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Continue reading →: Between Two Worlds: meet PodPod is the protagonist and narrator of the Pod of Capricorn series – both Between Two Worlds and its sequel. In Earth terms he’s in the second half of his teens, but they’re not on Earth, and the word teenager is not part of the Capricorn Basic vocabulary. It’s not…
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Continue reading →: Capricorn Basic, or How I created a dialect of English and then wrote 160,000 words in itIt started with ent. No, not Tolkien’s trees. I’d been writing the first draft of the then-untitled Between Two Worlds in standard contemporary British English. And then a character — probably Pod, the protagonist and narrator — said something like “I ent sorry.” (I know, it was me doing the…
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Continue reading →: Between Two Worlds: behind the titleWhy did I choose Between Two Worlds as the title for my next book? My favourite titles have layers: multiple meanings that you only truly comprehend once you’ve read the book. The title The Pauline Conversion, for example, is a literal biblical reference to the conversion of Paul the Apostle,…
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Continue reading →: The inspiration for Between Two WorldsAs the release of Between Two Worlds comes closer, I thought I’d write a little about the background and inspiration for the book. As I’ve mentioned here before, the idea poked into my consciousness as an opening exchange of dialogue. I can exclusively reveal that the first lines I wrote…
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Continue reading →: Between Two Worlds: the cover
Here’s the cover for Between Two Worlds: I love it. Expect to see this image everywhere on this site and across socials before too long. The cover shows a stylised view of two figures walking along the tread of the wheel — the inside surface where people live and work.…
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