Rupert – Book Projects

2024 Election – Writing Impact

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So, the 2024 General Election is over in the USA, and the authoritarians have won. Leaving aside the whole area of principled and unyielding resistance to fascists and assholes, which I totally support, the main personal question for authors is; how will this affect your writing? I have to confess that my writing (as in the Hammering phase, putting prose down) has been pretty much stalled for the last 6 months. Ideation and Percolation have […]

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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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The New Society – A Belem teaser

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For several years I (Rupert) have been working on a futuristic novel series, with the working title of The New Society. It is set in California and other exotic locales in the time period 2026-2035. During this time period, a mysterious pandemic wipes out 90% of the men in the world. At the same time, the USA splits into three new federations. The society that emerges from the resulting upheavals is rather different. Firstly, it

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Vacation – Ideation and Percolation

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We recently returned from a week’s vacation in St. Maarten. St. Maarten is still recovering from Hurricane Irma in September 2017, exactly 4 years ago. A significant percentage of buildings are still not repaired or re-opened after that event. When we went there in 2014 we stayed at the Orient Bay nudist resort. The resort was mostly destroyed, and has yet to be rebuilt. Kind of sad to see derelict shells and roofless buildings where

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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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