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I am a writer and a film technician - script supervisor and re-write hack... in London where I live, and the U.S., as well as many far-flung jungles with some of the finest Directors and greatest actors ever to grace the screen.

(Main - i.e. *major* Screen credits on US.ImdB) In returning to my first love of books, (fed up with and semi-retired from the film industry...), I have completed 2 novels, and several short stories (one published as below) -

*The Fortune of Annacara* - (New Title!!!) Complete at 127,555 words. An excerpt of 18 chapters is showcased here.

It's a story about my ancestors, as I imagined their lives. They did go on the Klondike Gold Rush, struck it big and lived through it, though the gold, sadly, is gone..The answer as to who stole it, lies here........
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"RANCHO HOLLYWOODLAND" - complete at c.120,000 words - (Not uploaded here)..... A novel of the 30s that follows the fortunes of the descendants of 'The Fortune of Annacara' characters, and the gold... It is a tale of Hollywood chicanery versus Washington racketeering, both brought to their knees by the power of the Press.
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A short story - A NUGGET OF GOLD - is published in a U.S. Anthology titled *WORDS TO MUSIC* - with Mayor Biggie and a host of Authonomites. All proceeds are going to U.S. Charities inc Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1456532081

Also now available on Kindle.
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I have also researched, drafted and begun a thriller - "The Sleeping Indian" - a conspiracy theory brought frighteningly to life. There are, too,.outlines of quite a few other novels and screenplays, including two more thrillers, tales of my American pioneering ancestors of 1630-1800s, and more stories from the Klondike and Hollywood. Ah, and some animal tales, furred, finned, and feathered.
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Contact via HarperCollins only - or email Authonomy AT HarperCollins DOT co DOT uk for vetted referral. Thanks.
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favourite books

Classics - e.g. Nostromo (after the first 15 pages or so...); The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Gone With the Wind, Ramona - and my heroine carries the book as her one friend in the world...
Works set in exotic places, preferably, or with exotic, colorful characters who make me give a damn about the plot.

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Acres of Diamonds

Kay Christine Fenton

A fortune in gold is at stake, in an age of pioneering grit and sheer, glittering greed.


ANNACARA is an Apache servant, given fanciful dreams through piano lessons by an officer’s lady at a fort in 1896. LARNE is a Cavalryman, whose obsessive love for Annacara has him taking her to meet his patrician family in San Francisco.

Exiled to Chinatown, Larne sees a steamboat full of men caked in gold arriving from the mighty Yukon, and he seizes the chance. That rip-roaring hell of a stampede, and a gold mine, test their courage and love when faced by those whose sole aim in life is to dance on the grave of anyone more blessed:- an ex-aristocrat, his woman and her actress daughter, so-called friends, family. All inflame Annacara's warrior instincts to devastating effect. A man lies dead, a child kidnapped, the gold gone, and Larne lost.

Searching for answers back in Chinatown, the 1906 earthquake forces Annacara and a troupe of showgirls to trek down the Camino Real mission trail to Los Angeles.

The keys to the gold, the child, and to Larne, are found there as Hollywood’s notoriety grows. People disappear, gold disappears - but is never far. Neither is that glittering greed.

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Wussyboy wrote 5 hours ago

Thank you, dear Kay, what a wonderful, wonderful comment, it nearly m....

annaleanime8 wrote 6 hours ago

I need people to read my story. I want to hear their opinion on it, b....

Kathy K G wrote 7 hours ago

I'm a huge old Hollywood fan. And I mean OLD Hollywood; from the teen....

carol jefferies wrote 21 hours ago

Hi Kay, Yes I have read your book 'The Fortune of Annacara' before....

Kathy K G wrote 1 day ago

I love 'Acres of Diamonds'! It makes me think of Hollywood in the twe....

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I wrote 6 hours ago

Oh, Joe, where did you get the capacity to make me (and probably several thousand others) laugh out loud one minute, and weep the next? Your story has the gilded masks of Comedy and Tragedy all over it, yet we know it's not such make-believe. It's real and raw as the day is long. Your life - and... view book

I wrote 4 days ago

Carol, I'd never have thought a haunting tale such as this could be so enjoyable. You've given us a classic, I believe, with touches of laugh-out-loud humour in the midst of a beautifully written, historical story - yet ratched up the tension enough to give readers a creeping dread as to what might ... view book

I wrote 25 days ago

Mick, feeling *as lonely as a sparrow in the rain* got me straight in the heart. I've read all 7 chapters uploaded here, and can see this has a literary quality all its own. The writing is beautiful, yet it's true as God is my Witness, so to speak. The opening is gentle, but then comes the jolt ... view book

I wrote 34 days ago

Well, drive an eighteen-wheeler through my open mouth, miss Sheri!! I'd seen your book on some friends' shelves, and liked the cut of your blurb so much I had to come by and read it. I'm really glad I did. Your writerly voice through Harper is warm and real, contrasting with the sassy, maybe selfish... view book

I wrote 38 days ago

Max, I think I'm too breathless to leave a coherent comment... thud-thud-thud... But I'll say this: echoing Clarice Starling, (a little), you have a rabidly sick serial killer who thinks someone rude to cut him up on the road... Mind you, he's got a point. I'm still reading - it's heart-stopping.... view book

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