about me

You could check out my website (see link below.) While here, I hope you enjoy a gripping adventure that can be read on many levels.

Authonomy is a treasure trove. A generous place too, with some very unique people who give genuine feedback, mostly :) I'm a better writer for it.

Only half of my novel is on line, and the chapters do not reflect changes I made, like moving the beginning (prologue) to another place. The story is however complete at nearly 120 000 words. I'm forever editing and have not sent out queries. I can be contacted at: ashenv@aol.com

The pitch here was recently changed, and I am hungry for feedback.

CoM made the E-Desk in February 2011 and since then I received a Harper Collins review on 10 000 words with helpful advice. The sequel in progress loops into the future - both a Science of the Heart and a Science Fiction.

Here an interview that appeared on the authonomy blog:
http://blog.authonomy.com/2011/01/authonomy-showcase-ashen-venema.html

The books I like here would make a long list, so I mention only one - on my bookshelf on and off - deeply touching and original ... 'Last Days of the Transitional Objects Institute' by Andrea Levine.


Many thanks to Bradley Wind, for transforming my Atlantic image into mystery :)

favourite books

Authors ...

1001 Nights - 1001 Nights - 1001 Nights - 1001 Nights

Grimm Brother's, Alice, Huckleberry, Jack Vance, 2 Banks, J.L. Borges, I. Allende, Garcia Marquez, D. Lessing, Ian Mc Ewan, Murakami, S.Faulks, R.Eco, Anthony Stevens, Seamus Heaney, E. Dickinson, C.G. Jung, T.S. Eliot, Ibn Arabi, Rumi ....
Start again - Joseph Campbell, F. Herbert, Harper Lee, C. Ruiz Zafon, BB, The Little Green Men go down the Stream, Ramsay Wood - Kalila and Dimna, Selected Fables of Bidpai, Muriel Spark, R. Chandler, Fowles, Italio Calvino, J. L. Borges, Bruce Chatwin, Sebald, Markus Zusak, Idries Shah, Tahir Shah .... Course of Mirrors ...

my websites

http://www.courseofmirrors.wordpress.com