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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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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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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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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One of the great weaknesses that Rupert Ramsgate has is a procrastination gene. (Along with a packrat gene). This results in extended gestation periods for any projects. Books of Loukas first appeared in nascent form as a sketch 6 years ago. It finally coalesced to a book series 5 years ago, and a draft book was created in the Spring of 2018. Since then, a lot of things have happened, including Covid-19, and progress has
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