Chris Page

Sneaky peek

chrispagefiction — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:42:04 +0000

Well, it had to happen eventually. Despite my best efforts to stay in a bottle, I have drafted a cover for Un-Tall Tales, the paperback collection of short stories, and the thing is now in the pre-printing stage where the clever gnomes in the land of POD scrutinize the book files and eventually tell me in no uncertain terms I’ve done it wrong again, and even if I had done it right, no one would want to buy something with such a willfully scruffy cover.

But then the gnomes have never heard of Spike Milligan. Ha!

Hopefully, Un-Tall Tales the paperback will be out in about a month barring any outbreaks of gnome-rot in the land of POD.

What do you think?

Weed sprouts on Kyoto After Dark

chrispagefiction — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:27:12 +0000

I would like to express a huge debt of thanks to Kym Hutcheon of Kyoto After Dark for putting up a very large and froody interview about Weed and related things on the KAD site.

The splash is much larger and indulging than I could have hoped for or deserve. I am afraid I rambled on far too long, for which I apologise. I’m afraid that’s me being brief.

Kyoto After Dark is your key to the ancient city. The site offers an introduction to places to feed and water yourself, as well as cluing you in on culture and entertainment.

So that’s Kyoto After Dark, folks. Pop in for a beer.

Extract of Weed

chrispagefiction — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:27:37 +0000

In order to tantalise those few people in the universe who have yet to read the novel Weed, wot I rote, I have decided to post the occasional extract.

Today’s excerpt is from p98:

toppled

I thank you.

Watch this space for more excerpts and other exciting things coming in the next life or another.

A tall tale

chrispagefiction — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:51:01 +0000

I am making progress with the paperback Un-Tall Tales. It will feature all the stories and nonsense from the ebook Shorts, plus two extra short stories, ‘Dumb Novel’ and ‘The Escapologist’. The text is pretty much edited and formatted and I now have to get to grips with the cover.

Watch this space but don’t hold your breath.

Weedy reviews

chrispagefiction — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:11:27 +0000

Writing novels is a lot easier than marketing them.

I don’t write for money. Playing the lottery is a more reliable way to earn a living than writing. However, it would be nice to get Weed and Shorts (and Un-Tall Tales when I get the damn thing prepared) a bit noticed.

I’m trying all sorts of things and I will fulminate bloggily about that one day when I have a mo. But not today.

One small but helpful way to get one’s publications better noticed is to have reader’s reviews on Kindle and Amazon. If any good soul out there has read either publication and felt like jotting down a few thoughts on Kindle/Amazon, I would be tremendously grateful — to the point of proffering a beverage if ever in the same neighbourhood.

Weed the paperback is here.

Kindle Weed is here.

Kindle Shorts is here.

I could go on the sites and write my own reviews — but if anyone saw me doing it, they’d think I was a sneaky bastard and I might get given a job at News International and I wouldn’t like that a bit.

Artist in perpetual motion

chrispagefiction — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:56:53 +0000

Seitaro Kuroda at work

My article about Seitaro Kuroda, artist, in Kansai Scene: click here.

It was a whoppingly good afternoon hanging out with the gentleman and a rare treat for me because I spend so much time editing and managing, I don’t often get to do articles or point the camera at anything other than my foot.

Osama bin Killed

chrispagefiction — Wed, 04 May 2011 12:11:43 +0000

No tears to shed over the death of Osama Bin Laden, but what happened in Abbottabad was an act of extra-judicial execution.

Now, I thought that in the ‘war’ against Al Qaida the west was supposed to be the good team and one of the things that distinguished us from the bad guys was stuff like habeas corpus, due process, visible justice and so on.

None of that applied when OBL was shot so what is the US fighting for?

Sunday

chrispagefiction — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:18:35 +0000

Trying to get on top of neglected magazine work while following the earthquake news. Son 2 practicing drums downstairs, Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love a Bad Name’. Military helicopters thudder overhead. Elsewhere, people are struggling for their lives, nuclear reactors melting down.

Weed the novel in paperback and available through Amazon

chrispagefiction — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:20:50 +0000

At long, long last, the paperback version of Weed is available on Amazon, right here.

O, frabjous day! Calooh! Callay!

It’s only taken more years and tries than I would care to count, but, well, bloody mindedness will out.

Now, I have to market the bloody thing. There, I am clueless. I read that Facebook is one avenue but I am not sure what to do with it, so if anyone has any ideas, you know where to send them.

You won’t find a paperback version of Shorts on Amazon yet, because I haven’t arranged one. And when I do, it will not longer be called Shorts, because it’s an over used name.

I’ll be boring everyone with news of that project as we go along.

Meanwhile, I should now go get my pencil out and do something with it because with Weed in paperback I have one less reason for procrastination.

Weed at Whitcoulls

chrispagefiction — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:40:35 +0000

Weed the ebook has shown up at New Zealand online outlet Whitcoulls. Click here.

However, I think the people of New Zealand have bigger things on their mind at the moment than my facetious little book.