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Timothy J. Jarvis

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in Otley, The United Kingdom

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Timothy J. Jarvis is a writer with an interest in the antic and strange. His novel, The Wanderer, was first released in summer 2014 by Perfect Edge Books and republished by Zagava in 2022. Short fiction has appeared in various venues and in 2023 a collection, Treatises on Dust, was published by Swan River Press. He is also interested in drone and ambient music and has collaborated with sound artists on sleeve notes and performance.

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	The Wanderer 3.97 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing the Uncanny by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard V. Hirst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lucie McKnight Hardy (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales From the Shadow Booth, Vol. 1 by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gary Budden (Goodreads Author), Daniel Carpenter (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Flowering by Mark Beech (Editor), Mark Valentine, Reggie Oliver 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Mud and Flame: A Penda's Fen Sourcebook by Matthew Harle (Editor), James Machin (Editor), David Rudkin (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Invite to Eternity: Tales of Nature Disrupted by Gary Budden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marian Womack (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Leena Likitalo (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treatises on Dust 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncertainties Volume IV by Timothy J. Jarvis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rebecca Lloyd (Goodreads Author), Lucie McKnight Hardy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Purblind Bards (Infra-Noir #8) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I recently interviewed Marian Womack for the Calque Press revised edition of her incredibly powerful collection, Lost Objects. I loved this set of sf tales, which incisively interrogates the slow catastrophe we’re living though in hauntingly beautiful prose, when it first came out (and reviewed it for the LA Review of Books at the time) so it was a real honour to get to ask Marian some questions a

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“Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you’d rather be doing anything else: and you’ve just done it.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

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“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure and design to it – as a man, that there had been less of the kind there was.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

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Aug 15, 2020 01:20AM

Karl wrote: "You certainly are a great credit to this 'weird fiction' field. if I notice you are associated with a publication, I make every effort to obtain it."

Cheers! That really means a great deal. I'm not that active on Goodreads, but I always find your profile a great guide to fascinating new books to seek out.

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