The anthology, including one of my short stories – Full Moon over Tawi-Tawi, is now available both as an eBook and paperback. Look for it in your local bookshop, or order it from any of the global and regional online retailers, e.g. Amazon UK. Whether you already know and love Southeast Asia, or are curious about this, the most alluring and mysterious part of… Read More
An announcement to my readers around the world!
As this is the season of vacations despite the silly virus, I have made a decision to halt the weekly publishing of chapters from The Influence on my website. This will resume in September and continue until further notice. However, the printed novel will be available for purchase beginning of 2022, in hardcover and soon after that in paperback, with the first 100 hardcover… Read More
A pictorial guide to The Influence
For a novel to attract readers and continue to captivate them, it always needs to fulfil the three Ps: a twisty Plot, a believable Protagonist and an exotic Place. The plot is there (And, oh boy, you’ve no idea just how far it’s going to take you, do you?), as well as the protagonists (or possibly antagonists, it’s up to you to figure it… Read More
Amazing and atavistic Atauro, avidly appreciated by autonomous aquanauts
Have just finished – and celebrating it – the first sixty pages of East of East, with Johan, the main protagonist currently experiencing Atauro, one of the only two islands that are part of Timor-Leste and blessed with exceptional marine life, being part of the lesser Sunda Islands chain. To get me in the mood and remind me about a thing or two, I… Read More
A Flight of Fancy in Frivolous Figueres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuj3JEeeKns Andy Warhol was right. But he got the time wrong – my claim to fame only lasts 57 seconds. The clip is as bizarre and non-sequitur as is Dali’s audacious homage to surrealism. My second visit to his bastion of the absurd, and just as stunning as the first one. The town wasn’t bad either, with great food and wine, but would be… Read More