Well, the live chat on the internet radio show seemed to go very well. A number of you contacted me afterwards saying you missed it or couldn’t manage to get to hear it, and could I do anything about it. Well - it turns out, yes I can. Or rather, my very clever computer-savvy pal Jules could!
In fact, if you go back to the HOME page here, then take a look to the right, you’ll notice a small side-bar titled HOME. The third link down is called INTERVIEWS. Click on that and it will take you to a page on my site where you can listen to the entire hour long show - as often as you like!
Something else is also coming up that I think you might find interesting. I’ve been asked by Harper Collins (the publisher of The Faerie Path series) to do a “podcast” - basically a talk about myself and my books that you will be able to listen to online whenever you like. I don’t have the exact details of how you will be able to access this yet, but I’m due to do the talking on Friday, so you should be able to listen to it next week. More info as and when.
So, as they say - watch this space - because not only will the podcast include a talk by me about my writing and my plans - it will also include the very first sneak-peek of The Charmed Return - a whole chapter read by me!
When will you put up the first chapter of the charmed return? For my children story I plan to have it be about 20 chapters and if it is made into a novel then I will have it be 25 chapters. Anna’s Uncle, Lucian is also a writer but he uses a journal that is made of recyled paper. They don’t have anyone who publishes books in the villags but it they go to the city on Avanaria then they can. Did you draw your The immortal faerie realm map which is at the first page of the book?
Just listened to the radio show, Mr.Jones you sound so young!
It was fun listening:)can you make a list of the books you mentioned?They sound fasinating!
This is a random thought but could cordelia be the dream weaver thats helping tania? while sick she went to tania in her dreams and told her where to start,I think it would be cool if she could communicate through the animals and see through their eyes while shes sick, kinda like her spirit is shared with theirs. anyways just a thought, I dont remember right off the facts about the dream weaver so I’m most likely totally wrong LOL
AFJ. B.L.H. - I’m thinking of posting a couple of chapters of The Charmed Return in the Christmas Week - as a kind of Christmas Present for everyone for being so very patient this year. Yes, I did draw the map of Faerie.
Mandy - you’ll find a list of my favourite books right here on this site - just go to the HOME page and check out the sidebar on the right - click on FAVOURITE THINGS - the books are all listed there. Bear in mind that some of them are over a hundred years old and you might find them quite hard going.
I do like that idea of Cordelia being the Dream Weaver and “seeing” what is going on through the eyes of her animals. That’s a really great idea.
I am using Long Ago instead of Once Upon a time. Does your cat love ice cream even though it is bad for pets? Is it hot in London?
AFJ. B.L.H. Long Ago is probably better. Yes, our cat loves ice cream and butter and stuff like that - but she only gets it occasionally. It is very far from hot here in London - minus 4 degrees and heaps of snow!! Frozen Britain, they are calling it.
we have only gotten a few flakes of snow where i am! i dont find this fair snow should be evenly spaced out around the world
AFJ. Liz - I totally agree with you..except that I don’t really want to share snow falls with Alaska and Antarctica and Siberia to even things out, thanks. But if you’d like to come over with a shovel, you’re welcome to some of ours. Actually, you’ve left it too late - in London mot of it has already gone. they’re having a couple more inches in the North of England and in Scotland, though.
Have you written a story from a poem?
AFJ. Nothing directly from a poem, but I have been inspired by things in poems, and I’ve put them in my books - poems such as Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson and The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser and various works by W B Yeats and Shakespeare and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others.