tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89968413832495185982024-02-18T23:01:34.095-08:00Batteries aren't includedNews, views and occasional reviews by Charlie Wade, author of Seven Daze.Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-9592659566441051112021-11-11T07:27:00.000-08:002021-11-11T07:27:32.226-08:00Released <p> Finally got around to finishing The Last Gang in Town and put it on Amazon </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09H3L2J48">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B09H3L2J48</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The cover is the same as the last post. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-83719585221210693812021-09-21T04:45:00.000-07:002021-09-21T04:45:50.775-07:00The Last Gang in Town<p> Had a bit of a break, but The Last Gang in Town is about ready to be released.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy-5eCJiBHLHmIBIau7UsfSjr7bAYD6abWaRlLLpgSCVhOEio6vBRrn9G1TaB7Dn7xRKE4hoJWJ4K4ICR9dIro6TmJJyOzhpY7g3BlixGn_NSvhxV62A51LwqMpWlIpD2xSYshZqnfyA/s1206/last+gang+4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="1206" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy-5eCJiBHLHmIBIau7UsfSjr7bAYD6abWaRlLLpgSCVhOEio6vBRrn9G1TaB7Dn7xRKE4hoJWJ4K4ICR9dIro6TmJJyOzhpY7g3BlixGn_NSvhxV62A51LwqMpWlIpD2xSYshZqnfyA/w737-h363/last+gang+4.png" width="737" /></a></div><br /><p>I changed the cover slightly. The Bailout was red so decided on a yellowy type colour this time. Should be a few more days to finalise then it's ready.</p><p>I mentioned before I am writing a bit on and off, well I still am. Not sure if anything will come of the current book (it's about three quarters done). There's another 2 books in my head that will have to get written at some point, but when is anyone's guess..<br /></p>Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-71245083578526690862021-04-20T06:59:00.002-07:002021-04-20T06:59:44.856-07:00Book Cover<p> Seemed to lose two months there. </p><p></p><p>Anyway,</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WS5wy0-bN4b9TplrafYBBINq5b22iWnu7UJzp0FK0COkxBVteaoBhiQbyXYVnEqJ_NilMDH7NNR5xlYktx2n-UfKNmzdRjx5XEH09qGmdseYEkAdiScpMQOaSm7s_T2dSD-_1D4iLi0/s2048/last+gang+1+crop+bood.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1281" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WS5wy0-bN4b9TplrafYBBINq5b22iWnu7UJzp0FK0COkxBVteaoBhiQbyXYVnEqJ_NilMDH7NNR5xlYktx2n-UfKNmzdRjx5XEH09qGmdseYEkAdiScpMQOaSm7s_T2dSD-_1D4iLi0/s320/last+gang+1+crop+bood.png" /></a></div><br /><p>First stab at crooked spire with a bit of blood type sky for book cover. Needs redoing to get the bleed lines more accurately and cross at top. Haven't done anything like this before, but watched a few youtube videos and did it in Gimp and wasn't as hard as I thought.<br /></p><p>Bookwise, just about to read it again a few more times to pick out any annoying typos. Also doing a bit of other writing every now and then.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-78987329511649766042021-02-19T04:52:00.001-08:002021-02-19T04:52:43.153-08:00The Last Gang in Town<p> Nearly finished the rewrite for The Last Gang in Town. It was originally written six to seven years ago and things like Brexit and whatever have meant it needed a good rewrite. It's a police procedural but does have a bit of humour. It stems originally from a novella I wrote called DI Cliche, but that was many yeas and at least two rewrites ago.</p><p>Thinking about the cover and blurb now. As it's set it Chesterfield the cover should include the crooked spire. Turns out I've got thousands of photos I've taken over the years but none of the spire. This one from pixabay is good. <a href="https://pixabay.com/images/id-2397026/" target="_blank">https://pixabay.com/images/id-2397026/</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMd59LqIpUPTes3TImVjn4QLdI78__IDy8Pel9TRwW436VxoclBTF-NS6iC8BeTaeEOBZc8fvhUPgPUglEzwF7lHSA1kVVqcPNe1IDwJhkqQKo5EeJPKN0TzHPiW8E5Orzv7-cWQQu6E/s2048/chesterfield-2397026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1560" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsMd59LqIpUPTes3TImVjn4QLdI78__IDy8Pel9TRwW436VxoclBTF-NS6iC8BeTaeEOBZc8fvhUPgPUglEzwF7lHSA1kVVqcPNe1IDwJhkqQKo5EeJPKN0TzHPiW8E5Orzv7-cWQQu6E/w305-h400/chesterfield-2397026.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><p></p><p>Of course it needs to be darker like is the tradition for police procedurals. As for the book blurb, I'm kind of thinking about it. DI Britwell is a miserable old sod, more asthmatic than charismatic, who communicates mainly via grunts, sighs and head shakes. Yeah, something like that should do it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-29939990827928064032021-02-01T12:17:00.003-08:002021-02-03T05:44:58.855-08:00Been a long time <p> So it's been a while since I last posted. I decided to take a year off writing in 2016 and before I'd noticed 4 years had flown by.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all the lockdowns and staying in and that the past year, I have started writing again. At first I wasn't enjoying it, then the enthusiasm, for want of a better word, came back. Anyway nearly finished a book now, but don't know if anything will come of it. 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I’ve just published <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cutters-Fall-Cutter-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B01G0LUYGW/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cutter’sFall</i></a> – the final novella in my north-east gangster trilogy – as well as the
