I've got Tim Taylor visiting here. I'm on his BLOG doing a blog swap and...I'm also co-hosting the Facebook Launch Party for Monogamy Twist all day. (Just click the link to take you there)
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Like me, he likes to write in different sub-genres of fiction. I'm delighted today to stick to our intended blog swap because he's come to share some contemporary work on a day when I'm also having contemporary writing of mine launched.
I'm over at his blog sharing information on my next two novels which are in the release queue - Monogamy Twist and the Taexali Game whilst he's here giving us an idea of what his newest work- Revolution Day - is about.
I really loved reading Tim's fabulous Zeus of Ithome and I'm very much looking forward to reading Revolution Day when it is published. So...over to Tim...
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Hi Nancy, many thanks for hosting me
on your blog once again.
Last time I was here I talked about
my historical novel, Zeus of Ithome, which follows the real-life struggle of
the ancient Messenian people to free themselves from three hundred years of
slavery under the Spartans.
Today, I’d
like to give your readers a little preview of my second novel, Revolution Day,
about the ageing dictator of a fictional Latin American country, which will be
published by Crooked Cat later this year (provisionally on 17 July).
The title reveals a point of
similarity with Zeus, in that both books, in very different ways, describe a
revolt against an oppressive regime – in the case of Revolution Day the
overthrow of the previous President by the current one, Carlos Almanzor, which
is recounted by Almanzor's wife as she writes her memoir.
There the similarity ends. Zeus is a historical novel, dramatizing
actual events (albeit through the lives of mostly fictional characters) which
took place well over two thousand years ago.
Revolution Day recounts fictional events in a fictional place, set in
the present, albeit interspersed with recollections of what happened in
previous decades, against the background of the real fluctuations in relations
between the superpowers and their client states.
The novel charts a year in the life
of President Carlos Almanzor, now in his seventies, who is feeling his age and
worried that he is losing his grip.
Interspersed with the main narrative are recollections from his
estranged and imprisoned wife, Juanita.
She recalls how Carlos fortuitously came to power and how, over time, he
gradually changed from an idealistic liberal socialist into an autocrat who now
believes that he alone can be trusted with the stewardship of the nation and is
prepared to do whatever is necessary to protect himself against the threats
that he sees in all directions.
Carlos’ paranoia, though
misdirected, is not without foundation.
For Manuel Jimenez, the vice-President and Minister of Security and
Information, has long been resentful of his subordinate position. When his attempts to expand his role are met
with a humiliating rejection, he resolves to take action, and has no qualms
about exploiting those close to the President to further his ambitions. In time, even Juanita will find herself
embroiled in his plans.
I hope that’s been enough to whet a
few appetites! In the run-up to the
launch I will be posting some excerpts from Revolution Day on my own blog.
Many thanks once again for hosting
me, Nancy, and
good luck with the launches of Monogamy Twist and The Taexali Game!
Zeus of Ithome on
Tim’s website http://www.tetaylor.co.uk/
Twitter @timetaylor1
Thank you for sharing that with us today, Tim. I'll look forward to reading more about it in the coming months...and please come back and share your cover design closer to launch date!
Slainthe!
Interesting sounding book, Tim. Wondering about this Juanita and why she is imprisoned. Strange as I'm a quarter Chilean and my wife called Juanita - and she's a rebel, but from the US. Look forward to learning more.
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