about me

I read too much.

Blood Sisters is the first book I have finished. I recognise that I have an awful lot to learn*. Any constructive (or just any) criticism is more than welcome. Thank you.

*I'm sure if I knew just how much I'd just roll up in a ball.

If you read or write Fantasy, make your way over to the Alliance of Worldbuilders, a thread for Fantasy Authors. Mutual support, criticism and cake* can be found here:

http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/61851/the-alliance-of-worldbuilders/


I like a lot of the books here, it would be invidious
to make a selection, so that's just what I'm
going to do (in no particular order):

The Devouring Mother,
The Loneliness of the Blue-Eyed Assassin,
Wolf and the Riddle,
Electrify Me,
The Shadow Fairies,
Death and the City,
Good Neighbour,
Samael,
Pearl Edda,
Fame and Infamy,
The Girl from Ithaca,
Shadows in the Dusk,
Forgotten Gods,
Zamorna,
Ashes by Now,
Fingerprints,
Children of the Lost Moon,
The Ratter's Tale,
Finders Keepers,
Daimon,
Bad Bishop
Relic...
Oh dear, a couple I have forgotten the names of; I'll have to try and remember (that'll be your book then, no doubt).

I'll back books I like. It might take me a while to find them, there are quite a few out there.

Please feel free to back my book if you think it's good enough.

Agents who may wish to represent me can contact me by email: k1ddgarrett at yahoodotcodotuk

Books on which I have finished inflicting my critical peccadilloes or proofreader's eye include:

Viene La Tormenta by Scott Thompson
Zamorna, by Tina Rath
Witch Princess, by Mandy Springer.
He-Dog and Balless by Keith C. Blackmore
Death And The City by Lisa Scullard
Guardian by L H Leece
Wolf and the Riddle by Kasie Stadig
Magic's Guardian by Kasie Stadig
Finders Keepers by Annalisa Gulbrandsen

It takes a while to read a whole book. I like these, they were worth the time.

* I lied about the cake, sorry.

favourite books

Noggin the Nog - Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin, The Histories - Herodotus, The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein, Ulysses - James Joyce, A Pogo Sunday Brunch - Walt Kelly, A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin, War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, Hobberdy Dick - K M Briggs, An Elephant for Aristotle - L Sprague de Camp, The Secret of the Unicorn - Herge, Medea - Euripides, Borrobil - William Croft Dickinson, Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon, The Whispering Mountain - Joan Aiken, The Man who Japed - P K Dick, The Midnight Folk - John Masefield, Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr, The Brothers Lionheart - Astrid Lindgren, Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Puck of Pook's Hill - Rudyard Kipling, Asterix in Spain - Goscinny and Uderzo, Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, Emil and the Three Twins - Erich Kastner, Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood, The Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse, Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea - Eric Linklater, Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad, The Story of the Amulet - Edith Nesbit, The Confessions of Felix Krull - Thomas Mann, Candide - Voltaire, Treasure Island - R L Stevenson, Dog Days - Gunter Grass, The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hasek, Monday Begins on Saturday - Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Monkey - Wu Cheng En, The Praise Singer - Mary Renault, The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff, Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson, Dr Mirabilis - James Blish, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny, American Gods - Neil Gaiman, The Planet Buyer - Cordwainer Smith, The Boy in Red - Violet Needham, Latro in the Mist - Gene Wolfe, Night Watch - Terry Pratchett, The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers, The Adventures of a Simpleton - von Grimmelshausen, To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis, The Baroque Cycle - Neal Stephenson, The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter, The Blue Flower - Penelope FitzGerald, Flashman at the Charge - George MacDonald Fraser, "Rommel?" "Gunner Who?" - Spike Mlligan, Black God's Shadow - C L Moore, Darker Than You Think - Jack WIlliamson, Figures of Earth - James Branch Cabell, The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, The Moon of Gomrath - Alan Garner, Commentarii de Bello Gallico - Julius Caesar, English Passengers - Matthew Kneale, Black Orchids - Rex Stout, Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith, We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea - Arthur Ransome, The Once and Future King - T H White, Gil Blas - Lesage... I may have missed a few. Oh yeah, anything by Aristophanes...

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