Latest blog is a guest blog from Belle Kenyon featuring on a very interesting book by a James F Miller.
Ghost in the Reflection: Letters to Erin
Released:
February 15th, 2020
Available
from Amazon, Book Patch and signed from Author direct
Celebrating publication day, James F. Miller
talks about his work:
I am a product of a broken home, an on-and-off again runaway
delinquent child, a recovered addict, a hopeless romantic, a road-exhausted
gypsy, a loved father, a hated free soul and a beloved friend… depending upon
who is asked!
I loved the experience of publishing my first poetry
collection, A Footnote for Tomorrow and I hope that people would
describe my voice as a writer as unique to me – hopefully delightfully wild and
unpredictable! I'm outspoken in opinions and beliefs, yet shy. I like to
provoke discussions
My first
book, A Footnote for Tomorrow, was written about my struggles
with getting clean and off hard drugs and alcohol. It was written over a
twenty-year span about the highlights, the low spots and everything that falls
in between from my twenties into my mid-thirties, from college to the road, to
the music scene, to sober then relapse and repeat.
This second book, Ghost in the Reflection: Letters to Erin
began originally as
two smaller collections that eventually merged into just the one. The first
half, Ghost in the Reflection is a collection of poetry, mostly in the 3rd
person narrative, which describes the decline of society, morality and values.
Meanwhile,
the second half, Letters to Erin, is a mostly first-person narrative that
displays this decline of morality within a traditional relationship. It
examines the hurt, the struggle, the deceit, betrayal and the disappointments.
On unusual writing habits…
I write anywhere and everywhere, whenever the urge hits me.
If I can't get to my notepad, I will text myself the words as I hear them reciting
in my head. I prefer to write in a quiet secluded country setting, after
meditation and mental elevation, but the craft doesn't care what you want, it
wants to be written when it wants to be written however, wherever and whenever
it decides!
Influences:
Jack Kerouac's On the
Road, which in turn turned me onto all the beatnik writers. Howl by Ginsberg is a poetic
masterpiece, so ahead of its time that one not knowing this, could still find
endless relevance in its passages. Bukowski, Ferlinghetti and e. e. cummings
fill in the list of my top influences.
Link to buy for £7.74 in the UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Reflection-Letters-Erin-James-Miller/dp/1733831037
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