Often when I read science fiction I tend to read the classics like, H.G.Wells, or Arthur C. Clarke. There is something about their style and storytelling that I find enduring and even attractive. Many modern writers have too much street talk for my tastes. I prefer thing to be written in full, not a collection [...]
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The Travelers Companion
Posted: 11th April 2012 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, ebooks, Horsham Writers, Mathew E C Bridle, Sci Fi
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Effortless Marketing: Jeff Rivera
Posted: 26th March 2012 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, merketing, selling stuff
EFFORTLESS MARKETING: How I Sold Thousands of eBooks, Landed an Agent and a Book Deal in Just 10 Minutes a Day Using Message Boards by Jeff Rivera My rating: 4 of 5 stars Can a book give any decent help or advice if it only cost a dollar? Answer: Yes. Jeff delivers a system, not [...]
Get ready for the main event Of the aquatic year. Athletes from every ocean Are expected to appear. The line up is amazing! Punters jostle round for space, Or place their bets at Coral’s. It is odds on for The Plaice. The starter waves a flipper. The contestants form a line. Oh [...]
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin To raise the goosebumps Underneath your skin. I’m told that live ones like To slumber snug. So I’ll put in your bed A little bug. Now what else is it I’m to be about? Ah yes! Them candles. Watch me blow ‘em out. I’ll [...]
I have been overtaken By a quite unusual name. It is the very first one Upon which I can lay claim. I am quite proud to own it. There aren’t many of our kind. But there’s one thing about it That, alas, I start to mind. When I say, ‘I’m a Twyman. [...]
I lie in the lounge on my afternoon bed. A million frayed nerve ends arc over my head. The light in the sky is a bright steely grey: The mottled effect of a blustery day. The trees silhouette. Every branch, limb and twig Thrusts in lignin defiance. They don’t give a fig For a [...]
The Definition of Love
Posted: 15th January 2012 by Ruth in Member's Blogs, Poetry, Ruth's BlogTags: love, poem, ruth lockyear
So what is love? What does it mean; This thing that hits so suddenly? It strikes from nowhere; moves unseen And to the heart its arrows fly. Before we have a chance to hide, It seeks us out unerringly, And causes stutters, heat inside, Which turns to blush when love’s nearby. Where the defence to [...]
Someone moved the goalposts while I was not looking so my well- aimed kick at crossbar drifted tamely into touch . Fervent , red – faced referee blew hard upon his whistle and brought the game to a halt though all those others kept on playing scoring tries from their own pitch half . [...]
The Accused – Constance Briscoe
Posted: 26th October 2011 by Phil in Book Review, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, Crime, Murder
For the past month I have hardly been at home but as one of the titles was violent murder, a subject right up my street, I may save this homework for another month. However, rather than be completely blank I have a little to say on a book I read recently which may give some sort of [...]