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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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Smokescreen Chapter 2
A vip under caution... Image made by me form PD elements in Canva.
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Smokescreen
Believe it or not, I wrote this as part of Nanowrimo 2007. This is Chapter One. A then near future dystopic policier where smoking was completely banned, like prohibition for liquor. You'll probably find this a bit dull, but by chapter three or four I think it has a bit of pull. Maybe I'll post those too. Here is the blurb from when I self-pubbed it badly at Bubok Prohibition: not booze, fags. Ray and Harry get wind of a lorry-load of illegal cigarettes and decide to hi-jack it at the point of delivery. Just outside Parliament. Ray and Harry recognise one of the customers. It's the Home Secretary. What can they do? A slightly revised version will be available on smashwords, eventually.
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This Circus Must Leave Town
Why did anyone think this buffoon would ever change?
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The Picture Ranch 62
What is going on? That makes Fisher, you and me who don't know... Licence CC-SA 3.0 Photographer Lars-Göran Lindgren, Sweden
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The Picture Ranch 61
Short and sour, like a bad cocktail.
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Hmm...
Posted on Fri, 18 Mar 2016
Almost everything you do has me thinking of gothic cathedrals and mediaeval buildings. Perhaps it's the ring o' roses I hear. Nice nod to the grumpy Librarian, too.
Yep, the no-win situation of low-self esteem. "I can't be any good because...
Read full commentPosted in Hereditary fears
Like...
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2016
All the best science fiction, this is our own present and reality viewed in a fun-house mirror. I'm going to read part two now. This is a great beginning. The voice is believable and distinctive. As it's 1st person POV you can get away with a...
Read full commentPosted in The Net Caster (Part One)
Not a word misplaced, not a
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
Not a word misplaced, not a superfluous line.
Marvellous.
regards
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in The sadness of tulips
There's
Posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016
nothing wrong with a long sentence, provided it's completely clear and you don't lose the reader on the way. Dickens was pretty good at sentences which sometimes seemed like Latin periods, but he was a dab hand with a semi and full colon. Unlike...
Read full commentPosted in the hungry earth (2 of 2)
I
Posted on Sun, 05 Oct 2014
...agree there's some nice description.
You need to avoid a tendency to tell. 'He had been able to avoid... etc.'
I'm not sure I believe the internal monologue in the paragraph beginning. 'He looked past the end...' You say the boy...
Read full commentPosted in K Ward - part 1 (Out of Sight)
That's
Posted on Thu, 02 Oct 2014
the very word, uncanny. Fascinating etymology it has too.
Nice to hear from you. I've been away a while, I know
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in By the Light of a Gibbous Moon
Confused
Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2014
Hey Jack, great pieces on an interesting day.
Just one thing:
"I offered Ewan a cheese sandwich, but he said his
Read full commentfriend had made him an old-fashioned bacon buttie. They’d been in the
army together. I went to sit on the...
Posted in Unbounders Away
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