Ask the Author: James Lawless
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James Lawless
It is an experimental, groundbreaking literary novel where language is the key element. If you read my blog below in the author's preface it will tell you what I am about. Ostensibly? Unable to find emotional rapport with his wife, Lil, with whom he shares a childless marriage, middle-aged and ailing librarian Leo Lambkin begins a correspondence with an old flame.
James Lawless
An uncertain parentage as was the case in my first novel, Peeling Oranges
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James Lawless
Congrats, Joe. I certainly will rate and review it. Kind regards, James.
James Lawless
I would travel to Swift’s floating island of Laputa in Gulliver’s Travels which figures briefly in my novel The Avenue https://amzn.to/2Wbyykk where I could view the world from a different perspective.
James Lawless
A dog was seized by lager louts. They burned him on a Halloween pyre.
If you want to find out the full story read The Avenue
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If you want to find out the full story read The Avenue
https://www.amazon.com/Avenue-James-L...
James Lawless
Soul Mountain for pleasure and Greatest Hits and Before I was Yours for professional review. I'm also having another stab at Finnegans Wake.
James Lawless
Zhivago and Lara, and Guido and Anna.
James Lawless
Yes, Rolland I think we are friends on Facebook.
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Best wishes,
James
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Best wishes,
James
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James Lawless
Zhivago and Lara, and in my own work Guido and Anna.
James Lawless
Hi Mark, if you give me an email I can post a copy of the story to you. I intend to bring out a collection or short stories in the near future.
best wishes
James.
best wishes
James.
James Lawless
Watching footage of 9/11 for the adult book and breaking my ankle for the children's book forced me to think back to the character of Jo Jo, a little girl of eight whom I invented for my children when they were small.
James Lawless
I have to be moved by something as in my latest novel I was so terribly moved by the 9/11 tragedy. That prompts me to research and the writing flows (hopefully) from that.
James Lawless
I'm putting the finishing touches to my children's stories The Adventures of Jo Jo which will be published soon. Also I'm trying to find an agent/publisher for my adult novel recently completed, American Doll, about how 9/11 opened a Pandora's box on an Irish/American family.
James Lawless
Read so much that it acts as osmosis for your writing.
James Lawless
The freedom it allows to explore one's existence and the breadth to attempt to fathom one's place in the universe.
James Lawless
I walk and ideas come on the hoof.
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