Ep. 277: The New Crucifixion - Written, Bound, and Mailed

Bookbinding

I’ve completed a few books. First up is my novel The New Crucifixion. Political intrigue made more complex by religious dogma. For a client for Christmas so it’s been sent out hopefully on time but if not, they can read it during the New Year’s holiday season.

It is A5, 148 pages with extra pages advertising other novels Ive written about here (the first chapters of Growing Slurry, Abacus Longing, and Heart of November). As requested by the client, I hasten to add lest people complain about my using clients as advertising. I’m hoping they will order another book, of course. By the way, you can, too. 

Check out my Fiction For Sale and Handmade Books for Sale on the left of this site. I should probably have advertised this long before Christmas, eh?

Next up is a 2023 schedule for a client. It’s B6 in size with nine signatures. I’ll post pictures in the next podcast, if the client agrees. Finally, if I finish it in time, a graph paper notebook; one of a series of 50 that I am slowly working my way through. I think this is number three. Wish me luck.

Fiction

With fiction I have two thoughts: one, I’m writing a lot. Two mysteries/detective stories set in Kanazawa, plus a novel that I’ve mentioned before: The Dancer. Each gets a little bit everyday. Maybe a sentence, maybe a paragraph, maybe a whole chapter. But work on them I do and they are slowly moving forward.

My second thought is, Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Rushdie ventures into magical realism but also creates words, phrases, and runs words together (runswordstogether) for dramatic effect, picking up the pace, and urging the reader to hurry. But this is not a book review site so I will leave it to you to discover Satanic Verses on your own.

Substack

Speaking of Heart of November, my Substack stack has, as of this podcast, Chapter Ten up and running. You can read Chapters 1 ~ 9 as well, plus musings about writing techniques (dialog, fight scenes). If you wish to make a comment on either the writing techniques or the fiction (Earlier short stories of love and ghosts precede Heart of November) please feel free.