Books of Loukas

NEWS – Belem publishes, Podcast interview, Books of Loukas

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Belem publishes! After many kicks up the arse (that’s English for “ass”, for you Americans), Belem has started publishing his first story series on Medium. Moth, Meet Flame is about some of the big-city adventures of Julia, the troublesome daughter of an aristocratic English family. Julia, like her mother, has a dangerous sex drive, and it has been noticed by another woman, who steps into Julia’s space in a pub in London and proceeds to […]

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Kirk Hallam

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Kirk Hallam is a travel writer, who has spent a lot of time in the entire South Coast, especially Loukas. He will shortly have his own web site. In the short term, he is posting some of his writings and hand-drawn maps here. Here is his history and overview of Loukas. This is the hand-drawn map of Loukas by Kirk, which he gave to the lead server at Blue Sea Bar, who added more information

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Books of Loukas – Hermann the cat

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I was on Twitter (as you tend to be from time to time) and found a thread where a writer was asking if anybody had a cat as a character in their books. Well now, dear fellow writer, it just so happens that…there is indeed a cat in the Books of Loukas. A tuxedo named Hermann, who, like many cats, was rescued from the streets of Old Loukas, where he was scrapping for a living,

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How to describe the Books of Loukas? The Quandary

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I have taken to describing Books of Loukas as “33% mermaids, 33% fantasy and 33% smut” over the last few months when asked to provide a summary of the position of the books in the weird classification zone that we call “genre”. I settled on that description after a while, since it seems to encapsulate the main positioning elements of the books in the whole sphere of fiction. I concluded a long time ago that the

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Books of Loukas – appeal for beta readers

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When I completed the first draft of Book 1 of this series in the Spring of 2018, I immediately sent it in ebook form to a couple of dozen friends. That was a mistake. It was a mistake for 2 reasons: 1. Friends are not the correct people to ask to be reviewers. They often are unwilling to tell you what you need to hear (one lady friend flat-out refused to review it, her comment

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