Half of what I have written will never be seen.
I have about 3,000 pages of work, both fiction and non-fiction, covering a period of over 30 years from which the pieces in these books are selected. It's thoroughly entertaining and completely understandable to practically anyone that can read. It will make you laugh and cry and it will make you think. It has an international, diverse cast of characters and a global setting, and it goes on to address issues of multiculturalism, sexuality, ecological concerns and so on.
But as the series goes on its remit will expand. This book, which might best be described as a romantic fantasy adventure presented in a most unusual format, deals primarily with issues surrounding dreams, reincarnation, destiny and deja vu. It can quite happily stand alone, but I really do hope you will be so thrilled and amazed by it that you will want to read the other four books in the series too. This is mentioned inside the book's cover, of course, but again, I thought it would be a mistake to mention it on the front in case of potential readers mistakenly got the idea that the book was in some way unnaturally stretched-out or perhaps not a self-contained entity. This is the first book in a series of five (book two is almost ready to submit as I write). Attach such importance to anyone one piece would have been inappropriate and misleading, which is why I decided not to quote from any of them. The 20 pieces the book contains are so different to each other - and yet also inter-dependent and interrelated - that to single any one of them out to quote from on the rear cover blurb would have been to give the wrong impression of the work, and indeed the series as a whole. And neither is it a collection of short stories. I wanted people to know this was something quite unusual and thought-provoking, but I didn't want them to be confused, and I certainly didn't want anyone to dismiss the book out of hand because they thought it might be hard work or too arty or highbrow. I wanted something that would be intriguing and not give too much away. The headline at the top is that piece's title. The cover blurb I used is from a piece scheduled to appear in Book Three of the Killing Time Legacy Series. It seemed like a great idea at the time, and I still love it, but I now have the feeling it may be repelling more people than it's attracting and that was obviously not my attention, so please allow me to do something to overcome any negative impression I may have inadvertently created. I very much doubt it's allowed to review your own book on here, but I'm keen to make up for what I now consider to be an unfortunate choice of rear cover blurb in any way I can. "We are all both broken up and Egotistical but we quite often don't have much else in common with each other so, as the old saying goes, if you really want to know an Artist, look at his Art! ”ĮNIGMATIC COVER BLURB EXPLAINED AND COMPENSATED FOR! Maybe it's God, but my guess is it's the Ego, and if Art only exists to feed it, only an Egotist can appreciate the crowning irony of 3rd Person, which while claiming it isn't Egotistical allows its users the delusion of Omnipresence." "Artists generally believe that if they flog their words, colours, sounds, designs or blocks of stone for long enough they will find themselves a little closer to re-assembling their broken mirrors and seeing in them exactly what it is that compels them to pick up so much fruit. If that’s the only way to tell the difference then to spot an Artist you need hindsight, but I’m not so sure it is, and I have a couple of pointers of my own: We could argue all day and all night about what’s Art and what isn’t and who’s feeding his Ego and who isn’t – but even Plato and Socrates could tell you (if they were still with us,) that an Entertainer can be proven to have a limited shelf-life beyond which his market value will be reduced exponentially, whereas an Artist can’t. “… Art and Ego are impossible to separate. Egotist Circumvents Time-Traveller Principle!