combined <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cutter Trilogy</i>. The ebooks
are selling really well at the moment, and I’m currently pulling together a
paperback edition which will be out soon.</div>
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Next up should be a brutal serial-killer thriller novel –
provisionally called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Last Weekend</i>
– that lies somewhere between Agatha Christie’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">And Then There Were None</i> and a slasher horror flick. It’s been a
work in progress for quite some time now, but the latest draft should be off to
my editor very soon.</div>
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It’s something I’ve always done since I was little – I
started writing my first novel when I was around seven. I remember feeling a
sense of surprise when I discovered there were people who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t</i> write – for me it’s as natural as breathing. I suppose it’s
about looking at the world from different viewpoints and trying to make sense
of things. That and trying to provoke a reaction, to make the reader feel
something as a result of reading a story, whether that means they love or hate
a particular character. That emotional connection is vital.</div>
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I don’t really have a special writing space; I probably
write most often on my laptop just sitting on the settee in the front room. I’m
lucky in that I live on the coast and have a great view from that seat – even
though at the moment the sea and the sky are a uniform grey and it’s raining, I
can still see the lighthouse, and the waves crashing over the pier. When it’s
dark, I get to see the lights on the boats sailing into the harbour and on good
days, when the view is mostly blue and white, the yacht club often comes out to
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Yes, sometimes. On occasion the real world can be so much
more fucked up than anything the most twisted crime writer can dream up. For
example, one story I wrote was inspired by a supposedly true anecdote I was
told about someone being strangled with barbed wire. Gordon Cutter – the
vicious crime boss in my novella series – was at least partly influenced by
real-life counterparts who should probably remain nameless. Like most writers,
I think, I’ll read or hear something in the news, and then the ‘what if?’ factor
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It never seems like it. It’s at least partly because in my ‘everyday’
profession I’m a ghostwriter, editor and proofreader; so having spent the day
working on other people’s words it’s sometimes an effort to make progress on my
own! But it’s worth the effort, whether that’s adding a thousand words to a
work in progress, or just scribbling down a perfect five-word character
description that’s just popped into your head.</div>
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For leisure and pleasure I tend to read crime,
sci-fi/fantasy and horror. Favourite writers include Philip K Dick, Kurt
Vonnegut, Roger Zelazny, Ian Rankin and Stephen King.</div>
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Either – it’s the story that matters, not the format. Ebooks
arguably allow more flexibility in book length, which can be positive for both
writers and readers. A traditional publisher of physical books wouldn’t
generally touch a short novella, for example, but some of my most successful
ebooks have been shorter than novel length.</div>
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If you enjoy police procedurals, I can recommend Chris
Simms’ DI John Spicer series. They’re meticulously researched, very well
plotted, and Spicer is a great character. I was late to the party with these,
but that meant there were a bunch of books to go at once I’d found them. I’m
currently reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleeping Dogs</i>,
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What were you thinking?</div>
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Amazon author page: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Julie-Morrigan/e/B005O1XOY4">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Julie-Morrigan/e/B005O1XOY4</a></div>
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Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-30649804287190932932016-05-23T05:41:00.002-07:002016-05-23T05:41:08.965-07:00Greenhouse mkIIJust like a Ford Cortina, sometimes mk II surpasses the original. Not true of all sequels of course, Jaws, Star Wars etc, nowhere near the original.<br />
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Last year, I polythened the old greenhouse thing on the allotment and it survived the summer but not the winter.<br />
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Early this year, work began on rebuilding. Firstly I gave it a coat of bargain shop wood preserve then fixed the door and one front side panel.<br />
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Then, someone kindly gave me a load of polycarbonate sheets. I was originally going to use thicker plastic sheet, but the polycarbonate panels are much stronger and easier to fit.<br />
