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Outsider
Rooted in the music scene of London, UK, and inspired by a life-long passion for music and a peculiar interest in private dark sides, ‘Outsider’ is a study of human emotions, disturbed by vampires and punctuated with rock music.
Sid is a medicated musician who has lost her rhythm, but strangely is finding her voice as a writer. Her involvement in this story starts when she attends one of Second Look’s gigs for the first time. The rock band inspires her to write short stories sprinkled with monsters.
For Joy, the bored blood-drinker, it might have started when a powerful vampire turned her into a creature of the night at the dawn of the 20th century. Death would probably claim that it started at Sid’s birth, when she thought this soul would make a perfect travelling companion. For Toni and Dee-Dee, it was the night the mighty predator made the unwilling musician into an extremely angry fledgling. The entity known as Life, meddling with mortals’ private lives and nights, clinched her own private deal.
The curious Sid wonders and inquires about vampires. The cynical Joy rediscovers the art of feeling and finds herself willing to protect her mortal lover, even against an over-righteous vampire.
Is everything as it seems? Is everyone as they appear? With offbeat sense of humour and twisted realism, the author guides you down a trail of bodies (alive, dead and undead) until the final showdown.
Book Trailer:
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Sid is a medicated musician who has lost her rhythm, but strangely is finding her voice as a writer. Her involvement in this story starts when she attends one of Second Look’s gigs for the first time. The rock band inspires her to write short stories sprinkled with monsters.
For Joy, the bored blood-drinker, it might have started when a powerful vampire turned her into a creature of the night at the dawn of the 20th century. Death would probably claim that it started at Sid’s birth, when she thought this soul would make a perfect travelling companion. For Toni and Dee-Dee, it was the night the mighty predator made the unwilling musician into an extremely angry fledgling. The entity known as Life, meddling with mortals’ private lives and nights, clinched her own private deal.
The curious Sid wonders and inquires about vampires. The cynical Joy rediscovers the art of feeling and finds herself willing to protect her mortal lover, even against an over-righteous vampire.
Is everything as it seems? Is everyone as they appear? With offbeat sense of humour and twisted realism, the author guides you down a trail of bodies (alive, dead and undead) until the final showdown.
Book Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sq-n4...
- GenresFantasy
223 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 7, 2012
102 people want to read
About the author
W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh
22 books35 followersNEW BIO:
The quiet W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, known to be a versatile artist, a chocolate fiend, an independent musician, and a tree hugger, enjoys photographic walks in cemeteries where tombstones and trees mingle together.
W has contributed to various anthologies including the Ladies & Gentlemen of Horror 2014 and 2017 anthologies (as a writer) and the Ladies & Gentlemen of Horror 2016 (as an artist). This secretive writer is the author of a novel entitled ‘Outsider’ (punch line: ‘Vampires and lesbians enjoying rock music in London’) published in 2012, and ‘Tales for the 21st Century’, a collection of short stories published in 2014. Their most recent book is another collection of short stories, 'Tales for the 21st Century, volume 2', self-published in 2019. W has been rumoured to use other pen names.
This non-binary person currently lives with one cat in London and has a tendency to devour books (paper is a very edible substance) while drinking coffee or water (coffee being coloured water) and eating too much chocolate, on a background of music by Joan Armatrading or Patti Smith or deux furieuses or Buffy Sainte Marie or Mimi Fox or Stever, etc.
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OLD BIO:
Little is known about the apparently quiet W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh. The few unearthed bones are still disconnected: dreams, books, no gender, tattoos, wolves, invisible energies, permanent puzzlement. W would be (in alphabetical order) a versatile artist, a chocolate fiend, an independent musician, and a tree hugger.
The cats know more, but refuse to talk: one will stare you down; the other one will fight you.
W’s writings have appeared in unknown, obscure zines and in the last ten years in various anthologies, including the recent 'Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2014'.
W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh is a speculative writer and occasionally writes under other names.
The quiet W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, known to be a versatile artist, a chocolate fiend, an independent musician, and a tree hugger, enjoys photographic walks in cemeteries where tombstones and trees mingle together.
W has contributed to various anthologies including the Ladies & Gentlemen of Horror 2014 and 2017 anthologies (as a writer) and the Ladies & Gentlemen of Horror 2016 (as an artist). This secretive writer is the author of a novel entitled ‘Outsider’ (punch line: ‘Vampires and lesbians enjoying rock music in London’) published in 2012, and ‘Tales for the 21st Century’, a collection of short stories published in 2014. Their most recent book is another collection of short stories, 'Tales for the 21st Century, volume 2', self-published in 2019. W has been rumoured to use other pen names.
This non-binary person currently lives with one cat in London and has a tendency to devour books (paper is a very edible substance) while drinking coffee or water (coffee being coloured water) and eating too much chocolate, on a background of music by Joan Armatrading or Patti Smith or deux furieuses or Buffy Sainte Marie or Mimi Fox or Stever, etc.
https://www.facebook.com/Walkis-Monst...
OLD BIO:
Little is known about the apparently quiet W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh. The few unearthed bones are still disconnected: dreams, books, no gender, tattoos, wolves, invisible energies, permanent puzzlement. W would be (in alphabetical order) a versatile artist, a chocolate fiend, an independent musician, and a tree hugger.
The cats know more, but refuse to talk: one will stare you down; the other one will fight you.
W’s writings have appeared in unknown, obscure zines and in the last ten years in various anthologies, including the recent 'Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2014'.
