A Distant Prospect – ISBN 9780987435101

Outside Heaven’s Sway

Today, I cleaned my workspace. It feels like years since I properly cleaned my workspace, judging from the arachnid condominium being constructed between my bureau and the wall. The thick dust, random papers (superannuation letters, excerpts from Dante, an article on gold prices in Turkey in World War II), outmoded […]

Refreshing my Workspace

November 16, 2023 in Book production / By Violence Unavenged / In the Hearts of Kings / Outside Heaven's Sway tagged By Violence Unavenged / In the Hearts of Kings / Music and Writing / Outside Heaven's Sway / Workspace / Writing by annette

Deception. Jazz. Sabotage. Betrayal. Aided by her resourceful Turkish admirer, Kerem Solak, Phoebe tracks her mother’s murderer in Paris. But when war erupts, what is more important? Revenge or romance? War, however, has little respect for choice, especially once Europe flounders in the mire of Nazism. And when Phoebe encounters […]

Outside Heaven’s Sway is Underway!

February 23, 2022 in Outside Heaven's Sway by annette

Marc Chagall, The White Crucifixion 1938 — It’s been over a year since the release of By Violence Unavenged – a year of death, heatwaves, fires, floods, injuries, illness, job loss, pestilence, and house renovations. I have had neither time nor energy to write. Yesterday, all that changed. I spent an quiet hour in a cafe and […]

Writing Outside Heaven’s Sway

October 21, 2020 in Outside Heaven's Sway / Writing by annette

It’s been months since I’ve posted; mainly because I’ve been at hammer and tongs finishing By Violence Unavenged. Now, quite frankly, I’m terrified. Terrified the new book is going to flop. Terrified at coming out of my shell to peddle my wares. Terrified of deadlines. Terrified of writing Volume Two, […]

Leech Gathering #12: And so, from hour to hour…

December 7, 2018 in Annette / By Violence Unavenged / Outside Heaven's Sway / Writing by annette