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A few weeks later and a bit of bracing and it's getting there.<br />
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Finally, about ten days ago, the job was finished. It maybe needs a bit more bracing and sealing, but it's workable for the summer.<br />
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From the other side. Note the glass has somehow stayed intact for over five years. The end panels were all I had to replace on this side.<br />
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Finally, four days after fixing it, I fell over a gate while chasing the dog after she escaped, and I broke my big toe.<br />
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A week after doggate, I'm still not able to walk unsupported and so far have been nowhere near the allotment. Part of the bone that's fractured (turn away if you're queasy) has rotated 90 degrees so the Doc said it will be at least six to eight weeks before it's healed, maybe longer if it doesn't set right. I'm hoping in a few weeks I'll be able to go up the allotment and do light duties. Until then, the new greenhouse remains empty.Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-59552371007890666582016-03-22T12:29:00.000-07:002016-03-22T12:29:00.818-07:00Back again in the allotmentSpring is finally here, bringing with it the promise of produce and a bad back from the allotment. Having got slightly ahead this year (or at least more ahead than in previous years) it's not the big rush it has sometimes been. So what's up the plot at the moment ?<br />
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So that's it for now. Nothing earth shattering, just getting things ready really. I did plant some broad bean seeds but they haven't come up yet so there was no point taking a picture. And sorry, but there's no shed or greenhouse picture this time. The greenhouse will be rebuilt, possibly over the may bank holiday, but maybe before if I get my act together.</div>
<br />Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-18053498879884329092016-03-06T05:37:00.001-08:002016-03-06T05:37:35.727-08:00Short Book Review - Dead Money by Ray BanksDouble glazing salesman, Alan, and his buddy, Beale, limp from one
disaster to the next as alcoholism, a dead dog, and gambling debts drag Beale down and Alan with him.<br />
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urban novel. Set in Manchester, it's the side of life rarely seen. Alan is a great character, and you have to feel for him at the end despite all of his bad choices. All
is believable and told in Ray Banks' unique and enjoyable style.<br />
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4.5 out of 5 <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Money-Ray-Banks-ebook/dp/B00GWGYDZO/" target="_blank"> www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Money-Ray-Banks-ebook/dp/B00GWGYDZO/</a>Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-84173615430397911332016-02-26T08:06:00.003-08:002016-02-26T08:06:42.625-08:00Writing againSo I've written about another 20,000 words since the last writing update [insert: 'some of them in the right order' joke here] I was going to list (out of the five books on the go) what is now at what length, but I'm probably better off by giving a time scale when each will be finished...<br />
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<b>Last Gang in Town</b> - few more months as rewrites not as quick as just writing.<br />
<b>Sausage Roll Spy book</b> (pie vs spy 2) - about October to November. The unstarted third spy book (working title <b>Quiches Are Forever</b>) should be mid next year.<br />
<b>Flu</b> - part one about Christmas, the entire 1,000,000 words probably by 2020<br />
<b>The Bailout 2: Tracer</b> - Yeah I started a sequel to The Bailout a few weeks ago. It's set in roughly 2018, which gives the newish dystopian Britain from The Bailout a chance to calm down and get in a routine (as Dystopia's like to). Probably ready next year sometime.<br />
<b>The Debt Collector book</b> - this is the next police procedural featuring the same DI as in Last Gang in Town. Ready back end of next yearish.<br />
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Here's a picture of the inside of my shed featuring not only a recently put up shelf, but also a part made 'Trug' made from old pallets (it's in the lower half of the photo).<br />
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Trugs are actually quite easy to make. I saw plans for one in a gardening magazine and slightly adapted it (ie sawed the wood incorrectly) and have started collecting wood for a few others - thought I might sell them at a car boot sale or give them away for gardening relatives for xmas.<br />
Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-3790387621084980392016-02-09T00:10:00.000-08:002016-02-11T22:33:42.616-08:00Spacey's People I've got a short story up at Spelk today, Spacey's People.<br />
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<br />Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-46509091970064048642016-01-26T07:35:00.000-08:002016-01-26T07:35:03.841-08:00The Allotment AgainSo it's that time of year when the last thing any sane person is doing is digging in the allotment during a gale. Despite the fact you get cold, wet and possibly catch a cold, it can also damage the soil structure if you dig when it's too wet. Seriously, that is true.<br />
