It was a blast to perform the full text of The Beasts of Electra Drive earlier this year, 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 has just appeared at the audiobook retailers (including Audible and iTunes / Apple Books), like a little winter fruit, as listed here: www.rohanquine.com/buy/the-beasts-of-electra-drive-novel-audiobook The resultant video-book format of …
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I’m chuffed to see The Beasts of Electra Drive has been listed as a Finalist in the IAN Book of the Year Awards 2018, in the LGBT category: www.independentauthornetwork.com/2018-book-of-the-year-winners.html Of the novel’s seven Beasts (who are all 100% human in appearance), three sit clearly in the LGBT constellation, namely Kim and Shigem and Scorpio. Two of those three are at least as much “T” as they are “G” – each …
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My thanks to Studio UK magazine, whose editor Eddie Saint-Jean has published a piece about The Beasts of Electra Drive’s recent Saint Pancras Clock Tower activities: https://studioukmagazine.co.uk/2018/09/20/author-rohan-quine-the-beasts-of-electra-drive/ Those activities comprised a live reading I did from The Beasts of Electra Drive and a screening from the novel’s Video-Book format, which together constituted my contribution to a line-up that also featured Safeena Chaudhry and Dan Holloway under the aegis of Novel …
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One recent evening in the Clock Tower above Saint Pancras station in London, I climbed a narrow spiral staircase, stood on a high balcony and performed a couple of extracts from The Beasts of Electra Drive, as shown in the following video—mini-chapter 94 “Jaymi creates Scorpio’s appearance” and mini-chapter 111 “Scorpio as succubus in the house on Jupiter Drive”. Those two mini-chapters’ texts are reproduced lower down this page. The …
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On 18 August in the 10-metre-high bell-chamber of the Clock Tower Room, up in the Victorian Gothic tower above Saint Pancras station, there will be the premiere public screening from the upcoming video-book format of my novel The Beasts of Electra Drive. There, Safeena Chaudhry and I shall be both doing live readings, too—mine from that novel, and hers from her novel Companions of Clay. I’ll also be screening some …
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Many thanks to literary magazine “The Woolf”, for including me in their article entitled “What if your book is the child of two genres?” by Jim Rushing, alongside other authors who are blurring genres or categories in interesting ways: http://thewoolf.org/2018/06/01/what-if-your-book-is-the-child-of-two-genres/ As well as being literary fiction with a touch of magical realism and a dusting of horror (a generous dusting, but a only dusting), my novel The Beasts of Electra …
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The Beasts of Electra Drive is delighted to be probed in an in-depth interview by novelist Jane Davis in her Virtual Book Club: https://jane-davis.co.uk/2018/04/17/virtual-book-club-rohan-quine-introduces-beasts-electra-drive/ I’m very grateful to Jane for giving my tale the royal treatment there, where she fires twinkly intelligent questions at me that encompass Timothy Leary, Frankenstein’s monster, DNA, vengeance, splendour and pain—a little something for all the family, in fact. Her piece even includes one image …
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Lovely to see this warm and thoughtful review of The Beasts of Electra Drive, by novelist Catriona Troth at “Bookmuse”: https://bookmuseuk.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-beasts-of-electra-drive-by-rohan.html Big thanks to Catriona for delving with generosity and receptiveness into the world of those Hollywood canyons. For more information about The Beasts of Electra Drive, see here. For reviews of the novel, see here. For links to all retailers of the novel in paperback format, see here. For …
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Here The Beasts of Electra Drive is reviewed by novelist Sally Bend at “Bending the Bookshelf”: http://bibrary.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-beasts-of-electra-drive-by-rohan.html Many thanks to Sally for her flair and perceptiveness in this review. Gender-fluid power and respect to her across the Atlantic. For more information about The Beasts of Electra Drive, see here. For reviews of the novel, see here. For links to all retailers of the novel in paperback format, see here. For …
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At the London Book Fair 2018 in Olympia, London, my novel The Beasts of Electra Drive launched alongside Jane Davis’s Smash all the Windows and Dan Holloway’s Kill Land. The following video captured the fun. Big thanks to Orna Ross and Philip Lynch of ALLi for generously giving us free use of their stand, and to Sara Challice for taking charge of the Facebook Live filming and asking us questions …
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