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JD Revene

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I am currently revising APPETITES. The version posted here is close to a year out of date.

At the moment I'm not reading much. But when I back something it stays on my shelf for months, usually until it makes the desk.

My email is: jdrevene@gmail.com or you contact me via my website, details below.

Profile and cover photography by my lovely wife ~miss panda~ see more of her work on Flickr or the website below:

favourite books

A Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes; One Day by David Nicholls; Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby; Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy; An Equal Music by Vikram Seth; The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell; Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis; Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk; The Collector by John Fowles;
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos; and This Charming Man by Marian Keyes.

More generally: for the dialogue anything by Elmore Leonard; for settings integrated in the story anything by Ian Rankin or Michael Connelly; and for crisp writing Ernest Hemminway (I enjoy Cormac McCarthy too).

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Appetites

JD Revene

What would you do if your partner wanted you to invite a stranger into your bed?


The problems James and Sally face aren't unusual. The way they deal with them is.

James Harford and his wife Sal search for fulfillment in post-Olympics, pre-GFC, Sydney. Living in a consumption-driven society they have everything and it’s not enough. Then they pick up a charming stranger in a strip club, and one thing leads to the other. Yes, that other.

Days that are going to change your life should come with a warning attached.

Yearnings become all consuming. Sal seeks affirmation from a smorgasbord of men. James becomes close to another woman. Gnawing jealousy eats away at what they share. Mid-life crisis meets free-love and nobody’s satisfied.

APPETITES is contemporary fiction and complete at 80k. A short synopsis is posted here at tab forty-eight.

[WARNING Contains sexually explicit adults only material]

 

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DaisyFitz wrote 5 hours ago

Hmmm. Okay, my two penneth… - It looks like a poster from wartime ....

Victoria Hunter wrote 2 days ago

Thanks :-)

Fred Le Grand wrote 2 days ago

New book if it's of interest, mate!

Jehmka wrote 3 days ago

Thank you for the comment and backing, JD. I agree with your assessm....

Victoria Hunter wrote 4 days ago

JD - Thanks a million for spending the time - really - I think I want....

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I wrote 4 days ago

Interesting that you don't classify this as YA. For me it has that feel (though I suspect in an Animal Farm kind of way). Love that a month's allowance wouldn't buy a gallon of petrol! A few minor observations: The first para of the first chapter had a few echoes of 'out'. I'm not sure... view book

I wrote 12 days ago

Tony, As promised I've come to take a look. First up I don't read a lot of children’s fiction--my kids are too old for it now--which means I'm no expert in the genre. However, I read a fair amount of it ten or more years ago when my kids were younger. And some things don't change. I guess, in ... view book

I wrote 14 days ago

Sharon, It's taken me a while to get here, but here I am. Starting on the book page I see that you describe this as both a thriller and fantasy. This leaves me wondering whether it is supernatural fantasy/romance--a la, say Stephenie Meyer--or a thriller with supernatural elements, but grounde... view book

I wrote 21 days ago

From the One to Watch blog, here's what HC had to say: "A few people have been talking about the novel that I've chosen as this week's One to Watch, so if you've not read it yet, it's time to see what the fuss is about: Ramadan Sky by Victoria Hunter Ramadan Sky is a literary novel set in ... view book

I wrote 41 days ago

Victoria, I promised some time ago to take a look at your work. So here I am! Before I begin I should warn I tend to be both verbose and picky. With respect to the latter I advise taking all comments with a pinch of salt, few of us here are professionals after all. I take notes as I read, ofte... view book

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