June | 2025 | H Bastawy

Celebrating many things this month…

I have turned twenty-three… again, still look eighteen and have been flatteringly referred to as the most beautiful person on the planet… not bad for an alien hahaha.

This cartoon was made for me out of one of my pictures. I am thinking of using it as a basis for a new character in one of the books called Heidi. Happy to here your thoughts and suggestions.

I have managed to complete Around the World in 8 Days tour challenge. Not much time to get changed inbetween travel. The tour was a great success.

There is a video of it on my social media. I am still new on social media. But you can follow us (me) on all the pages here. Some of it is also to the right of this page.

My new album, also called ‘H Bastawy’ is out. I like all the songs and I have put so much effort in all of them. It has been received well. As always all the instruments, vocals and recordings are played and finalised by myself.

My Spotify is just on the right of what you are reading. You can also find it here or search for my name on the app.

For now, cheers. Don’t forget to check out the ab-flex video on social media. My Tik Tok is just to the right.

It is true. I now own all the rights to all my books.

This is something that I had envisaged many years ago. Being tied to several publishers through various contracts was problematic and imposed hurdles on my creativity. Whilst I am grateful to the publishers who did business with me, the editorial process has been very mechanical and uncreative.

I encountered this problem with various editors, across many of my publications. At some points the editors did not understand the point of the multilingualism in my poetry, at other points they did not see the need for the new words I was introducing. Some of these new words are now in various English dictionaries.

I gained some of the rights to some of my work a few years ago, and with that I started going through them and adding what was subtracted by the mechanical editors who did not understand the spirit of my work. Sometimes these were some words, at other times these were whole sections if not chapters.

Now I have finally gained the full rights to all my work, from all the publishers I previously signed contracts with. Some of these publications were always intended to be published as one book or one work of literature.

I have now had the opporunity with my newly gained rights to combine all the books of the epic that took me years to write into one publication as it was always intended to be, with all the original sections, words and chapters included.

This epic is published as Hexagon, combining all the books of The Hesiad and Apolliad into one wholistic work of literature. I made the illustration and the cover art for this many years ago with this in mind. This is published now with Hera Publishing, a publisher that I also own.