about me

For publishers'/agents' interest: mcdzan78@gmail.com


I WAS AWAY FROM AUTHO FOR A WHILE AND LOGGED ON TO SEE THAT MANY PEOPLE HAD PLACED SOMNAM ON THEIR SHELVES. I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT WISH TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE IN MY BOOK. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THE DESK AND NO LONGER HAVE TIME FOR AUTHO BUT WILL REMEMBER THIS SITE WITH FONDNESS AS I MET SOME WONDERFUL PEOPLE HERE.

The Somnambulist rose as high as 30 odd under the "old" authonomy process and over more than two years of being here, I've reviewed anywhere between 500/600 books or chapters thereof. I now prefer to spend my limited free time writing and no longer have time for reviews, although I will make the effort when I can. I love fiction writing--the imaginative/creative process is a wonderful balm to me--something mystical and magical which has consumed me since childhood. I'm happy to be here--still--among people like myself who have a need to follow their dreams. May yours come true.

Writing credits include fiction (some 25 publications) and non-fiction publications (academic textbooks and journal articles (Law)).

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)
"In the city fields
contemplating cherry-trees . . .
Strangers are like friends."

favourite books

Andy Capp series :) (Seriously!)
(Authors): Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Poe, Wilde, Hesse, Dickens, Maugham, Flaubert, Lu Wen Fu, Camus, Kafka, Roth, Hugo, Hardy, Oe, Coelho, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Conrad, Joyce, Marquez, Ellison, Ngugi, Naipaul, Walcott, Lawrence, Orwell et cetera . . .

Most of my personal works explore the human condition. If you like my writings and would like to obtain copies I have a couple books available through Createspace and Amazon--link to my Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Zan-McDowell/e/B005XYSA6E/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Happy reading! And most of all, happy writing!

my websites

http://caribbean-literature.blogspot.com/