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I’ll quickly skirt over what I’ve been up to and then I’m going to get all opinionated about UK drug laws. I ran a competition on my Twitter page to give me a break from writing my second novel. The competition was to guess which KRS-One tune I’m going to base a short story on. The answer is I Can’t Wake Up and there has been a winner (big ups Alix Anarchic!). The prize is that the story will be dedicated to Alix and when I release my short story collection sometime in the next year or so, she will also get a free copy.
If you don’t know, the KRS-One tune is about a blunt. I don’t smoke weed that much these days (although once every blue moon I can be found huffing on a vaporizer), but I’m still a big advocate for changing drug laws to something scientific and which differentiates between recreational drug use and drug addiction; the latter being a serious illness which needs an entirely new approach where compassion replaces ignorance. Like pretty much everything else they have an opinion on, the Tories and the Labour Party are a bunch of useless melons on this subject.
Let’s be honest: the present laws have been implemented by boring farts who wouldn’t know what fun is if it flashed its willy at them. These unenlightened fools think that criminalising recreational drugs (except for the taxable major killers alcohol and nicotine) makes them morally superior when really they’re just authoritarian arse hats who enjoy dictating to the rest of us what the parameters of the human experience should be. Bottom line: adults should be allowed to do whatever they want in their spare time (with the usual caveat of not infringing on other people’s space and consent is always paramount).
But the case for legalising weed is a matter of priority and such a shift in attitude would pave the way to other drugs being treated with respect. It’s happening in other corners of the world and it’s a matter of time before it’ll happen here; it’s just a question of how long we have to wait. It’s a topic that even non-drug users should get involved in because the benefits of having good education on drugs for younger people, a decent marketplace and a legal system which values the scientific method will be a massive leap in the right direction, reducing crime and dependency while maximising personal freedom. I’m strictly non-partisan but the Green Party (appropriately named, right?) have the most sensible approach to drugs in my opinion. The rest are way off course. Dull, outdated farts. Imagine going to one of their house parties. It’d be fucking unbearable.
What else can I moan about? Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ is great and I love it, but one thing which has both surprised me and gripped my shit is that you can’t recommend your stories to friends except through private messages. You can start posts about your book on some group forums and there are a couple of threads solely for self-published authors, but they’re usually met with indifference â€� as if there’s a law book when it comes to promoting your own stories. This is absurd in these changing times. Most people are logging on to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to discover books. So if they read a recommendation from an author who has zero advertising budget they can quickly decide whether or not they want to pursue it. Nobody gets hurt so I fail to understand why people start complaining as if the only way people are allowed to get the word out is through expensive adverts.
So anyways; I’m currently about a third of the way through this short story and I’m going to finish it before returning to my second novel. I’m still reluctant to disclose any details about my second novel just yet. But all will be revealed in due course. I’m going to go all out and get as many people reading it as possible. I quickly got bored of promoting Spark which is a shame because those who have read it and have been in touch seemed to have enjoyed it. It’s still free on Lulu.com and as cheap as I can set it on the Kindle so get on it. It’s also available on the Nook but who gives a shit about the Nook.
I’ve also got back into reading and have read some great books so far this year. I particularly recommend Wasting Talent by Ryan Leone, Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto and a collection of poems called Stone Hotel by Raegen Butcher. I’m not big in to poetry, but this is more like reading short bursts of wisdom from the viewpoint of a prison inmate. What all these works have in common is they are authentic. I’m looking forward to reading The Last Magdalene: A Novella by Riya Polcasrtro and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. over the coming month. I’ll also try to read Necropolis by Guy Portman as well as some other stuff on my ‘to read� list.
So that’s your update for this month. Feel free to get in touch, tell me what’s going on and please make me rich by buying my huge range of reasonably priced merchandise. The highly requested Sentenced sick bags are definitely coming soon and plans for releasing Eat Nasty action figures with detachable mullets could become a reality this time next year.
Inabit, soldiers!
