new book

World's longest poem in English now belongs to writer and artist Nigel Tomm. Almost all of his new book "The Blah Story, Volume 8" consists of one poem which contains 98,728 words; 449,441 characters (with spaces); 23,161 lines; 728 pages. It is the longest published poem in English literature. The poem is called 'My Blah Story' and it is written by one novel's character.

I just got this, and I must say that I don't take chances on new writers very often but I'm glad I did. It's a collection of short stories in the horror and sci fi genres.
Definitely a page turner. I stayed up all night, barely able to put it down.
If I had to say what the writing style is like, I'd say, Like Stephen King and Dean Koonts with a touch of Edgar Allen Poe.

Just suppose for one moment you are given an extra 5 minutes of your life back at the end of your own funeral to say farewell to your family and friends. What would you tell them? Marie was not sure which life she was in when she finished the eulogy for her best friend Betty. Was she seeing a ghost or was it just her imagination?

Teag and his family take a vacation when they are suddenly shipwrecked on a mystical island. They must make a journey across the island where danger is abundant. But when a dragon takes Teag. He is left to his own resources to fight past the magical creatures. Learning more about himself & his family history, he finds he has magical abilities & faces tragedy and his worst nightmares.

Anna Johnson freely admits she’s no authority on her topic, but feels her enthusiasm alone qualifies her to tell readers how to get their lives together. The single author of Three Black Skirts wonders about such things as the “weird domestic rituals” required of a wife, and only occasionally follows her own advice.

When the shops opened in London yesterday, Marcus Harrison and Richard Hayward achieved something special in the annals of fandom. Not for them the camaraderie of camping out for concert tickets, a Playstation or the latest Harry Potter. They had endured a night vigil for a new book by an author who died 34 years ago: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Mad as badgers, obviously...