Paradise Jazz
A slightly different post today. No fiction, just bare-faced advertising...
Buy Paradise Jazz by Kat Pomfret!
"My growing up was poetic; the kind that everybody likes to read about but nobody wants to have. In print, my childhood was one gigantic laugh-out-loud Christmas TV spectacular (things are certainly funnier in the past tense than the present) but the truth is, for Mom, Tantie, Jimmy and me, life was like jambalaya; plenty of flavour and lots of good things but, looked at one way, nothing to hold it all together, and, looked at another, Lord, you try unpicking one thing from another. And the unravelling begins for the first time with a bowl of sugar doughnuts, begins over again with a first-class ticket for flight 181 and a bottle of Freixenet, then begins for real the night Sanderson Miller walked into Paradise Jazz and heard a soul-dark girl singing white hot blues."
She's a very talented young British writer, Paradise Jazz is her debut novel and it's released today. It's available direct from Snowbooks, the publisher, or of course Amazon.
PS Kat Pomfret can now be unveiled as Ecks' mystery short-fiction-writing-challenge buddy, and as she was being consumed by the whirlwind of activity surrounding the release of her book last week she asked that the short story challenge set last week, "Punk", be delayed. So Ecks is sorry to report to those expecting a sizzling fictional piece about violence, piercings and phlegm that they will have to wait (although the mysteriously named yet efficient Belle Nuit has already composed a piece).
P.P.S. Yet another friend of Ecks has started a blog. There's a lot of it about, apparently.
Buy Paradise Jazz by Kat Pomfret!
"My growing up was poetic; the kind that everybody likes to read about but nobody wants to have. In print, my childhood was one gigantic laugh-out-loud Christmas TV spectacular (things are certainly funnier in the past tense than the present) but the truth is, for Mom, Tantie, Jimmy and me, life was like jambalaya; plenty of flavour and lots of good things but, looked at one way, nothing to hold it all together, and, looked at another, Lord, you try unpicking one thing from another. And the unravelling begins for the first time with a bowl of sugar doughnuts, begins over again with a first-class ticket for flight 181 and a bottle of Freixenet, then begins for real the night Sanderson Miller walked into Paradise Jazz and heard a soul-dark girl singing white hot blues."
She's a very talented young British writer, Paradise Jazz is her debut novel and it's released today. It's available direct from Snowbooks, the publisher, or of course Amazon.
PS Kat Pomfret can now be unveiled as Ecks' mystery short-fiction-writing-challenge buddy, and as she was being consumed by the whirlwind of activity surrounding the release of her book last week she asked that the short story challenge set last week, "Punk", be delayed. So Ecks is sorry to report to those expecting a sizzling fictional piece about violence, piercings and phlegm that they will have to wait (although the mysteriously named yet efficient Belle Nuit has already composed a piece).
P.P.S. Yet another friend of Ecks has started a blog. There's a lot of it about, apparently.
posted by Ecks Ridgehead at
6/01/2005 09:00:00 am
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