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Hi Everyone,
One or two of my short stories are being published in something called the Seoul Writer’s Anthology. It’s either/and/or:

#1 – I Believe in Richard Dawkins
#2 – Death vs. Deep Blue

If you’re interested in getting a copy, please email me ASAP. Since it’s shipping from Korea, or perhaps Thailand, it will cost around $20US, I expect…I know, pricey! But there will be some other fine stories, as well.

If it really is too much, you can give me $1 and I’ll let you touch my contributor copy.
~HD

Ignore that bit about votes in the last post. A link to the polling place will appear at the end of each installment. Simply click on vote and you’ll be taken there. If you wish to be added to a mailing list, send an email to pitofdespair@hamishdee.com (Subject: Mailing List). Through this list, I will send you a weekly message, announcing the next stage’s availability. Or join the Facebook group and get the same message there.

~HD

I created this group on my Facebook page already. That description of the project is also apt here:

Bravely forgoing the antiquated, paper-and-ink format of traditional literature, Hamish Dee will be writing and posting his next book directly on Facebook and www.hamishdee.com. Hamish is doing this, first, for the joy of bringing you his latest work in real-time. Also, he feels like he shouldn’t have to make all of the decisions in the novel just because he’s the author. Every week, Hamish will post a chapter online and at the end of each chapter a decision facing the main character must be made. A list of options will be given and the readers will vote on his next move, thus shaping the story. There is no prewriting or voter fraud in the project. Hamish is just winding the mechanism, where it goes depends on you.

–Let me translate. On Monday, August 18th, I will post the first installment of this novel, Pit of Despair, here and on the Facebook page. Each installment will be about five pages long, so you can read it during a commercial break or while you wait for the Dramamine to take effect. By the following Thursday, you should have read the installment and voted on the next one, giving me Friday and the weekend to actually write it. With luck, this will happen every week. You can email votes to pitofdespair@hamishdee.com (Subject: Vote), or take the Facebook option, which has yet to be sorted.
Accordance?

~HD

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