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Did I ever tell you I went to Technical College? Well, it’s true. After a year, I dropped out because I had to copy other people’s code to get through my programming language classes.

I successfully turned the work of one day into the work of three. Half of the blame goes to a fickle laptop and a comically slow internet connection, while the rest of the blame lies with me. I have no head for consistancy, and apparently typing ‘html’ instead of ‘htm’ does make a difference.

But! It was worth the effort. I’ve added new menus, the theme has moved from ‘La Mitad del Mundo’ to Shiva’s holy city of Varanasi. This means, not only has the look improved, but if you die while browsing the website you’ll go directly to Nirvana (Wikipedia: Varanasi). More importantly, I’ve taken my first two books and posted them on-line in their entirety.

Five of my books are listed in the Novels menu. Heres a synopsis of their names, vital info. and availability:

The Coconut and the Swan (First Book, Full-Length Novel, Now Available!)

10 Tales of Origins and Extinctions (Second book, Short Story Collection, Now Available!)

Earthenware (Third Book, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Novel, Coming Soon)

Cavernous (Fourth Book, Full-Length Novel, Preview Available)

Mirror Box (Fifth Book, Full-Length Novel, Preview Available)

As stated, the full version of Earthenware will follow. This book is especially adapted for on-line reading, because it has all the fun of choose-your-own-adventure without all that nasty, back-and-forth, page turning. On the same token, it does require that I add links to 100+ pages, and it’ll take me a few weeks to work up the motivation for it. I’ve already read and editted the book, and I greatly enjoyed the expanded version, laughing over jokes I’d long forgotten.

Also, it’s come to my attention that “The Coconut and the Swan” and “The Party” (one of the ‘10 Tales’) has been flagged as unsuitable by a few content-blocking, fascist-pri*k services. For “The Party”, it can’t be helped. It’s the most vulgar thing I’ve written (possible exception: Mirror Box) and based on true events that cannot be changed. “The Coconut and the Swan” was the fault of one word, I suspect, and the word has since been purposefully misspelled.

I have no qualms about what you do with these books, so long as you don’t distribute them without my consent or try to sell them. I’m considering a print-on-demand service for those who prefer the paper and ink variety of book, but money must come first, sadly.
If you have something to say about the books, website, global concerns, etc., you can email me at readerresponse@hamishdee.com or send a message through Facebook.
Have a good read!

~HD

I’m doing extensive updates to the website, and it’s made some problems. Come back in a day or two to see what I have for you.

 ~HD

It’s an uneventful week in Auroville, India. I’ve been milling around, occupied with job searches and flight complications, but the pleasantries have been few. Rather than squander this little break in events, I conceptualized and completed a small project named, The Silent Spoon.

As the title suggests, maybe, The Silent Spoon is a children’s book. It’s my first book written for a younger audience and it’s an adorable, little piece, at that. The only setback is it’s an illustrated book, and I’m not the world’s most brilliant artist. Actually, I can do heiroglyphs very well (I’ve had high compliments for my Anubis) but beyond that I’m merely average. One of two things will happen. Either, I learn to draw, or I get an illustrator to do it for me. If it sees a completed form, the book will be about 75 pages long, and then an online sample would follow.

Clearly, the subject is a little girl who carries a spoon that makes things quiet.

~HD