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Luckily, the allotment is on the side of a hill and so drains well, meaning I've caught up a bit on the winter digging (which is digging you're supposed to do before winter starts, not halfway through.)<br />
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Anyway, the only produce growing is sprouts, leeks and parsnips, and the 'snips are tiny this year (I'm blaming the poor summer weather), however garlic and shallots are already in and sort of growing.<br />
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The greenhouse hasn't suffered any more damage recently. Which is nice. I have been offered some glass which will fit the lower panels, so it should be back in action later in the year.<br />
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Finally, the shed. I am sort of tidying it up, but it's slow work as every time I try I have a coffee. The roof needs re-felting, part of it blew off recently and is now covered with an old compost bag weighed down with bricks.<br />
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<br />Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-79934575743650600072015-12-23T11:42:00.001-08:002015-12-23T11:42:15.997-08:00The Spy with Eczema<br />
As I know I've said before, the problem with writing and being easily distracted is you end with loads of book starts, quite a few almost finished books and a couple of ideas that you think would make crackers.<br />
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Last count is one finished comedy spy romp book, The Spy with Eczema, one very nearly finished police procedural, Last Gang in Town, three part finished books (20,000 words of a Dystopian Epidemic series that will eventually be a million words, 10,000 into a 90s Rave culture road trip, 10,000 into a young adult time travel yarn (yep, I've no idea how I started writing that one) 10,000 into the sequel to The Spy ... , and five more around the 5,000 mark including a Debt Collector (possibly will become another police procedural) and a half arsed start on a sequel to seven daze, and also about 10 short stories I don't know what to do with.<br />
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That's a lot of books (and commas and brackets)<br />
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Luckily, there's an easy solution to clear the backlog: release them on Amazon.<br />
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Starting first..... The Spy with Eczema is now out. The others will hopefully follow by some means or other.<br />
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Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-66449051148670534902015-11-25T08:33:00.001-08:002015-11-25T08:33:46.085-08:00The greenhouse againIt seemed like a good idea at the time. Cheap plastic sheeting from Ebay, an old wooden and half fallen down greenhouse, and a bank holiday weekend. The result was functional if not pretty.<br />
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It lasted well. All through the summer, and into autumn, we had tomato plants, cucumbers and chilies. In October, after a touch of high wind, a few cracks were revealed in the plastic (it had stretched in situ and at the cracks appeared where it met the cross beams)<br />
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I thought it might just last the winter. Sure it could need a touch of patching up in spring, but I thought it was integrally strong enough to last.<br />
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Then last week, hurricane Bob or whatever the name was struck...<br />
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Realistically, none of the top half is salvageable due to the way it's split. The lower half is intact but probably won't be this time next week. <br />
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The door is the worst part for me. I must have spent an hour making it from a pasting table. While it should be easy to recover, it'll never be the same.<br />
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Those of you that used to follow either the old blog or know me from Authonomy days will know of a certain comedy spy book that I used to punt around.<br />
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It's actually 20 years ago that I started writing parts of it, which is nice. Problem was, it got out of hand and at an unwieldy 140,000 words it was consigned to the hard drive after being finished.<br />
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However, like all good phoenixes (or phoeni as I think the plural should be), it has risen from the ashes in a rather more acceptable 87,000ish word length.<br />
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More news on what is now either called <b>The Spy with Eczema</b> or <b>A Spy called Barry</b> very soon...<br />
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<br />Charlie Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11210253827591256777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8996841383249518598.post-16457811027187859992015-09-25T01:27:00.000-07:002015-09-25T01:27:02.803-07:00SpelkThe good people at Spelk put up my flash fiction short story, Kenny, last week.<br />
