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Trout Delamer

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About four years ago I started making up stories for my daughter, with her encouragement (a.k.a. nagging) I have written a short book with four stories in. Writing this book has also given birth to three fictional characters responsible for it's production. Initial responses have been favourable, even from the total strangers whose doors I knocked on. I am a self-taught artist, due to the necessity to illustrate children's books and am now exploring the world of self-publishing, unless someone wants to offer me a deal! Self-publishing here I come. I am not doing this because I want to, it is because I must do. Check out the artist's Facebook page, Vincent Dontdoit,and see what the illustrations are like.

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Not a big reader of fiction, I prefer biographies and other factual based tomes, particularly mathematical history. I was quite a prolific Technical Author at one time, although this trade has almost been made defunct due to the spread of computers and the common dellusion that anyone can write. I firmly believe that writters are born that way and no amount of training or courses will make a writer out of a non-writer, nor will a true writer ever manage to stop writing, it's an illness without a cure. Really though, it is a talent, and like all talents it can be either a blessing or a curse, dependant on application and attitude.

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Trout Delamer

A book of stories for children, written by a mutant fish that is an exotic pet of a rather eccentric, retired, catering corps colonel. Crazy!


A book of stories, written by a fish and illustrated by a self-taught clour-blind artist who does not believe in colour-blindness, and describes his style as "Properly Wonky"! Sounds like complete madness to most people, myself included. Fortunately the stories are rather good, and the included illustrations are from both a time before reading "30 Minute Sketching" By Alwyn Cawshaw (Published by Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-784850-8) and after some self-education, possibly inadvertently providing the best advertising possible for Mr Crawshaw's excellent tutorial book. The stories are probably best classed as "Fairy Tales", highly original, entertaining, going through all emotions, and hopefully providing a positive message to children. One night as I was putting my young daughter to bed, I suggested that I made up a story instead of reading a book. Her initial reaction was a bit sceptical, thinking that stories only come from books, but she liked the made-up stories so much she then wanted them every night after that! There are dozens more stories to make further books, but for the last two years the subject of the stories has been "Denise and the Donkeys", a crazy world has developed around this and I am currently writing the book.

 

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verabeko wrote 93 days ago

Hi, I am Vera! please how are you! hope you are fine and in perfect ....

Jack Cerro wrote 102 days ago

I am Jack failure to follow his own 6th commandment. 1: Thou shalt....

ClaireLyman wrote 126 days ago

Hi, Trout. Fancy swapping reads? Claire

love4044 wrote 127 days ago

Hi, I am Vera! please how are you! hope you are fine and in perfect ....

AndrewStevens wrote 129 days ago

As a fan of Nathan O'Hagan's terrifically involving 'The World is (No....

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I wrote 164 days ago

I thought I'd better have a look at the work of a writer who described my book of stories for children as "Literary fiction pushed to its limits in a strangely comic tale of a stranger intellect", just to see if he meant what I thought he had meant. Excert from "An Unfinished Innocence" are a shocki... view book

I wrote 173 days ago

I have read the first two chapters. As I have to get up in the morning I wont read anymore, for I feel that if I read one more chapter I will not be able to stop. Not my usual sort of read, but a very good one as it has got me gripped. Well done. view book

I wrote 179 days ago

Thanks for the comments Emily and Leelah. I have illustrated the stories, but could not download the version with the pictures in it, and advice on how to do this would be most welcome. It is very encouraging to get such positive responses so quickly. I don't need to see a psychiatrist after all! view book

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