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You have not yet read THE SPECTACLE THAT IS JACK COQ AND HIS AMAZING ANATOMIE. Why is that? You wound me. I am hurt.

Would you be so kind as to remedy this omission and, thereby, ease my pain?

I make no empty promises. I offer you no salvation. I give you only my gratitude for the generous gift of your time and attention which you spend so selflessly in the pursuit of The One Great Read. This might be the one, my friend. And you are my friend, are you not? It brings a lump to my throat.

May Jenkins smile upon you and keep you comfortable.






Please refrain from licking the goats.


Thank you.


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The Spectacle that is Jack Coq....

Arlequin Pigg

You are in the madhouse. You are in a play in the madhouse. The play is about you.


This is the tale of a man who is struck by lightning, loses his identity because of it, is burned bald and blue by it, thrown in gaol as a consequence of it, and ends up in some monstrous carnival in a madhouse about it. That man is Jack. Alas, poor Jack. Even his name is not his own.
Ha!
Imagine that. Imagine this.
Jack speaks in his own vernacular, a mixture of criminal cant as heard in the alleys, and words he makes up. He challenges. He provokes. He kills, so it is said. Not everything he says is true. Not everything that happens is real. And not everyone is his friend.
Jack seeks freedom.
He is haunted by images of storms. He has no memory of a self before an event he does not recall. And that troubles him. Yet, he comes to know himself as he is. Jack comes to understand what it is to be alive.
This, then, is a dark fairy tale about the juxtaposition of life and death when the latter beckons. Life; or death? This is one interpretation of that reality.
Taste it.
Feel it.
Be consumed.

 

Handbook on Killing

Anthony Saunders

A plain-English guide to weapons, wounds and death



HANDBOOK ON KILLING is a guide to weapons, fights, death and injury for everyone with an interest, personal or professional, in the history of human conflict, anyone who studies it, writes about it or is simply fascinated by it.

And it’s for writers of fiction. Writing believable fight scenes is not easy. Writing believable death scenes is even harder. Yet, improbable fights with preposterous killings push readers out of the narrative and send them away dissatisfied. It all comes down to plausibility.

This book is about weapons and what they do to people. It puts them into historical context and explains the nature of the injuries they inflict on or off a battlefield. It's about fights, brawls, duels, battles and murder.

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS

 

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Hayley Green wrote 1 hour ago

Just to say thanks for backing Accidents will happen - really appreci....

John Bayliss wrote 3 hours ago

Huge thanks for backing "Serpentine". I really appreciate it! best....

mongoose wrote 18 days ago

Equally a pleasure. It was time it had another twirl up there. :) ....

mongoose wrote 19 days ago

Thanks so much! Reassuring as I know you don't twaddle. jx

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I wrote 15 days ago

This story is about decadence and descent into depravity and as such it has a lot of appeal. While you can clearly put a complex story across in a way that engages the reader, my concern is the nature of the first-person narrative. For me, it lacks emotional depth in that the character telling the s... view book

I wrote 21 days ago

This works very well as a sequel. It would also stand alone and make you go and read Samael if you hadn't read it first. The narrative moves along at a cracking pace as it does in Samael and you have the mystery at the start about whether Gen is going back for him. I do wonder if you dwell too much ... view book

I wrote 75 days ago

You certainly know Dorset. This story is high romance (is there such a term?) and as such the action has more than a tinge of melodrama about it. In that sense, it rather harks back to Georgette Heyer and Rafael Sabatini (although he had heroes rather than heroines). The idea of a young woman runnin... view book

I wrote 82 days ago

Ha! In the nuthouse. I am intrigued because you, like me, have a character in the madhouse, although yours is set in different era (about 150 years difference). The sense of time and place is well drawn and clearly different from my scenario. For me, a first-person narrative needs the 'narrator' to ... view book

I wrote 85 days ago

This has the feel of what you might call fictionalised memoir, rather in the vein of Robert Graves and Goodbye to All That. By that, I mean his ‘memoir’ was a structured ‘fiction’ based on his experiences. Your story is dark and disturbing, there is no doubt, a harsh tale of survival. The opening ep... view book

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