W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh is a speculative writer and occasionally writes under other names.
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December 17, 2012
Sid Wasgo, as the title of the book indicates, is a bit of an outsider. Totally obsessed with the lesbian music scene of London, Sid is herself a former musician, artist, lover of tattoos, and completely and totally uncomfortable in her own skin. Sid is a ‘cutter’, a drinker, and longs to live a life free from being tied to a gender. She has physical problems, mental issues, and is literally in love with Death. She fills her time and nights with concerts, writing, and time spent with friends, which she seems to have plenty of...even if she doesn’t allow them to get close.
At the start of the book, Sid’s life if very ‘normal’. A reader who has spent any considerable time in the music scene or lesbian bars will find the situations and characters of the first half of this novel easy to related to and identify as classic music/lesbian types. However, while Sid is busy attending shows and making friends with the members of her favorite band, Second Look, there’s a vampire stalking and killing concert goers. It’s when, Joy, the concert going vampire, sets her sights on the nearsighted Sid that things for the young woman start to get a bit weird...okay a lot weird.
From this point the storyline and plot of the book gets quite complex. It is in fact complex from the beginning with transitions from real life to almost dream like excepts from stories penned by the main character and flash backs to long ago deeds done by the various vampires Joy has known. There are also the characters of Life and Death which add to the already teeming cast of oddities and outsiders. By the end of things time itself will be bent.
If a reader is looking for a well-written, but unusually told story, this book is a must read.
At the start of the book, Sid’s life if very ‘normal’. A reader who has spent any considerable time in the music scene or lesbian bars will find the situations and characters of the first half of this novel easy to related to and identify as classic music/lesbian types. However, while Sid is busy attending shows and making friends with the members of her favorite band, Second Look, there’s a vampire stalking and killing concert goers. It’s when, Joy, the concert going vampire, sets her sights on the nearsighted Sid that things for the young woman start to get a bit weird...okay a lot weird.
From this point the storyline and plot of the book gets quite complex. It is in fact complex from the beginning with transitions from real life to almost dream like excepts from stories penned by the main character and flash backs to long ago deeds done by the various vampires Joy has known. There are also the characters of Life and Death which add to the already teeming cast of oddities and outsiders. By the end of things time itself will be bent.
If a reader is looking for a well-written, but unusually told story, this book is a must read.
December 19, 2014
If you are like me, you have grown a bit weary of the vampire genre this past few years. When I heard that W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh had a novel to add to the genre, I had mixed feelings about it. These days, the public in inundated with vampires, zombies, and the like so what could I expect from this writer? I was pleasantly surprised that W's creative mind could hold such intricate characters and settings that each chapter held something new. W's writing is complex, to say the least and may not appeal to all tastes but you could see the love that was put into this book and you will not regret taking this literary journey. Walki knows punk music, that is evident all throughout and it makes a interesting background for how the story flows. Joy is a tired and bored blood drinker who's path has crossed with Sid Wasgo. Sid is a writer, lover of music, and given to bouts of depression that just enhances her creative mind. It is fate that their destinies meet in a myriad of ways that soon get the interest of personifications of Life and Death and a host of interesting, and lethal, characters that culminate to an interesting twist of a climax. Walki is a writer that is multi-layered. Genderless and free-spirited, Walki blends a part of W's mind into each character. It is plain to see that Sid, Joy, Dee Dee and Toni are all separate incarnations of this multi-talented person. The attention to detail and dialogue in this book makes for vivid reading. It is as if Nancy A. Collins, Anne Rice, Poppy Z. Brite and Bram Stoker all got together to create a vampire novel for the punk era. What I liked is how there are stories written by Sid interspersed throughout the book. Highly recommended.
May 12, 2012
"Outsider" by W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh, provides a fascinating ride through the minds of multiple abstract characters, and their interactions with one another. Although, at times the characters' stray thoughts and actions are fierce, even terrifying, the penetrating glimpses into the world of alternative lifestyles and beautifully constructed obsessions make the story impossible to put down ... no matter how horrified the reader may be. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the world of 'so called' aberrant behaviours and desires; but beware, Tinkanesh, will take you to a place, where you will ultimately identify with her characters ... in ways that you never expected.
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January 30, 2018DNF - This review reflects my sentiments.
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January 27, 2016
I hate doing this, I really do. I wanted to like this book, I tried to like this book, but there were just too many faults for me to over look. Which is a shame because there was a lot of potential for a good book.
It's not terrible, but the editing needs to be much more thorough. There are so many typos and misplaced words that it's jarring and I'm not usually one to mind a few mistakes here and there, but this just had too many. It could have done with being a bit more directed as well, a lot of it just meanders about with no real purpose and there are random short stories that were meant to have been written by the protagonist that didn't really add anything and never failed to feel like padding. It's a shame because the writing itself is okay and even really good in points and I desperately wanted to like this book. Unfortunately it just wasn't anywhere near polished enough
It's not terrible, but the editing needs to be much more thorough. There are so many typos and misplaced words that it's jarring and I'm not usually one to mind a few mistakes here and there, but this just had too many. It could have done with being a bit more directed as well, a lot of it just meanders about with no real purpose and there are random short stories that were meant to have been written by the protagonist that didn't really add anything and never failed to feel like padding. It's a shame because the writing itself is okay and even really good in points and I desperately wanted to like this book. Unfortunately it just wasn't anywhere near polished enough
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