Fiction

Flowers of Baghdad

Published by Harper Collins this novel set in Baghdad has its roots in this blog. Many of the blogs written in Baghdad found their way into the book pretty much in their entirety.

Blogs (2007)

6 Sep Baghdad Short Finals

7 Sep  Iraq’s Ozymandias

7 Sep What is Normal in Baghdad?

11 Sep Guns and Dogs, Dogs and Guns

13 Sep An Evening in Baghdad

15 Sep There is Nothing Like Death to Make You feel Alive

15 Sep It is all A Matter of Perspective

17 Sep My Name is Malik and I Live in Baghdad (the origins of the novel)

17 Sep Baghdad Layers

18 Sep An Obscenity We Don’t See or Feel – Is Still an Obscenity

20 Sep Mandela’s Answer to Iraq

23 Sep 970,000 casualties – Is Iraq Worth it?

9 Oct Post Iraq Muse – An Introspective

Flowers of Baghdad page (being built)

Black and White with Colour

A very satisfying collection of creative writing from a Writing Group called Fast Twitch.

“Black and White with Colour” This anthology contains surprisingly good short pieces of writing and poetry. The authors are part of an informal writers group in Sydney Australia. Many (most) are published here for the first time and, prior to joining this group some authors had never written any creative pieces at all. Which makes the innovation and creativity published in this volume all the more remarkable. Some of the vignettes here were written in response to short exercises written at their monthly meetings while more complex pieces were written over a longer period of time. There is some clever structure and craftsmanship in a number of the articles though in all of the submissions there is an obvious desire to tell a good, rounded out story. A special feature of Black and White with Colour is the number of young authors who have contributed to the anthology. It adds rather than detracts from the work and is a measure of their wide ranging passion for writing. Their younger authors are treated as equals and being published in this way can only be a great encouragement to them. Some in the group read King’s On Writing – “just write” is his injunction. So they just wrote, had fun doing so, and this is the pleasing and readable result.

We published the book on Lulu.com and you can purchase the book with them here.

Goat on the Menu

A second collection of creative writing pieces which followed on from Black and White With Colour. From the same Fast Twitch writers group.

Want some inspired writing? You can find it here at Lulu.com