I’ll quickly skirt over what I’ve been up to and then I’m going to get all opinionated about UK drug laws. I ran a competition on my Twitter page to give me a break from writing my second novel. The competition was to guess which KRS-One tune I’m going to base a short story on. The answer is I Can’t Wake Up and there has been a winner (big ups Alix Anarchic!). The prize is that the story will be dedicated to Alix and when I release my short story collection sometime in the next year or so, she will also get a free copy.
If you don’t know, the KRS-One tune is about a blunt. I don’t smoke weed that much these days (although once every blue moon I can be found huffing on a vaporizer), but I’m still a big advocate for changing drug laws to something scientific and which differentiates between recreational drug use and drug addiction; the latter being a serious illness which needs an entirely new approach where compassion replaces ignorance. Like pretty much everything else they have an opinion on, the Tories and the Labour Party are a bunch of useless melons on this subject.
Let’s be honest: the present laws have been implemented by boring farts who wouldn’t know what fun is if it flashed its willy at them. These unenlightened fools think that criminalising recreational drugs (except for the taxable major killers alcohol and nicotine) makes them morally superior when really they’re just authoritarian arse hats who enjoy dictating to the rest of us what the parameters of the human experience should be. Bottom line: adults should be allowed to do whatever they want in their spare time (with the usual caveat of not infringing on other people’s space and consent is always paramount).
But the case for legalising weed is a matter of priority and such a shift in attitude would pave the way to other drugs being treated with respect. It’s happening in other corners of the world and it’s a matter of time before it’ll happen here; it’s just a question of how long we have to wait. It’s a topic that even non-drug users should get involved in because the benefits of having good education on drugs for younger people, a decent marketplace and a legal system which values the scientific method will be a massive leap in the right direction, reducing crime and dependency while maximising personal freedom. I’m strictly non-partisan but the Green Party (appropriately named, right?) have the most sensible approach to drugs in my opinion. The rest are way off course. Dull, outdated farts. Imagine going to one of their house parties. It’d be fucking unbearable.
What else can I moan about? Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ is great and I love it, but one thing which has both surprised me and gripped my shit is that you can’t recommend your stories to friends except through private messages. You can start posts about your book on some group forums and there are a couple of threads solely for self-published authors, but they’re usually met with indifference â€� as if there’s a law book when it comes to promoting your own stories. This is absurd in these changing times. Most people are logging on to Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ to discover books. So if they read a recommendation from an author who has zero advertising budget they can quickly decide whether or not they want to pursue it. Nobody gets hurt so I fail to understand why people start complaining as if the only way people are allowed to get the word out is through expensive adverts.
So anyways; I’m currently about a third of the way through this short story and I’m going to finish it before returning to my second novel. I’m still reluctant to disclose any details about my second novel just yet. But all will be revealed in due course. I’m going to go all out and get as many people reading it as possible. I quickly got bored of promoting Spark which is a shame because those who have read it and have been in touch seemed to have enjoyed it. It’s still free on Lulu.com and as cheap as I can set it on the Kindle so get on it. It’s also available on the Nook but who gives a shit about the Nook.
I’ve also got back into reading and have read some great books so far this year. I particularly recommend Wasting Talent by Ryan Leone, Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto and a collection of poems called Stone Hotel by Raegen Butcher. I’m not big in to poetry, but this is more like reading short bursts of wisdom from the viewpoint of a prison inmate. What all these works have in common is they are authentic. I’m looking forward to reading The Last Magdalene: A Novella by Riya Polcasrtro and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. over the coming month. I’ll also try to read Necropolis by Guy Portman as well as some other stuff on my ‘to read� list.
So that’s your update for this month. Feel free to get in touch, tell me what’s going on and please make me rich by buying my huge range of reasonably priced merchandise. The highly requested Sentenced sick bags are definitely coming soon and plans for releasing Eat Nasty action figures with detachable mullets could become a reality this time next year.
Inabit, soldiers!
