I’ve been working on my next novel Flipside for a couple of months now; when I came to edit it, I found that the last third was missing. Fortunately I had hard copy so all I had to do was rewrite the last third… what a chore. I am not too bad as a typist but I have dyslexic fingers… anyway after a lot of thousand words, I am nearing the end. It has been a great way to edit the text, slashing and burning unwanted words as I go, but it is also arduous because it is not as creative as writing something new. never mind. I’m nearly finished.
Flipside is set in 1993, in Oldham, Lancashire and is he story of Jaz who falls in love with a man she barely knows… love at first sight (which I do believe really happens!) David, her beloved has been invalided out of the army (or maybe the SAS or a unit even more secret and undercover) with post traumatic shock disorder. Whilst serving somewhere abroad he was captured and tortured, he also saw and did some terrible, terrible things which he doesn’t disclose to anyone. He suffers frightening nightmares where he becomes violent and aggressive…. Jaz knows this, but what she doesn’t know is whether his nightmares leech over into his days… is her responsible for the mutilation and murder of three women? Jaz is attacked but the police believe her wounds are self-inflicted to try to prove David is innocent; now she is in danger, David has a gun but will he use it to harm or save her?
I have reached the last two chapters which I hope will be an exciting and unexpected climax to the story. Once I’ve finished writing them out then the really boring labour begins… editing, editing, editing… checking. checking, checking…. and then with any luck you will be able to read Flipside! With any luck it will be available on July 22nd! (You are the first to know the release date!)
Lois Elsden 
The Landscape and the Fall of Icarus may be my favorite painting of all time, I would recognize those legs anywhere!
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It is a tremendous picture, isn’t it – do you know the poem by William Carlos Williams inspired by it? http://loiselden.com/2012/09/26/fall/
It’s the sort of picture that the more you look the more you see!
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I love William Carlos Williams. I actually got really into his work when I was reading – of all things – It by Stephen King. The story had bits and pieces by him and I just fell in love! Paterson is sitting on my nightstand and it never moves!
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I am sorry to say I only know a few poems by him… I must find Paterson, and read and enjoy! thank you for mentioning it!
I think it’s wonderful the way what anyone reads meshes together in the must unexpected was – as with you and Stephen King, Icarus and W.C.W!
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A good writer shows bits of themselves in what they write, and if you like that writer then it easily influences you. That was how I discovered Nelson DeMille and Elmore Leonard just to name two.
I am reading a book now that mention Dan Rather on David Letterman after the towers hit that I totally forgot about. He came on and cried – then vehemently apologized for doing so, saying it was his job not to be emotional. I went back and watched the clip and just sobbed – I couldn’t believe I had forgotten that.
Books are an amazing thing aren’t they? Finding the old and the new in them is one of my favorite things about reading.
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You are so right! this is why I am so passionate about getting people to read – and read all sorts of things, not just “literature” because it brings more than just stories and opens so many doors!
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I wholeheartedly agree! I cannot imagine a life without books, so many things I love came from some authors imagination. Books, authors, movies, music even flower – the possibilities are endless – especially the more you investigate it!
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