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SAM NORTH - The Novels and Words: an barely active archive
Summer 2010
Just completed edits on a new novel and first draft of another. Now await verdicts from my editor. This is always the hardest part of being a writer. Meanwhile I have just been speaking on dystopian childrens fiction and giving 'one on ones' at the Winchester Writers Conference. It was fun seeing old friends and making new ones - even though it was a very hot day. Not entirely sure about the singing of Jerusalem during supper though. I'm off to France and Vigo in Spain to hopefully develop ideas for the next project. Meanwhile the summer edition of Hackwriters is up and only the marking of the final projects of the MA to do this September. Oh yes, and congrats to Catherine Fisher who wrote 'Incarceron' one of the most brilliant young adult books ever written and a huge success in the USA. I don't know her, but I predict the film could be huge if they do it right. Want something good to read? Find that book and its sequel.
'An engaging, unusual and completely engrossing read' - Beverly Birch author of 'Rift'
Available in Blackwells Bookshop to order, and Amazon and Lulu
'Extraordinary novel about a child's psychic awakening'
ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4 Print and e-book
Kids can survive anything, they say. Oliver, aged twelve, has a missing father in Africa, his mother has had a breakdown, and he is recovering from chemo. He is sent to live with his only relative. On a foggy day, one bald boy, with his cat, Flop, arrives at his Grandma's house at the water's edge in Greenwich. Oliver discovers to his horror that his Grandma, a famous psychic, hates cats. Her housekeeper, Lena loathes kids, and silent Justine seems to hate everyone. Add crazy Harriet, who has seen every fortune teller in London; Aura, a mysterious, aspiring beautiful actress and Bullet, the homeless kid with a very mean streak, trouble can't be far behind. When Oliver and Justine find a beautiful dog with it's throat cut washed up on the riverbank, Oliver feels a strange connection to this dead animal and so begins his own induction into a psychic world.
Since 1999 Sam has been running the on-line magazine Hackwriters.com a site for international writers in all subject areas. It continues as a place for new and 'experienced' writers to showcase their work. As of writing there are 5400+ articles posted on site and it as archived by the British Library for the digital web archive - a work in progress.
Thanks to all who have been ordering my books recently, particularly the flu pandemic novel
'Another Place to Die' - much appreciated.
Spread the word. Now available as an e-book as well as print. 'Swine Flu infected almost every country on earth but it 'only' killed just over 18,000 people. Bad luck for those who died, but good luck for us it was such a benign virus. But there is a virus coming, something bubbling up, awaiting the right circumstances. Swine Flu was just 'practice'. When it comes - we will be so blasé about it we won't even take it seriously. That's the danger of a benign virus, we think we can handle it. We wont. You are warned. Read 'Another Place to Die' and prepare yourself for the worst...' 2600 sold so far and rising
This update July 2010
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