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JD Revene

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I have just finished the beta draft of a rewrite of APPETITES and am sharing it with a few beta-readers (the version posted here is close to a year out of date, but I will post a few chapters of the new version after I've incorporate reader comments). The cover here is by the talented and generous Caroline Batten.

My email is: jdrevene@gmail.com or you contact me via my website, details below.

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favourite books

A Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes; One Day by David Nicholls; Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby; Everything I Knew by Peter Goldsworthy; An Equal Music by Vikram Seth; The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell; Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis; Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk; The Collector by John Fowles;
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos; and This Charming Man by Marian Keyes.

More generally: for the dialogue anything by Elmore Leonard; for settings integrated in the story anything by Ian Rankin or Michael Connelly; and for crisp writing Ernest Hemminway (I enjoy Cormac McCarthy too).

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Appetites

JD Revene

What would you do if your partner wanted you to invite a stranger into your bed?


The problems James and Sally face aren't unusual. The way they deal with them is.

James Harford and his wife Sal search for fulfillment in post-Olympics, pre-GFC, Sydney. Living in a consumption-driven society they have everything and it’s not enough. Then they pick up a charming stranger in a strip club, and one thing leads to the other.

Yes, that other.

Yearnings become all consuming. Sal seeks affirmation from a smorgasbord of men. James becomes close to another woman. Gnawing jealousy eats away at what they share. Mid-life crisis meets free-love and nobody’s satisfied.

Days that are going to change your life should come with a warning attached.

APPETITES is contemporary fiction and complete at 75k. A short synopsis is posted here at tab forty-eight.

[WARNING Contains sexually explicit adults only material]

 

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Steve Hawgood wrote 6 hours ago

JD - thanks for the feedback. I've had a full MS read rejected and ha....

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I wrote 4 hours ago

EJ, Long ago I promised to look at this. I imagine you'd given up expecting a read--and I'm embarassed to note that in the meantime you've made the desk, I don't visit often enough--but here I am. Let's start with the pitches, short and long. On the short I'm afraid I wouldn't have read it. Th... view book

I wrote 6 hours ago

Steve, A while since I've look at Hing Dai. It's come along. A couple of thoughts, mainly nitpicking stuff: -your first paragraph starts in present tense then switches to past, in which the narrative continue. A present tense opening cutting to past is not unusual, but I don't think I've ever ... view book

I wrote 6 hours ago

Steve, A while since I've look at Hing Dai. It's come along. A couple of thoughts, mainly nitpicking stuff: -your first paragraph starts in present tense then switches to past, in which the narrative continue. A present tense opening cutting to past is not unusual, but I don't think I've ever ... view book

I wrote 475 days ago

Interesting that you don't classify this as YA. For me it has that feel (though I suspect in an Animal Farm kind of way). Love that a month's allowance wouldn't buy a gallon of petrol! A few minor observations: The first para of the first chapter had a few echoes of 'out'. I'm not sure... view book

I wrote 492 days ago

From the One to Watch blog, here's what HC had to say: "A few people have been talking about the novel that I've chosen as this week's One to Watch, so if you've not read it yet, it's time to see what the fuss is about: Ramadan Sky by Victoria Hunter Ramadan Sky is a literary novel set in ... view book

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