A really nice appreciation of “Flirting at the Funeral” by the great Phil Rowlands, author and editor extraordinaire! Flirting At Whose Funeral Seeing new places and meeting new people has to be one of the most rewarding aspects of travel. The picture opposite combines both. The cool guy in the leather jacket and shades is author Chris Keil whom …
New Flirting review
5.0 out of 5 stars Just incredibly brilliant, 8 Nov 2013 By Bob Ventos “Bob Ventos” (UK) – See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What is this?) This review is from: Flirting at the Funeral (Paperback) I bought this because I liked the title – but it was a great and surprising find. In fact, it’s the best novel I’ve read in several years. …
CULTURE WARS
Culture Wars: Other Voices In British Literature Panel Discussion at Portland State University http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDi_Fbo6TJI Catch me at 1.15.20 Not to be missed!
Waterstones Carmarthen Book Launch
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Two epic Cillian Press book launches this week, both at Heffers in Cambridge: Susan Sellers’ glamorous and sophisticated novel about art, music and moral compromise “Given the Choice,” and Alex Mellanby’s haunting YA novel “Tregarthur’s Promise.” Starry, galactic, firework-display occasions!
TWO WEEKS TO WORDSTOCK!
If you missed Chris Keil at the Hay Festival in June http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5822-chris-keil-and-julian-preece.aspx You can catch him at Wordstock in October! https://wordstockfestival2013.sched.org/speaker/chriskeil WORDSTOCK 2013 in the Oregon Convention Centre, Portland, Oregon, October 5th and 6th The biggest book-fest in the Pacific North-West! Chris Keil will be reading from his latest novel Flirting at the Funeral (Cillian Press) on-stage with the legendary …
WORDSTOCK 2013
WORDSTOCK 2013 – The festival schedule is now live http://www.wordstockfestival.com/festival-schedule/ Two hundred and thirty writers, and I’m one of them! I’m doing a writing class on Sex and the Serious Novel And I’m appearing on stage with Chelsea Cain – going to be seriously good fun! Check it out here: http://chelseacain.com/events/wordstock-readingtalkqa
WORDSTOCK!
WORDSTOCK 2013 Saturday October 5th at 2.00pm I’m on stage with Chelsea Cain! Then writing workshop “Sex and the Serious Novel” at 4.30 …
Shooting stars
Did you see the Perseids tonight? Every one a wish, leaving a line of light behind it on the retina, and then a line of darkness…
WORDSTOCK WORKSHOP
Title of creative writing workshop at Wordstock: SEX AND THE SERIOUS NOVEL The workshop will look at the role of the erotic in literary fiction: sometimes moving, sometimes embarrassing, sometimes unintentionally hilarious. Sex is a major part of life; why do so many serious writers have such trouble writing about it?
MORE WORDSTOCK NEWS
FLIRTING AT THE FUNERAL: I’ll be doing a reading/Q&A at Wordstock, Portland OR on Saturday October 5th at 2pm, signing books at 3.00 and leading a creative writing workshop at 4.30. Busy day!
GREAT REVIEW!
Amazon reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars Its fun to flirt This review is from: Flirting at the Funeral (Cillian Press, 2012) I read the second of Chris Keil’s books, Liminal and found the story much more engrossing when the action switched from Wales to Greece. It is the same with his third book, Flirting at the Funeral, where the story picks …
TAKE ANY SHAPE
In the morning there were sky-larks flying high and out of sight, releasing trills and spirals of silver notes into the blue air. Jack left early; from the back bedroom window I watched the Mercedes as he eased it up the lane between parked cars and wheely-bins, exhausts bubbling. At the junction with the main road he paused, an …