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Delaney
Delaney is the new novel from best-selling author, Chancery Stone, and is set in the avant-garde world of modern ballet. Not the rarefied echelons of tutus, anorexia and men in tights, but the rather more earthy world of sweaty bodies, nudity and backstabbing.
It tells the story of one Frank Delaney, a street lad training to be a boxer who is seduced into dancing Nijinsky’s most famous L’après-midi d’un Faune.
At first it is a war between Jonathan Delmore, company Svengali, and Delaney an ordinary chap with no ambitions to dance. But then things get muddy…. There is intrigue, passion, professional jealousy and, of course, hints of dark secrets just around the corner.
It tells the story of one Frank Delaney, a street lad training to be a boxer who is seduced into dancing Nijinsky’s most famous L’après-midi d’un Faune.
At first it is a war between Jonathan Delmore, company Svengali, and Delaney an ordinary chap with no ambitions to dance. But then things get muddy…. There is intrigue, passion, professional jealousy and, of course, hints of dark secrets just around the corner.
208 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 3, 2011
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Chancery Stone
21 books50 followersChancery Stone likes wading about in darkness. She always has.
Equally well, she loves the magical powers of redemption, particularly self-redemption. She has a particular fondness for heroes (of either sex) who don’t let anyone fuck with them. This does not involve kick-boxing, vampirism, government agencies or a sociopathic knowledge of firearms. Instead this involves going their own way, in their own time, to their own tune and realising that if God is watching it’s only to see if you’re one of the smart ones.
Chancery Stone was born half a lifetime ago in a quaint Scottish fishing hamlet known as East Kilbride, where she would run wild and untrammelled about the hills, picking heather and singing in the Gaelic. In her spare time, between making moss dyes and raising nursling quails, she ran a child sex club. She was a child herself at this time, of course, and therefore has managed to evade the long arm of the law.
At least thus far.
The Dirty Club had a simple remit: sex, sex and more sex. Limited as it was by her age and ignorance, this chiefly involved urolagnia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, humiliation, bondage, homosexuality, frottage, fingering, nudism, paedophilia, ritualistic power games, domination, bullying, more humiliation and more urolagnia. In fact, altogether too much urolagnia.
She was outed several times – by children to other children, and by adults who really didn’t like that sort of thing. Driven underground at the age of twelve she became a sad academic recluse and took up reading savage and horrific literature and absolutely anything with sex in it.
Then there was wider reading. And yet more reading. And sick three-novels-a-day-habit style reading. And a lot of theatre. And then back to sex again – sex and more sex – extended by now to contain the more missionary and conventional forms thereof.
Eventually she got sick of reading (but, somehow, never of sex) and decided to write instead, and then all of this life-strangely-lived started to spiral out of her, backwards, onto paper.
We expect that once the DANNY Quadrilogy™ is finally done she will turn out some very interesting books in the vein of “Moss Dyeing for Beginners“ and “Quail Baby, Fly Away Home.”
And after that there will be death.
Equally well, she loves the magical powers of redemption, particularly self-redemption. She has a particular fondness for heroes (of either sex) who don’t let anyone fuck with them. This does not involve kick-boxing, vampirism, government agencies or a sociopathic knowledge of firearms. Instead this involves going their own way, in their own time, to their own tune and realising that if God is watching it’s only to see if you’re one of the smart ones.
Chancery Stone was born half a lifetime ago in a quaint Scottish fishing hamlet known as East Kilbride, where she would run wild and untrammelled about the hills, picking heather and singing in the Gaelic. In her spare time, between making moss dyes and raising nursling quails, she ran a child sex club. She was a child herself at this time, of course, and therefore has managed to evade the long arm of the law.
At least thus far.
The Dirty Club had a simple remit: sex, sex and more sex. Limited as it was by her age and ignorance, this chiefly involved urolagnia, exhibitionism, voyeurism, humiliation, bondage, homosexuality, frottage, fingering, nudism, paedophilia, ritualistic power games, domination, bullying, more humiliation and more urolagnia. In fact, altogether too much urolagnia.
She was outed several times – by children to other children, and by adults who really didn’t like that sort of thing. Driven underground at the age of twelve she became a sad academic recluse and took up reading savage and horrific literature and absolutely anything with sex in it.
