Burnley Artisan Market

I will be running a stall at Burnley Artisan Market on Saturday, 7^th May and, as part of this, I will be selling self-penned works – see list at bottom. This is a full day’s activity (it’s set me back £600 btw) during which I will signing copies as an author and doing readings from my works. I will have popup displays for the works I will be promoting; the emphasis will be on the book Burnley which consists of essays on the town and its grammar school. I am a former pupil of Burnley Grammar School.

List of works I will be promoting

Burnley – essays on the town and its grammar school

Door Witch – recent release – Anime – RPG themed

The Slow Holocaust – Short Fiction – Dystopian

Silt From Distant Lands – Poetry

The Turning Stone – YA Fantasy

The Tau Device – Science Fiction with an emphasis on alien culture, terraforming, xenoarchaeology and conflict in space

Morning Walk 18.01.23

Mornings are great time for seeing things as they really are a.m. and Manchester Road towards the top of the hill which goes further into Baxenden. With the snow comes some hazard because depending on how much the council has gritted, the footing could be treacherous. This morning was fresh snow so I saw no reason to put off my morning walk.

Walking from my garden and put the long haul in slane snow is fresh. Take the light down towards Manchester Road and the snow is still fresh but with the possibility hazards due to a more pronounced slope.

Manchester Road has some traffic and this looks to have been gritted by the council the pavement snow covered. As dogs have been walked there are compacted areas so some caution is required.

I settle into my stride something over my current affairs the letting agent at quickmove is lazy and disorganised it isn’t fortunate that the Methodist church rely upon him for my current tenancy arrangement and at the core there are works outstanding in the property which haven’t been addressed for over 6 years: he hasn’t done the work. Also on a personal front I am in the market for a new contract. All part of life.

On my latest work of fiction I have some reservations about the title, I’ve had some reservations about the title which is Daemon Fire ire but in this day and age anything seems to pass. Travel withdrawal from my school day memories with a play on the host club activities on the rather entertaining Ouran High School Host Club with a potpourri of Undead, Demons, Nature based myth, and Demi humans. This will differ from much normal fantasy by dwelling on real reactions to the fantastic and to the implausible… I sometimes ponder whether this is what I want – there is no right or wrong about this I have to choose.

I have four plot points to bring into the narrative – in short order – I do not memorise these but they are there. Also, because this is RPG themed there are matters such as superpowers and pain thralls to bring in – mixed in with this is is is romance, romantic rivalry and a side tour.into deeper and darker matters

Burnley

This is the landing page for the book: Burnley which gives the history of the town and an account of Burnley Grammar School in the years before it closed. Much of this account is taken from copies of the school yearbook, The Brun, which I have kept over the years.

The technical side of reproducing the images was challenging. I am grateful for the interest shown in this project, in particular, the support of the Burnley Express.

Start here: About Burnley

 

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