Nico Lee's Blog
May 16, 2017
So, tell me Mr Lee...
I've answered some author questions. Just because it makes me feel big and clever. Perhaps you have some you could pose to me? If you want to know my inside trouser leg measurement or why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near, then fire away...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1589...
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1589...
February 7, 2017
Finnegan's Baked...
"What is Goodreads... what is a good read? What is a book. I used to read. I used to read books. I used to read fiction, but now, now I translate from the Joyce into English. Curse you Stanley Unwin's dad! I will not be defeated... Why did I do this, armed only with a state education where the Classics were not on offer, where a knolwedge of the Bible or Irish politics was something I didn't possess, I wandered in..." and that is why, as the season's wax and wane, like the fall and rise of a poorly mixed cake, I am finding it hard to find time to read stuff on goodreads...
January 27, 2017
Tokyoyo 2035
Thought I'd do something a little novel this morning- if you pardon the pun... Here's an unproofed and very short extract from the book I'm working on at the moment- we'll see if that takes flight. Only two months to go now 'till my first novel is published, so a glimpse into a future beyond that, Tokyo 2035...
https://www.facebook.com/nicolee66/ph...
https://www.facebook.com/nicolee66/ph...
January 13, 2017
About As Much Use...
A little something inspired by a friend's short stories posted over the holiday period...
She took the hammer from the box, placed the business end between her two front teeth and then bore down until the crack thundered inside her skull. As the cheap approximation of chocolate splintered and the plastic taste tickled the tip of her tongue, she was taken back to her childhood, to her fifth Christmas and the habit formed, before even then, of leaving the best to last. She was never quite sure why the adjustable spanner was that choice- maybe the intricacy of the gears, or the amount of confectionery compared to the saw or the screwdriver? It was definitely her favourite though. A pity. It lay there, a disappointment, poorly detailed when compared with her recollection... Had they actually grown so over the years, commercial pressures, the general laziness of the current generation of sugar peddlers, compared with the sweet manufacturers of the past? It certainly seemed less impressive, less meticulous. Perhaps some regulation meant it had to have the same amount of whatever it was that passed for chocolate as the other tools? Each year she grew less enchanted with the way things were going. You can buy licorice in the shape of a gun now. When she was a child there was an old forties movie they showed on television one rainy afternoon with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy where he’d pulled one out, waved it around, only to bite off its end. But that was Hollywood. A little cheap, a little tacky. Nowadays the whole world was too. She picked up the cartoonish revolver, her fingers sticking to the grip, cocked the hammer and the crack thundered inside her skull.
She took the hammer from the box, placed the business end between her two front teeth and then bore down until the crack thundered inside her skull. As the cheap approximation of chocolate splintered and the plastic taste tickled the tip of her tongue, she was taken back to her childhood, to her fifth Christmas and the habit formed, before even then, of leaving the best to last. She was never quite sure why the adjustable spanner was that choice- maybe the intricacy of the gears, or the amount of confectionery compared to the saw or the screwdriver? It was definitely her favourite though. A pity. It lay there, a disappointment, poorly detailed when compared with her recollection... Had they actually grown so over the years, commercial pressures, the general laziness of the current generation of sugar peddlers, compared with the sweet manufacturers of the past? It certainly seemed less impressive, less meticulous. Perhaps some regulation meant it had to have the same amount of whatever it was that passed for chocolate as the other tools? Each year she grew less enchanted with the way things were going. You can buy licorice in the shape of a gun now. When she was a child there was an old forties movie they showed on television one rainy afternoon with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy where he’d pulled one out, waved it around, only to bite off its end. But that was Hollywood. A little cheap, a little tacky. Nowadays the whole world was too. She picked up the cartoonish revolver, her fingers sticking to the grip, cocked the hammer and the crack thundered inside her skull.
November 13, 2016
A Good Lie Ain't Easy
Coming early next year from Mega Dodo Press is my debut novel A Good Lie Ain't Easy. The blurb on the back is as follows:
‘Reckless, sardonic, and frequently hilarious Nico Lee’s ‘A Good Lie Ain’t Easy’, is a heart-warming tale about not staying true to yourself and all the joy that can bring to family and friends. Set on the road, somewhere between the cheap ache of nostalgia and the numb regret of last night, it charts the trajectory of four young drifters, as they attempt to remain as emotionally stunted as the great nation they’re erratically traversing, an English girl and three American brothers, set to wander, in a time so primitive that Grindr was just a really bitchin’ Death Metal band and irony was still something you could enjoy without having to be ironic about it.’
However as my publisher wrote that I guess it'd be better if you got a real feel of the prose I write.
Here is a link to the opening few paragraphs on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/nicolee66/ph...
A short piece I was asked to write from the perspective of the main protagonist that has recently been published on Tony Dougan's website.
http://heartofbalance.blogspot.co.uk/...
A piece not connected with the novel, that went up on the Armley Press website a short while back.
http://www.armleypress.com/skateboard...
And finally the link to my Nico Leewebsite.
http://nicolee1923.wixsite.com/authorA Good Lie Ain't EasyNico Lee
‘Reckless, sardonic, and frequently hilarious Nico Lee’s ‘A Good Lie Ain’t Easy’, is a heart-warming tale about not staying true to yourself and all the joy that can bring to family and friends. Set on the road, somewhere between the cheap ache of nostalgia and the numb regret of last night, it charts the trajectory of four young drifters, as they attempt to remain as emotionally stunted as the great nation they’re erratically traversing, an English girl and three American brothers, set to wander, in a time so primitive that Grindr was just a really bitchin’ Death Metal band and irony was still something you could enjoy without having to be ironic about it.’
However as my publisher wrote that I guess it'd be better if you got a real feel of the prose I write.
Here is a link to the opening few paragraphs on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/nicolee66/ph...
A short piece I was asked to write from the perspective of the main protagonist that has recently been published on Tony Dougan's website.
http://heartofbalance.blogspot.co.uk/...
A piece not connected with the novel, that went up on the Armley Press website a short while back.
http://www.armleypress.com/skateboard...
And finally the link to my Nico Leewebsite.
http://nicolee1923.wixsite.com/authorA Good Lie Ain't EasyNico Lee
