It was a pleasure to perform a reading from my next title, The Platinum Carnival (which is something like three-quarters written), at a successful Novel London event in the River Room in Riverside Studios the other day. My thanks to organisers Safeena Chaudhry and Rosina Chaudhry for inviting me. In The Platinum Carnival, the labyrinthine splendour of Venice in the winter is the setting for an elemental conflict. Three colourful …
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It’s sweet to discover that in addition to distributing my books, the distributor Atlantic Books has been selling artwork depicting me in a Pop Art style. Printed on canvas, it’s ready to be hung on the wall of any tasteful home, whether in the grand drawing-room or in the smallest room in the house: https://www.amazon.in/Rohan-Quine-Print-Multicolour-Canvas/dp/1018853448 Andy Warhol would approve of this Pop stylising of a photo that was shot by …
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My novels The Beasts of Electra Drive and The Imagination Thief (and one of my main writing locations) are mentioned in a beautifully-produced new app that I’m pleased to be a small part of—“The Secret App”, which reveals “secret” places in big cities. As one of the app’s 57 Londoners, I present six off-the-beaten-track locations in London that I enjoy and/or make use of, which deserve to be better known …
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Spotify in the UK has today started offering audiobooks, including my titles. (Spotify in the U.S. began offering them earlier this year.) Narrated by me, they’re all literary fiction with a touch of magical realism and a dusting of horror, to expand and electrify—celebrating the beauty, darkness and mirth of this predicament called life, where we seem to have been dropped without sufficient consultation ahead of time. The Beasts of …
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Glad to see my six published titles have all received accolades from the NYC Big Book Award 2021. Although it’s not restricted to the U.S., the award’s inclusion of the letters “NYC” in its name feels like an apt bit of geography, because I was a New Yorker for a decade, and NYC was where four of the six titles were partly written and three of them were started. First, …
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It was fun to return to the fuzzy-booth lifestyle, to record the video-book format of The Imagination Thief, whose audio track provided the novel’s recently-published first audiobook edition. The video-camera only looked in one direction, to create the video-book that lives at www.rohanquine.com/t-i-t-video-book and the short-‘n’-snackable teasers from it (some less than a minute long), which live at www.rohanquine.com/t-i-t-video-book/short-teasers-for-the-imagination-thief-video-book But the following photos bring back memories of what was off-video-camera, …
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It was great fun to perform the full text of The Imagination Thief recently, reading to camera through an autocue, with spongy walls of off-camera foam on either side of me. The resultant audiobook format of the novel is just starting to appear at the first few audiobook retailers, like a little dark orchid, as listed here: www.rohanquine.com/buy/the-imagination-thief-novel-audiobook The resultant video-book format of the novel is free to watch at: …
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My 2013 novel The Imagination Thief is gratefully chuffed to be included in a “best of the decade” list of six titles chosen by Dan Holloway: https://twitter.com/agnieszkasshoes/status/1210678118421323776 Part of the chuffingness results from the fact that Dan is alarmingly well-read in a grand array of literary genres and academic fields—his three Gold medals as Creative Thinking World Champion in the Mind Sports Olympiad in each of & & , as …
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Following the recent release of its three sister novellas’ video-book and audiobook formats, these same two formats have just been released for my novella Hallucination in Hong Kong, wrapped in the radioactive-blackcurrant-coloured cover below. The outlets for Hallucination in Hong Kong’s audiobook are listed here: www.rohanquine.com/buy/hallucination-in-hong-kong-novella-audiobook The video-book format of the novella is free to watch at: www.rohanquine.com/h-h-k-video-book And for some short-’n’-snackable teasers from the above (some of the teasers …
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The video-book and audiobook formats of The Platinum Raven have just floated into being, through the haze of the desert between Dubai and the Hajar Mountains. The outlets for The Platinum Raven’s audiobook are listed here: www.rohanquine.com/buy/the-platinum-raven-novella-audiobook The video-book format of the novella is free to watch at: www.rohanquine.com/t-p-r-video-book And for some short-’n’-snackable teasers from the above (some of the teasers being less than a minute long), see here: www.rohanquine.com/t-p-r-video-book/short-teasers-for-the-platinum-raven-video-book …
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