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Well so far I've had at least 12 pounds of the buggers (and nearly half as much again have gone unpicked and rotted/spoiled). Problem is, picking them involves a lot of time and bending over and my back's not particularly good at bending.<br />
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I've made jam, ice cream, given loads away and have a shopping bag full of frozen ones that I don't really know what to do with. Needless to say, I'll be halving the amount of plants for next year. <br />
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Anyway, some picture highlights of this year's strawberry bonanza.<br />
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A small fraction of the strawberries so far picked<br />
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Strawberry that looks a bit like someone facing right<br />
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Having enjoyed The Fix and Konstantin's various escapades, I was looking forward to reading Keith's latest. A bit of a change as it's a police procedural, but it's still got the same, tight writing that distinguishes Nixon from other writers.<br />
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The story begins when DI Charlotte Granger is called out to the decomposing body of an ex-security van driver and finds a business card in his wallet for an ex DS, now private investigator. The subsequent investigations give a big cast list, an equally big body count, and the interesting use of first-person past tense at various points keeps the speed up to almost breathless levels and keeps you interested throughout.<br />
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Due to the way the action builds up, it would be hard to give a full review without throwing in some spoilers. So I'll just say that two particular events: an unusual source of compost, and the surprise at the end, made Corpse Role very memorable.<br />
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Another bout of recent high winds have tested the greenhouse thing but, as yet, the thing still hasn't fallen down. I've also got some tomatoes and a cucumber growing inside it.<br />
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Finally, had a run in with the compost bin yesterday. While trying to get some compost out, about thirty bees swarmed out and went for me. Obviously I ran and hid and eventually managed to cover the thing back up, but it looks like they've made a nest or hive or whatever and, to be honest, they can have it. Picture doesn't show much I'm afraid, but you get the general idea.<br />
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Well after £11.23 on eBay plastic sheeting, a few quid on pound shop nails and screws, some scavenged wood and a bank holiday weekend, we have this...<br />
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So the plastic's a bit thinner than I thought and they've given out heavy winds tomorrow, but it has so far lasted two days. I'm particularly chuffed with the door which was fashioned from an old pasting table chopped down to size.<br />
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The Boy with the Thorn in his <strike>side</strike> surname, Aidan's written some short story zingers that have been up at <a href="http://shotgunhoney.net/fiction/waste-disposal-by-aidan-thorn.html" target="_blank">Shotgun Honey</a> and <a href="http://pulpmetalmagazine.com/2014/09/23/pick-up-by-aidan-thorn/" target="_blank">Pulp Metal Magazine</a> amongst other places.<br />I thought I'd Ask him what's going on at the moment, and though These things take time to put together, he didn't Panic.<br />I would say he's a bit of a <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Near-Knuckle-presents-Rogue-anthology-ebook/dp/B00VHHEI9Y/" target="_blank">Rogue</a> but that joke isn't funny anymore...<br />
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<br /><b><br />What are you currently working on?</b><br /><br /><br />I've got a couple of things on the go at the moment. Firstly, I'm working with Craig Douglas and Darren Sant on getting my second short story collection, Urban Decay, ready for publication under their Grit Fiction publishing company. I think we're nearly there and I'm really excited to get this book out with them. I'm also working on a novella that I've been working on in many ways for about 17 years. I had this idea for a screenplay years ago and I started writing it, but it sat in a desktop folder somewhere for years and never progressed. I was clearing out some old files a couple of years ago and found it again and still liked the idea so I decided to turn it into a novella. I've been plodding through it since about this time last year, but it's nearly there and I'm really happy with it. It's a sort of crime farce about an accidental kidnapping and it's called Worst Laid Plans. Once it's done I'll try and find a publisher for it.<br /><br /><br /><b>Why did you start writing?