writing

The summer is officially over, which means… it is time to make the most of good weather.

I have been so busy with many things. My play, Injustice, is complete and published. We (I) have also been upgrading some of our equipment and musical instruments before recording some new songs.

I have had the opportunity to answer many questions from the fans. You can see some of these in the videos on Youtube and our (my) other social media. We are still new on social media, you can follow. like and subscribe here.

There are many videos on our (my) Youtube channel and they are all going viral. You can subscribe and watch on Youtube here.

For now, I will leave you with the story behind the Dr C name in the Nickelback song which I was asked about many times and have also put on social media.

‘I was asked once what is the reason behind calling you C? You’re the alphabet hare is it just any letter?

I said I don’t know. When Nickelback made the Dr C song they didn’t ask me about it in advance.

But there are a few reasons I can think of…

One of the characters in my books is called Charlie.

I invented a treatment for the paralysis caused by Cerebral Palsy which has never been done before.

One of my cars was class C.

One of my ranks was Colonel.

But I think it was mainly for the treatment I invented for Cerebral Palsy.’

The treatment of this type of paralysis is called Reflective Signalling, and has been published academically and in commercial publications. I made sure it is available almost for free with a step-by-step guide, for anybody affected by this problem. This is an innovative treatment which I invented over many years of research and experimentation. The equipment and the methodology are unfortunately not available at the NHS.

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.