2020 ~ Helen Hagemann

Saturday, November 7, 2020

The Last Asbestos Town & Book Clubs

One of the events that I am connecting with since having a novel published is Book Clubs. I have recently supplied 8 books to a Cottesloe Book Club and I will be their guest on 24th August. Hopefully, the group will like the novel. I know that a lot of readers do not like the Speculative genre and many book buyers have said to me ‘it’s not something they usually read’, but...

Review of The Last Asbestos Town in Have-a-go News, Sept.

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OOTA Writers to Launch "The Last Asbestos Town"

Setting of the Novel. This largely takes place inside a Girl Guide Hall. I drew on several visits to the South West, in particular Collie. The Girl Guide Hall is real, having stayed there, is owned by a friend, and that has since been renovated. Also In 2009, I read a novel by Honey Brown titled Red Queen about a futuristic killer virus, so this author inspired me to...

OOTA Writers to launch The Last Asbestos Town in October

Setting: The photograph to the left is named Coal River in my novel. I used an actual setting of a South West country town and this is a way of writing about what you know. I also had a dream that was so crisp and clear that I thought it would make a good novel. (I wrote the dream into the novel). It was around the time when Prime Minister Tony Abbott had brought in Australia’s...

FREE EBOOK - The Last Asbestos Town

I'm offering a "FREE" Smashwords ebook to any reader or reviewer! Please note: This novel is not about the medical dangers of asbestos. It does however (on the subliminal level state that this menace should be totally eradicated from our lives. The Last Asbestos Town is a speculative novel on what might happen in a totalitarian society where there is no choice and power...

The Last Asbestos Town - a debut novel

THE LAST ASBESTOS TOWN My debut novel is soon to hit the bookstores (online) end of April/early May as the publication is by Adelaide Books LLC an American publisher situated in 5th Avenue, New York USA. A long way to go to promote the book, or even to meet the Editor-in-Chief, Stevan Nikolic. Nevertheless, I have been amazed how professional Adelaide Books are and...

Prose Poem: Bus Shelter

Bus Shelter A wide structure that lets you in and is never trimmed, a space for prams parents and packages. In between it is so clean a place of space and a large awning that is a roof and this shows judgement and outlines are only changes in outer shade where a whole shade within remains cool yet darkness is the least thing for lightness lets the light in and this...

Prose poem: Ticket Box

Ticket Box A box that is an open window but only open if not closed. Certainly there is service a greeting friendliness chit-chat from within and much the same on the other side when a ticket is purchased. A small wooden house not quite a home as its purpose is not to house but to act and every act should be personable as out of the box comes a piece of paper....