</b><br /><br /><br />In someways I've always written. I used to write songs, I got into film and started having script ideas and I've always loved books and figured I'd give it a go. I probably started taking it seriously about 5 years ago when I started my first novel, but I've always found that I get most satisfaction from the short stuff, there's a real buzz from writing a story, seeing it published and getting a reaction to it, that's what keeps me coming back to the short stuff and has stopped me progressing the novella or turning the novel into something I'd be happy to see published... I need a bit more discipline, because when I started writing short fiction I was hooked.<br /><br /><br /><b>Where do you write?</b><br /><br /><br />Everywhere. In my living room sat on the floor (that's where I am now), in the garden with the sun shining (that's where I'll be later), in the office at lunchtime, on the train or in hotel rooms when I have to travel for work. Where ever and whenever I can basically.<br /><br /><br /><b>Is your writing inspired by real events?</b><br /><br /><br />Yes and no. Some of my stories are inspired by real events, for example the very short story in new collection, Urban Decay, called 'Lucky' is basically me making a story of an encounter my friend had last year and I thought it would make a neat little short. I don't write too much horror but I did write one a couple years back that was inspired by a photo of my parents wedding... There's a ghostly figure stood over a grave stone as they walk away from the church and I used that to inspire a story called 'The Guest' that was published at Thills, Kills 'n' Chills. Obviously, there's often elements of what you know when you write something, but most of what I write is entirely fiction, set around familiar areas for me. If much of what I wrote was inspired by real events I think I'd be in prison, insane or both.<br />
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<b>Do you have enough time to write?</b><br /><br /><br />No. That's why I try to make sure I pinch moments whenever I can, as I said, on the train or during lunch breaks etc...<br /><br /><br /><b>Have you got a favourite author/genre?</b><br /><br /><br />Absolutely, I'm a fan of crime fiction, as most of my writing will show you. For me the masters of this genre are Lawrence Block, Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and the number one is George Pelecanos. But the great thing about writing myself is that I've found a bunch of other writers that I never would have who I'm hugely impressed by, I'm going to upset a few by missing them out, but I have to mention Darren Sant's Longcroft books and his excellent adult fairytale The Bank Manager and the Bum, I was on a train to and from Liverpool last month and I read two excellent novella's White Knight by Bracken MacLeod and Bang Bang You're Dead by Nick Quantrill. I'm really impressed by the work coming out from Number 13 Press at the moment, particularly Grant Nichol's The Mistake. Paul D Brazill always impresses me. Chris Leek wrote two of the best books I read last year, his short story collection and his Western novella. And, I have to give a mention to Gareth Spark, his short story collection, Snake Farm, is out soon and I've been privileged enough to have seen and advanced copy... Wow, this guy is unbelievably talented and should be one of literature's biggest stars.<br /><br /><br /><b>Physical book or e-book?</b><br /><br /><br />Both, although I'm tending to sway more towards e-books these days. I still get physical books for the authors I love the most, but an e-book is just so much easier to carry around and I always have a huge choice of books right there with me when I finish one.<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Who should we look out for?</b><br /><br /><br />Well I've already mentioned quite a few people in the question above. I've met so many talented people through writing, all of whom deserve a mention here. I know I've already given him a shout out, but I urge people that if they by one book this year, well make it Urban Decay by me, but if you buy two, it has to be Gareth Spark's Snake Farm. Honestly, there is so much talent in that guy it's scary. Actually, I'm going to suggest people buy a third book this year, grab Rogue from Near to the Knuckle too. It's packed with talent, some of my favourite writers working today, I don't want to offend any of them because they're all great but people that have particularly impressed me from this collection in the past year are T Maxim Simmler, Matt Mattila, Cal Marcius, Gary Duncan and Tess Makovesky. I also think people should be keeping an eye on what Number 13 Press is doing, they're putting out top quality crime fiction every month for 13 months (please let it go on longer!) at just 99p... I started the latest one from B R Stateham this morning and it's great.<br />
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Frogspawn, loads of it. This means two things. Firstly frogs are already somewhere on the plot, secondly it means a lot more frogs should be soon on the plot (subject to the vagaries of nature, predators etc). Frogs, if you didn't know, are good as they eat slugs. However, frogs and slug pellets don't mix too well as they kill frogs. So it looks like I won't be using slug pellets this year, I just hope the frogs do their bit and eat the slugs.<br />
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Finally, the last of the Parsnips turned out to be a whopper<br />
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More allotment fun and games next time...<br />
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