my publishing sensation

The sensation is of course that i actually bothered to gather together all my poems from 1985 to 2011 and make an ebook for kindle i had decided to create an ebook because it was something to learn how to do and less effort than a published bound and bagged book
if you ever get on amazon check out christopher lantern his midnight name i wanted to price it at 50p but discovered this was below the drop down price list
quite enjoyed the experience of getting my poems in a book without the usual failed to make a anthology, competiti
ion shortlist or magazine
i also published via lulu http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/christopher-lantern--his-midnight-name/17435539 priced at £1.00
i had created a new poem written in about two minutes and put it in tragedy and sadness rather than my usual category of faith enlightenment and universe

Perhaps the dead. Even the dead
Of death, of dream
Seeking escape in the mercury drowned white
Heavy unseeing
Biting your lover deep

had a few comment more than usual one being below
"man this has suicide written all over it
nice wording scary but good"
and another taking me up on the real colour of mercury -"mercury drowned white...but mercury is silver. So what is this? Very vague poem and alot of things you can read into it. hoping for more. "

should be my publishing selling line what is better than vague!

dreamt i was writing

supergods Our World in the Age of the Superhero y grant morrison i had read some graphic novesl in the 1990s such as marvels, miracleman, kingdom come , darkseid and knew about at least 10% of the entries in DC/marvel encylopedia but that about it this book by an established if rather pretend counter culture comic book writer told the story of the golden age, silver age, counter age and everyday alternative earth of the comic book Morrison tends to take himself too seriously who has the godlike powers here author or charactor? and from page 262 and the following chapter has a rather underwhelming alpha centauri vision of alien life
as typical with these autobiographies of my life in cultdom (ie dr who, military modelling, medieval battle reinactment) morrison mentions the funny fans and the odd obsessives he meets at all expenses paid conventions - hope they don't read this book

the moon on the hills by bill page one of the many roman britian novels apart chase thriller , part steeped in pagan orphean quest imagery dream trip despite the many dream sequences it is predicable and linear

the japanese devil fish girl by robert rankin his 32nd novel a comic fantasy set in an alternative victorian england after the martian invasion despite a promising start - a young churchill send the chronically sick to infect the planet Mars, and then moves on to the by now typical opening in a travelling freak show despite a voyage on a great passenger airship and meeting with martians, venusians and jupiterians the story increasing goes nowhere in a not that funny cartoon manner with the main charactors being so cardboard they fell over and off the page
the female love interest is byrons daughter ada lovelace born 1815--lets say she does not or in common with the rest of the books charactors act her age
ideas are picked up- the elephant man as a jack the ripper suspect. adolf hitler as a surly wine waiter but then not used

siberia Russias frozen frontier 1581-1991 an academic history full of tables maps and statistics strongest in content after 1917

get your kicks from order 66

501st imperial commando a star wars timeline novel set in the early weeks of the change over from the decadent galactic republic with its jedi corrupted petty tyrants to the glorious new age of our saviour galactic emperor it tells the story if story is the word of clone troopers who become " believe everything you hear on the news" palpatine loyalists engaged in a COPS style hunting down of jedi, usual nods to familiar franchise scenarios and familiar franchise charactors however no one gets a chance to smoke yodas arse much as they would like to ie the often repeated stormtrooper tales of where were you when you first heard order 66 the best bit is when the stormtroopers explosively dispose of a holed up jedi who turns out to be a opportunisitic thief of jedi equipment -" geez what kind of moron waves a light sabre around in times like these "
given the canon timeline and that most novels exist around the events of episodes 1-6 what happened to non canon novels ie 1977-1980 when anakin skywalker and vader were two different people, emperor palpatine merely a corrupt caesarian polititian and the clone wars just a name without a plot- true of the star wars franchise novels really

