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Author: Shameez Patel PapathanasiouGenre: FantasyPublished: January 2022Publisher: Flame Tree PressSynopsis: South African born, debut author brings a threat-and-danger, hidden-world fantasy with touches of Suzanne Collins which fans of VE Schwab or Sarah J Maas will love.Twenty-two-year-old Cassia’s sister is dying, and she doesn’t know why. Cassia wakes up in another realm to find her missing…

Author: Richard BransonGenre: Entrepreneurship, Non-Fiction, Personal DevelopmentPublished: January 2006Publisher: Virgin BooksSynopsis: I have been fortunate to have achieved a great many things in my life so far. Now I want to share the secrets of that success with you and help you reach your own goals in business and in life. I believe that business can create a better world by building…

What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky #AmReading #BookPreview

A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager…

The Magician’s Apprentice #BookReview #TrudiCanavan #TheMagiciansApprentice

Title:The Magician’s Apprentice – Hardcover Author:Trudi Canavan Genre:Fantasy Book procurement:Book store sale Rating: A predictable 3 out of 5 Synopsis: In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer. Her mother would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn.When the advances of a visiting Sachakan…

The New Creation #Fiction #ShortStory #Fantasy

Image courtesy of JayMantri – Pexels Apprentice Ibel curses softly to himself as he rotates a gnarled root between his fingers. He takes a whiff and frowns. “Doesn’t smell right.” he mutters to himself, using his dirty fingers to disperse the dirt. He lazily whirls a finger towards it, the granules of soil rolling back against the roots to tuck the plant into the earth. He yawns and stretches…

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe #BookReview #AfricanAuthors #ChinuaAchebe

Title:A Man of the People Author:Chinua Achebe Genre:African Literature – Literary Fiction Book procurement:Home Library Rating: An inspiring 4 out of 5 Synopsis: By the renowned author of “Things Fall Apart,” this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.This…

New Year Greetings & Book Recommendation It's a new year. Let's not let time and life pass us by.

Image by Tumisu from Pixabay The sun rises early and soon rivals my light – still on, where I’ve woken up again with the taste of a story on my tongue. My eyes rove the ceiling, but instead of intersecting lines and an off-center light fixture, images of new worlds encompass the white space. And along with it, the itch to write it all down. “I’ll remember after this nap.” I tell myself. I lie…

Heaven’s Door

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I bade farewell to my heart.

It leapt from its perch upon my scarlet dampened sleeve, loosened cuff-links baring skin from tattered garment.

I bade farewell to my mind.

Jagged thorns of electric pulses lifting from crown, as crowned relics of ones thoughts flitted beyond ephemeral conscious and subconscious veil.

If there were else about me, I…

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde #BookReview #OscarWilde

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author: Oscar Wilde

Genre: Horror

Book procurement: Office library.

Rating:

A so-so 3 out of 5

Synopsis:

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when…

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“Regression is slow. Gradual. Unhurried in it’s bid to drive one to madness. Creeping tendrils digging further and further into the mind like forgotten seeds, sprouting forests of disquiet and skepticism as to ones’s true self; the conundrum of self-agnosticism.”

It was a thought that passed through his mind as quickly and as slowly as it took to say it out loud. The sprawling…

Jozi Flash 2018 #CoverReveal #Anthology

It is with great excitement that I post this video. The new Jozi Flash anthology is coming soon, and we will be celebrating first, with a cover reveal on the 30th June.

  Details will be available soon. In the mean time…

In the mean time, please feel free to download and read out previous iterations of…

The Fog by James Herbert #BookReview #JamesHerbert #horror

  Title: The Fog

Author: James Herbert

Genre: Horror

Book procurement: Bought second hand somewhere…

Rating:

An okay 3 out of 5

Synopsis:

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other.

Whatever…

Beneath The Wax – Available Now

It is with great excitement that I present to you my first “solo” published novella, Beneath The Wax. A big thank you to Nicky from Chasing Dreams Publishing who believed in me and pushed me to complete this work. And many thanks to quite a number of people, some of whom may never see this post, but were integral to sustaining me while I was writing. Thank you all.

  1723: Constantine…

Telempath by Spider Robinson #BookReview #Telempath #SpiderRobinson

Title: Telempath

Author: Spider Robinson

Genre: Science Fiction

Book procurement: Nicky of Chasing Dreams allowed me to lend this book from her. Thanks Nicky!

Rating:

A charming 3.5(4) out of 5

Synopsis:

The Muskies: spawned in Earth’s long childhood of fire and stone, they flourish in the stinking hell Man calls ‘civilisation’. They ride the wind: gaseous beings perceptible to Man only now that a…

Get To Know Me #WritersTag

Fellow author and low-key my inspiration, J.M Williams nominated me to participate in the Writers Tag, started by Lorraine Ambers  and Ari Meghlen (who have a knack for these things I won’t lie). Click on the names to visit their blogs and let’s work to continue both growing the writing community and expanding our circle of writers.

The Writer Tag has the following prerequisites so other…

The Gunslinger – Stephen King #BookReview #StephenKing #TheDarkTower

Title: The Gunslinger – The Dark Tower #1

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Book procurement: I bought the original copy ages ago and read through it. In a recent (okay maybe not so recent) Christmas gift exchange, I got The Gunslinger revised version from my cousin – see, I am easy to buy gifts for.

Rating:

An intriguing 4 out of 5

Synopsis:

In The Gunslinger (originally published…

Writing Update: Of Metal and Magic + Beneath The Wax: Cover Reveal

It has been an enduring couple of months, and yet at the end of it all, writing continues to be both a savior and a form of catharsis that pulls me back from the murky depths. Well that, family, and good friends. Nonetheless, and despite my abhorrent absence, the writing cogs continue to go on. Much like life.

Of Metal and Magic

For the last few months I’ve been working alongside a couple of…