Call for Urban short stories for Flaneur ebook
Yes the rumours are true! The Flaneur is heading into the exciting realm of ebook publishing. We are looking for short stories under the theme Urban Shorts. This can be interpreted in any way that [...]
View ArticleNew ebook of urban short stories: Urban Shorts – free today
Urban shorts ebook published today! The Flaneur’s first ebook of short stories, Urban Shorts is published today on Amazon. It is a collection of nine stories set in and around the city, from the...
View ArticleNovels and ‘the holy contour of life’
In his 30 point Belief and Technique for modern prose Jack Kerouac exhorts writers to ‘Believe in the holy contour of life’ and to be ‘Writer-Director of earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in...
View ArticleLadyFest: An Editor’s Perspective
While I did want to write something about the challenges of being an editor, I also want to take this opportunity to shout about the e-book I have been involved with producing. LadyFest: Winning...
View ArticleIndie Book Kids Snapping at the Heels of Cash Cows By Kirsty Fox
It’s long been nerd-cool to covet indie film and music, shop in indie stores and guffaw knowingly when someone quotes a little Chris Morris’ schtick. So it seems apt and overdue for indie-books to...
View ArticleReview: The Metropolis Organism by Frank Vitale
The metaphor of the city as organic matter is by no means a new one. In ancient Greece, Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, compared classical Athens to a tangle of wool with the insistence that all...
View ArticleThe Literary Travelogue, Reinvented
No two industries have been more disrupted by the internet than travel and publishing. We travel more independently now, but no more wisely. We read more widely, but no more deeply, because most of...
View ArticleThe Ninth Orphan by James and Lance Morcan
If you’re a fan of international conspiracy thrillers in the vein of James Bond and James Bourne – and you like your action fast and furious – this latest offering from father and son writing [...]
View ArticleDogtooth Chronicals – A love affair between shaggy dogs and improper vowels
“If the apocalypse comes tomorrow, I’ll meet you in the pub.” On the eve of waiting for the delivery of 500 paperback copies of my debut novel, I ponder how many people will tell me [...]
View ArticleReview of “The Weeping Empress”
A fantasy epic set in an alternative universe alongside (or crooked) to ours, Sadie Forsythe illustrates the journey of a young woman called Chiyo and her relationship with violence and destiny. Chiyo...
View ArticleI Write the Bee Sides…
Trawling junk shops, getting covered in chalk & charcoal, scavenging for a drum kit. These are probably not the usual activities of someone preparing for a book launch. But with seismic changes...
View ArticleFirst Look: The Greater Thief
The day the man at the end of the road got shot was a fairy tale day. It was a day I’d spent in another world wondering if my prince would trot round the corner [...]
View ArticleWriter’s Block…
WRITER’S BLOCK Roxanne Ratcliffe, Next to Nowhere The empty white page bleeds to an empty white world. I’m walking and yet there’s nothing. The pale sky merges to the pale snowy landscape, except there...
View ArticleAn Idea – An Extract from Dogtooth Chronicals
AN IDEA Wolfgang, Dreamscape Beneath my feet the cold ground is hardened. There were ridges ploughed into the Earth long ago, when it was soft and giving. Now it is as concrete, desperate to trip [...]
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