John Baker’s Blog

Hi emile, i’m sitting in a small courtyard in =
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That feeling. It’s when a particularly long piece, like a novel, is finally in the bag. You know you’ve finished it. It’s over. It was your life for the last so many months, maybe years. And now it’s gone. It’s out in the world on its own little feet.
While you were involved with it lots [...]

A boy has to peddle his book, said Truman Capote. And with that in mind I’ve published the opening chapter of my latest novel, Winged with Death, on this blog. It’s rather lengthy, but you don’t have to read it all.
It will be published by Flambard Press in the early part of 2009..
I believe it [...]

“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I did an original sin. I poked a badger with a spoon.”
“Say five Hail Marys and six Hello Dollys.”
Eddie Izzard
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