Books as Weapons
Greetings to Blogger-land!
a bit of a digital luddite myself I've finally succumbed to the blogg revolution primarily out of frustration, with the elitist cabal that is the literary review press under historical conditions of the further transition from postwar social democracy to the coercive state. If you're a generic crime writer whom no one has ever heard of, want to develop crime fiction intelligently as a paradigm of social and political investigation and condemn New Labour's betrayal of democratic socialism, its embrace of market forces and further erosion of British democracy as started under Thatcher then forget the middle class mutual appretiation society in the review press and broadsheets even noticing you exist.
This year I've published three crime novels set in my native Birmingham that form part of a second city/Jaded Jerusalem Quintet, all through lulu.com These are REDEMPTION SONGS, BARGAIN and POWER IN THE DARKNESS. All use the crime genre to explore the current social crisis and deal with issues such as police corruption, alienation and social exclusion, racism and fascism - in short, all the really important stuff that used to make British crime thrillers so great.
As an example, REDEMPTION SONGS has a dodgy black cop drawn into a conspiracy to set up a crime while BARGAIN has a Bosnian asylum seeker drawn into a vigilante conspiracy. POWER IN THE DARKNESS satirizes New Labour while having a Dissident Irish Republican and al-Qaeda terror plot in Birmingham manipulated by Right wing forces in the government and MI5.
Do I want to sell copies of these books???? You bet!! Do I want reviews???? You bet........Not just on this blogg but to ANY aite, (BLAIRWATCH, INDYMEDIA,) to which you may be linked. You can look up the books on LULU.COm or my own company web site which is www.blindsamurai.com On the other hand, you ought to be able to connect directly to the books on http://www.blindsamurai.com/presenting/nov_story/novstory.html
All feedback appreciated both to this bloggspot and my own e-mail address that is corkfilms@hotmail.com
Look forward to hearing from you.
Remember Gramsci's war on position. Let's build a bloggers counter-hegemony together
Yours in struggle and blogging
ROGER COTTRELL
a bit of a digital luddite myself I've finally succumbed to the blogg revolution primarily out of frustration, with the elitist cabal that is the literary review press under historical conditions of the further transition from postwar social democracy to the coercive state. If you're a generic crime writer whom no one has ever heard of, want to develop crime fiction intelligently as a paradigm of social and political investigation and condemn New Labour's betrayal of democratic socialism, its embrace of market forces and further erosion of British democracy as started under Thatcher then forget the middle class mutual appretiation society in the review press and broadsheets even noticing you exist.
This year I've published three crime novels set in my native Birmingham that form part of a second city/Jaded Jerusalem Quintet, all through lulu.com These are REDEMPTION SONGS, BARGAIN and POWER IN THE DARKNESS. All use the crime genre to explore the current social crisis and deal with issues such as police corruption, alienation and social exclusion, racism and fascism - in short, all the really important stuff that used to make British crime thrillers so great.
As an example, REDEMPTION SONGS has a dodgy black cop drawn into a conspiracy to set up a crime while BARGAIN has a Bosnian asylum seeker drawn into a vigilante conspiracy. POWER IN THE DARKNESS satirizes New Labour while having a Dissident Irish Republican and al-Qaeda terror plot in Birmingham manipulated by Right wing forces in the government and MI5.
Do I want to sell copies of these books???? You bet!! Do I want reviews???? You bet........Not just on this blogg but to ANY aite, (BLAIRWATCH, INDYMEDIA,) to which you may be linked. You can look up the books on LULU.COm or my own company web site which is www.blindsamurai.com On the other hand, you ought to be able to connect directly to the books on http://www.blindsamurai.com/presenting/nov_story/novstory.html
All feedback appreciated both to this bloggspot and my own e-mail address that is corkfilms@hotmail.com
Look forward to hearing from you.
Remember Gramsci's war on position. Let's build a bloggers counter-hegemony together
Yours in struggle and blogging
ROGER COTTRELL
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