don't go looking at http://itweetyounot.com/ .. it's stuffed with really mad stuff .. tis my peppery new novella IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS to which I crave, beg, spin plates while balancing on a labrador's nose, beseech you to have butcher's gander at .. that's .. IN THE ROOM WITH THREE DOORS .. it's reet tasty! s'truth!
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