This is my first try at a realistic story, about a young man
trying to sort out his life. Sam is
young, attractive and talented, but he is also thoughtless and selfish. He loves his musical career, but he wants to
do more than make a bare living at it.
He loves his girlfriend, but he’s tempted by other women. He is at a stage of trying to make decisions which
will affect his future.
Monday, 31 August 2015
Tuesday, 25 August 2015
Beds and Blue Jeans By Nadine Sutton. A taste!
Pattie’s
face, which had been tired but smiling, suddenly froze. She sat up rapidly. Her moods changed so fast….
“Oh I
see. I guess you’re out fucking some woman.
Where are you meeting her? What
time have you made the date? I’d hate to
disturb you by calling your cell phone.”
“No,
hell, no, honey, I ain’t. Don’t be so stupid. Honey? “
He tried to put his arms around her, but she pushed
him away and walked out of the room.
Slammed the door so that the little house almost shook. Oh God, he thought. He had made the date with
Sherry, but that might be best to cancel.
Saturday, 1 August 2015
BEDS AND BLUE JEANS a new novella by Nadine Sutton
Meet Sam, who is a young singer, who loves country and rock
music and his dream is to be successful in the music world. He’s never really wanted to do anything
else. He’s a handsome young man and
gets plenty of attention from female fans.
He likes the ladies, but he’s beginning to want something a bit deeper
and warmer than a sex session. He has a
woman in his life, and a kid but he’s not very happy. He meets other women, who seem to offer a
real close love affair, but he’s unsure what to do, or where to turn. He’s often selfish, and mixed up, but at
heart, he wants love.
Dennis Wheatley 1897-1977
I’ve just been re-reading a book by the now forgotten author
Dennis Wheatley. He was born in South
London, to a middle class family in 1897 and was sent to a good school (Dulwich
college), but was expelled, allegedly for forming a secret society. He wasn’t into schooling and then ended up in
the Merchant Navy.
Soon afterwards he served
as an officer in the First World War. His
family wine business occupied him after he left the army in 1919, but by the
1930s, it was doing badly and he decided to sell up and become an author. He wrote his first novel in 1932, but it
didn’t get published for some time.
He wrote historical and contemporary thrillers with a strong
military bent. He had war and “secret
ops” and propaganda experience which helped him with his plots. He also had some interest in the occult, and
wrote several Black Magic based thrillers though he always warned his readers
against getting involved in such things.
He was an extremely conservative thinker and felt that
Britain was “going to the dogs” and that socialist reforms would make people
lazy and weak. In his writing he usually
champions the conservative cause, backing the English Tories against the Whigs
and the British government against the French revolutionaries or Napoleon.
He published his first novel “Three Inquisitive People” in
1933 and it sold very well, and he went on with his writing career. His heroes
are usually aristocratic and independent minded and often pretty ruthless in
how they achieve their ends. He is not
greatly sympathetic to left wingers but he is usually fair to them, and while
there are times when he comes across as dated, and bigoted, generally speaking,
he was a good story teller. His works
are well researched and while he is not an elegant word smith, he knows how to
keep a readers’ attention and to be a page turner. His Gregory Sallust series,
about a former army officer who is involved in spying during World War Two, and
who marries a beautiful German aristocrat who is anti-Hitler, are said to have
been a partial inspiration for the James Bond novels.
His women characters are usually less active than the males,
but are often involved in spying as well, and they are not above using their
physical charms to lure people into confiding in them, and using sex appeal to
contribute to the causes they serve.
However, he is sympathetic to women, and usually if not
quite the equals of the male adventurers, they are seen as fairly much
equivalent. As a man of his time, he
does not like women to be quite as promiscuous as men, and doesn’t expect them
to be as active physically but there is definitely a role for them and he does
not criticise female characters for being sexually active, but celebrates it. One
of his best novels, Desperate Measures, convers the end of Napoleon’s reign,
and Waterloo, where Roger Brook, his British agent, uses his identity as
Colonel De Breuc to foil the Bonapartist cause, and tires to marry his beloved mistress
Georgina.
Dennis Wheatley was married twice, and died in 1977.
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