Then there was wider reading. And yet more reading. And sick three-novels-a-day-habit style reading. And a lot of theatre. And then back to sex again – sex and more sex – extended by now to contain the more missionary and conventional forms thereof.
Eventually she got sick of reading (but, somehow, never of sex) and decided to write instead, and then all of this life-strangely-lived started to spiral out of her, backwards, onto paper.
We expect that once the DANNY Quadrilogy™ is finally done she will turn out some very interesting books in the vein of “Moss Dyeing for Beginners“ and “Quail Baby, Fly Away Home.”
And after that there will be death.
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February 13, 2011Publisher's Review:
Win A Publishing Contract!
Are You Our Next Best-Selling Novelist?
"Delaney" is the new novel from Poison Pixie Publishing’s best-selling author, Chancery Stone.
It is set in the avant-garde world of modern ballet. Not the rarefied echelons of tutus, anorexia and men in tights, but the rather more earthy world of sweaty bodies, nudity and backstabbing.
It tells the story of one Frank Delaney, a street lad training to be a boxer who is seduced into dancing Nijinsky’s most famous role: L’après-midi d’un Faune.
At first it is a war between Jonathan Delmore, company Svengali, and Delaney himself: an ordinary chap with no ambitions to dance. But then things get muddy…. There is intrigue, passion, professional jealousy and, of course, hints of dark secrets just around the corner.
Secrets you get to solve. Because "Delaney" was never finished. Although it is already novel length – just short of 200 pages – it needs a talented, creative author like you to lend it your magic. Finish the story for us, and what "Delaney" proves to be is your choice.
You will be rewarded with a full publishing contract, co-writing credit and, of course, you will become a part of the distinguished Poison Pixie Publishing stable.
Poison Pixie’s creative director said today: “We don’t care what a writer has or hasn’t done in the past. Anyone who wants to take part in writing for the Delaney Series will have their work judged solely on their talent and their ability to tell a compelling story full of all the lust, envy and backstabbing that features in Chancery’s original fragment.”
Unlike conventional writing competitions, there is no limit to the number of winners, and Poison Pixie will publish ALL the novels that it deems worthy to make the most fantastic series of books ever published.
There is no entry fee, but all submissions MUST be accompanied by the official entry form that appears on the back page of the printed edition of the book, and you can purchase a copy, post free and at a discount, from from Poison Pixie Publishing
Full entry details and the official submission form are contained ONLY in the print version of Delaney (ISBN 9780956715456)
Win A Publishing Contract!
Are You Our Next Best-Selling Novelist?
"Delaney" is the new novel from Poison Pixie Publishing’s best-selling author, Chancery Stone.
It is set in the avant-garde world of modern ballet. Not the rarefied echelons of tutus, anorexia and men in tights, but the rather more earthy world of sweaty bodies, nudity and backstabbing.
It tells the story of one Frank Delaney, a street lad training to be a boxer who is seduced into dancing Nijinsky’s most famous role: L’après-midi d’un Faune.
At first it is a war between Jonathan Delmore, company Svengali, and Delaney himself: an ordinary chap with no ambitions to dance. But then things get muddy…. There is intrigue, passion, professional jealousy and, of course, hints of dark secrets just around the corner.
Secrets you get to solve. Because "Delaney" was never finished. Although it is already novel length – just short of 200 pages – it needs a talented, creative author like you to lend it your magic. Finish the story for us, and what "Delaney" proves to be is your choice.
You will be rewarded with a full publishing contract, co-writing credit and, of course, you will become a part of the distinguished Poison Pixie Publishing stable.
Poison Pixie’s creative director said today: “We don’t care what a writer has or hasn’t done in the past. Anyone who wants to take part in writing for the Delaney Series will have their work judged solely on their talent and their ability to tell a compelling story full of all the lust, envy and backstabbing that features in Chancery’s original fragment.”
Unlike conventional writing competitions, there is no limit to the number of winners, and Poison Pixie will publish ALL the novels that it deems worthy to make the most fantastic series of books ever published.
There is no entry fee, but all submissions MUST be accompanied by the official entry form that appears on the back page of the printed edition of the book, and you can purchase a copy, post free and at a discount, from from Poison Pixie Publishing
Full entry details and the official submission form are contained ONLY in the print version of Delaney (ISBN 9780956715456)
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