Ancestor scott sigler set in guess where a icebound research station with an experiment on the loose herethe creation of bovine carnosaur hybrid lots of crunch and gore as the charactors are bitten off one one by the rather too much like 1980s movie gremlins monsters the date and time chapter headings only showing how slow the novel really is sigler has publicity video of the novel like film trailer on website worth a look as it totally encapsulates the novel

kingdom of ohio matthew flaming a grand idea for a first novel the story of a lost princess from an alternative america lost in 1901 new york lots of footnotes mainly pseudosource asides on time travel experiments by tesla and edison and the opening of croatan portals to other worlds a first novel but don't do it again !!
albert jack true meaning of nursery rhymes how many more books on the theme of the main historical events of the 15th to 18th centuries being remembered in nursery rhymes

just call me hack poetaster

looking back on my writing from 1985 to 2011 noted i have only written 37 poems in that time and between 2002 -2007 only wrote 2 poems

the early work was prolonged social comment or love epics over 200 words in length

note today my poems are brief the theme at point of abyss and i managed to create 16 poems from feb 2011-Aug 2011 on the theme of basic universe that are becoming increasing minimalist and marginal in their universality

since it is library day expect the usual dire historical novel trilogy , the laking in amazing story sci fi novel and some general history of science book with the often bibliographic boring history of an obscure household object or even more obscure footsteps of a forgotten explorer taken by their distant relative

even the contents of the library of Alexandria are not so thrown away

have I read this before- no its just the same old story!!

richard blake blood of alexandra i have seen blakes byzantine thriilers before i like this period but kept on picking themup. opening at random finding turgid converstion and limp plotting and putting them back
this promised much the old familiar archaelogical thriller alexanders tomb mixed up with yet again a secret brotherhood guarding the old faith of the pharoahs clues that led to a lost pre altlantean city in the desert whose lost knowledge had helped create the glories of hellenistic science butvery much a talk novel with signposted charactors that by being in the previous two books you were now expected to know well
incidently looked at blakes blog he adds book reviews of his works by others
love to add one myself but have feeling i will read all the other novels in this series despite not really liking the predictable dull 7th century modern talk action and adventure is it junk food or what ?

complete gods and goddess of the ancient egyptians the old faith itself only showed the egyptians had a god for everything and that their religion was mainly cultic
jerusalem the biography by simon sebag montefiore from the book of kings to the six day war jersualem as the backdrop to all the main events from jesus to the crusades and onto the apocalyspe
eugene rogans the arabs a history narrative touched on similar ground and events but saw the last five hundred years as a fight against ottoman and european colonialism
only goes to show the history remains how we write it changes

booker prize novels come with own bookmark

read that jarmachs menagerie is shortlisted for the booker prize fair if not marvellous book
can only say never read many booker prize books either experimental or memory
noticed that i am not getting inspired stuck in a hopeless loop of goddess books, multivolume sci fi books set in cliche federations with hidden menaces

never read chick lit or closet drama of the age no time for modern versions of marie corelli george meredith or somerset maugham

had ideas for six novels myself stuck in synopsis or chaper one land mainly historical surreal stories set in time of incas, boudicea as a snobbish pseudo Roman matron gone bad , john dee as dicator of a magical elizabethan england, the true story of the 6th dalai lama and not forgetting my two trojan war novels

too much boredom with the goddess

library read julian copes megalithic european   well researched well travelled  and phoots of each megalolith illustrated however each phoot was runed by  the presence of a sinster loking  middle aged hippy who wandered into virtually every shot    but then i realised it was the author of the book
periodic table shoes i know little of chemistry  a usual popular science travel book  telling the usual stories about gold , plutonium , calcium  cadmuim cobalt mercury et al
 the life  and death of palnet earth    first thr plants die, then the oceans boil the sun becames a red gain consuming the inner palnets then ends up a cold cinder just as the andromeda galaxy collides with ther milky way six billion years hence   six billion years i thought it said six million years hence  at first -getting  worried
the voyages of the zen brothers  who discovered the faroe islands, the shetlands and the orkneys  in the late 14th century    and  were rewritten post columbus as discovers of america  i thought it was thomas of oxford a franciscan monk who discovered america via greenland in 1360 perhaps he was a literacy hoax too

i have not written any poetry for months   you can just have so much imagining of thr goddess  or pondering the night sky