about me

I'm grateful for the generous feedback I received here, which improved my writing no end. I had to work for it. My best advice for newcomers - if you want feedback, give it ☼

I can be contacted through my website (blog,) see link below, where I post weekly what's on my mind and occasionally share short stories in instalments.

The few chapters posted here do not reflect edits and changes. The novel is complete at 120 000 words and has been re-named.

I have recently signed a publishing agreement with a small, devoted publisher. 'Cabal of Mirrors' will be released as e-book and POD in spring 2014.

A sequel I'm working on loops into the future - and is both a Science of the Heart and a Science Fiction.

A bit about me appeared on the authonomy blog:
http://blog.authonomy.com/2011/01/authonomy-showcase-ashen-venema.html

There are BRILLIANT BOOKS on the authonomy site. Since they would make a long list, I mention only one, for impact - it's on my shelf - deeply touching and original ... 'Last Days of the Transitional Objects Institute' by Andrea Levine.

favourite books

Authors ...

1001 Nights - 1001 Nights - 1001 Nights - 1001 Nights

Grimm Brother's, Alice, Huckleberry, Jack Vance, 2 Banks, J.L. Borges, I. Allende, Garcia Marquez, D. Lessing, Ian Mc Ewan, Murakami, S.Faulks, R.Eco, Anthony Stevens, Seamus Heaney, E. Dickinson, C.G. Jung, T.S. Eliot, Ibn Arabi, Rumi ....
Start again - Joseph Campbell, F. Herbert, Harper Lee, C. Ruiz Zafon, BB, The Little Green Men go down the Stream, Ramsay Wood - Kalila and Dimna, Selected Fables of Bidpai, Muriel Spark, R. Chandler, Fowles, Italio Calvino, J. L. Borges, Bruce Chatwin, Sebald, Markus Zusak, Idries Shah, Tahir Shah .... Course of Mirrors ...

my websites

http://www.courseofmirrors.wordpress.com