Working on a promo for Encounters

Over the last two days, I have been working on a promotional video for Encounters. I needed some captions etc. to go with the images used. Here is the result.

Canvas

 

A canvas, born of innocence.

Life's encounters,

a colour-burst

medium.

A palette of

light,

dark and

vibrant.

Good,

bad and

violent.

Each,

shaping life,

composing 

our emotional

landscapes.

An afterthought...

Following on from my previous post, here's a non-traditional senryu.

e-readers
formatting nightmare
for poets

A senryu is a form of poetry that originates from Japan. Traditionally, it follows the same structure as a haiku and contains three lines and specific syllable count of 5- 7-5 . The haiku deals with nature whilst a senryu is primarily concerned with human nature and is often humorous or satirical in content.

The above is an example of a non-traditional senryu in that it follows a 3-5-3 syllable count.

One Step Closer to Kindle Publication

Good morning folks ...

And what a beautiful day to wake up to. The sun is shining for the second day in a row down here, which no doubt means the powers that be will be considering another 'hose pipe ban' before long.

I have just spent the best part of three days re-formatting the manuscript for Encounters, making it e-reader friendly for it's launch on to the Kindle platform in the not too distant future. And what an experience that was!

Book Review - Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts - by Talli Roland

If you're looking to read something short and sweet with feel good factor and a subtle dose of karma, then look no further than this offering by Talli Roland.

At around 20,000 words, Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts is a short Novella, which, I imagine to be the right combination of length and depth to the plot and characters, to make it a light reading experience.

Book Review - The Intruder (The Golden Soul) - by Kay Dorney

In this, her debut novel, Kay Dorney has managed to blur the lines between the natural, supernatural and preternatural worlds and phenomenon. She does so in a way that makes a refreshing change from the plethora of books available within this genre.

Another 5* review sneeks onto the radar.

'Can I just say that I don't normally write comments or reviews, but I loved this book so much I kind of felt I had to.' 

This is just one of the wonderfully warm comments expressed by 'riellered' in her review of Encounters on Amazon.co.uk

Read her full review here.

I'm chuffed to bits.

I must be mad...

After the trials and tribulations of publishing Encounters, I promised myself that I wouldn't inflict any more of my poetic musings on the world at large. In fact, I haven't had a single creative thought in several weeks/months. That is to say I hadn't, until the wee small hours of Friday morning when, suffering the Mother of all headaches combined with a session of insomnia, I broke the creative drought.