Local independent author, Richard Gradner, is launching his latest speculative fiction novel, Unicorn, at La Perla Bar in Sea Point, Cape Town at 6pm on the 1st September 2016. Limited edition, signed copies of the novel will be available to purchase. To stand a chance of winning one of ten, signed, advanced copies of Unicorn, […]
WIN A SIGNED COPY OF UNICORN, BY RICHARD GRADNER Local Indie author, Richard Gradner, is self-publishing his latest speculative fiction novel, Unicorn on 01 September 2016. To stand a chance of winning one of ten, signed, advanced copies of Unicorn, visit Richard’s website before the end of August to enter: www.richardgradner.com Set over 6,000 years […]
It was around ten years ago that I first heard the term practicing immortal, used as a way to describe a conscious and deliberate action taken to follow an illustrious way of life. I liked it and still do. Very much. I added it to the bio on my social media profiles as a way […]
It’s tough bringing up two energetic boys. They demand a lot of attention and need constant guidance and direction. So it’s a pleasure to watch them now as I lie here on Camps Bay Beach, Cape Town (with temperatures soaring in the upper 20’s in the middle of winter!) while they boogie-board in the ocean. […]
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I’ve always had a passion for writing stories but only made the decision to put pen to paper and write my first novel until after I was forty. I remember contemplating the task several times when I was younger and actually made a few feeble attempts at structuring a few storylines and writing a some chapters, […]
People often ask me – “where do you find the time to write?” My response? “I make the time.” This is not really a good enough answer, so I elucidate. When you’re in a busy routine of waking up at 6am to get showered, dressed, breakfast, kids to school, work, yoga, kids’ homework, dinner, kids, […]
My favourite ancient megalithic monument is now a documentary on #nationalgeographic #gobeklitepe View You Tube Video (1min)
A pair of researchers has conducted a phylogenetic analysis on common fairy tales and has found that many of them appear to be much older than has been thought. In their paper published in Royal Society Open Science, Sara Graça da Silva, a social scientist/folklorist with New University of Lisbon and Jamshid Tehrani, an anthropologist […]
The sound of static was broken by the intermittent garble of muted voices that cut into the hazy tendrils of his dream like a belligerent bumblebee, intent on waking him from his place of solace and intense comfort. A pulsating, red light throbbed across the walls of his room, pulling him from his slumber and […]