about me

***Am after input / readings on The Spirit Of Nagasaki***

I am the co-creator and contributing editor of satirical 'paranoia & lifestyle' webzine Home Defence and have been writing novels for a decade. I've written eight novels in all, most fairly literary but across many genres (although I'd be reluctant to show the first three attempts to anyone).

If you comment I will watchlist you and comment back when I can. Send me an email if I seem like I've forgotten or need a nudge. Sometimes reading fiction on a screen can feel a bit against nature – like watching event movies on a mobile, but I'm keen to be constructive rather than withering and I’m not going to nit-pick at the level of the sentence or point out grammatical errors unless they impact on my enjoyment of the story.

Also I don’t like to give plot advice after only having read a portion of a book, preferring to trust in an author that they have an eye on the bigger picture and it'ill all come together eventually (I just haven’t got to that part yet).

S.O.N. is complete at 98,000 words and the first fifth is up here. The epigraph for this book hasn't been included but it's from 'Timequake' by Kurt Vonnegut and goes like this:

"I had to add, though, that I knew a single word that proved our democratic government was capable of committing obscene, gleefully rabid and racist, yahooistic murders of unarmed men, women and children, murders wholly devoid of military common sense. I said the word, it was a foreign word, that word was Nagasaki."

favourite books

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Infinite Jest / Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
Anything by Don Delillo
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Survivor / Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Absurdistan - Gary Shtengyart
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Watchmen / From Hell - Alan Moore
Other authors: Jonathon Franzen, George Pelecanos, Michel Houellebecq, Denis Johnson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sherman Alexie, Jim Thompson, Douglas Coupland, Hubert Selby Jr, Garth Ennis (Preacher), Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami, Sam Lipsyte, Jonathon Lethem, John Wagner, DBC Pierre, Charles Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Yates, P J O'Rourke, Salman Rushdie, Richard Powers, John Fante & Stephen Sherrill.

my websites

http://www.homedefenceuk.com/     http://www.myspace.com/alandevey