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Alexander Rooksmoor
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Author: 55 'what if?' history; historical crime; fantasy & steampunk books available on Amazon & some published by SeaLionPress too. See also: https://rooksmoor.blogspot.com/
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · Sep 11
For my latest novel I have gone back into the Magic Realism genre. 'The Obscured' is set among the community of the Obscured in contemporary UK and Pakistan. It was influenced by Christopher Priest's 'The Glamour', but seeking to explore the challenges for such people facing 2020s technology.
Book cover for 'The Obscured. A Magic Realism Novel', showing a woman looking into a mirror but instead of her own reflection only see the chair and bookcase behind her. The image is surrounded by words in Farsi.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
That is a great scene, so well handled. I cannot think of an equivalent in other movies.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
In addition, he always feels it is necessary, even when condemning someone for some heinous act, to say they are unpopular and of low intelligence. You do wonder how so many of these supposedly unpopular, low intelligence people get to be so successful. Maybe he is looking for clues to help him.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
The thing is, he kept coming back and taking far more than a 'fair share'.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
Or indeed make loads of books, TV series and movies about that period!
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
I still have 'Forest of Doom' in Fighting Fantasy and all four of that final quartet, including 'Kharé - Cityport of Traps' the second one in the series. I also have the Penguin (rather than Puffin) edition of 'The Shamutanti Hills' that came with the separate spell book in a boxed set.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
Then there are woks.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 17h
Wow, that is grim. I meant in a more gentle kind of middle class snobbery way as clearly many Britons went on to Romanise and these were probably the ones who were already quite well off.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 20h
Yes, inadvertently that heist has provided them with a load of free publicity.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 20h
Is this the son of Benoît Blanc?
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 20h
I was thinking this must be a different form of chess to what we play these days. What modern piece equates to two sheep?
I did think of the 'Shaun the Sheep' series when I saw this.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 21h
Yes, we tried it once 21 years ago. I had got 16 pages into her book and had sent her 25 pages of notes already, when we realised that if I persisted, it would be divorce.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 21h
Though it helped if you knew the title they were spoofing.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 21h
We all want to see the movie, already.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 21h
It does rather look like the friendlier version of 'Attack of the Clones'.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
If this guy is not in the dramatisation of this case, then something is wrong.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
While I find it difficult to watch, I know if I genuinely come away from a series really hating a character, I have witnessed good acting. Jack Gleeson is another like that. I know many people find it difficult to envisage him as at all a nice guy after 'Game of Thrones'.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
Rather than it actually reflecting the content. This week I was offered some vampire books which seem to be going into the 'Fifty Shades' category. I guess it is what sells (well?) for some authors, but it did not seem to fit with the general theme of my stall.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
Yes, I did too. I have a couple of copies on my stall. A lot of vampire books these days, well for the past 20 years, have had a heavy romance element or are specifically YA focused. I look at the YA stuff carefully as I know some female authors' work gets put into that category by default.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
No, but I will look it out though, online.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
Not really sure what you mean. I love living in Scotland, there are lots of benefits, but we go from very long days to very short days very quickly.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you. If I can get her one then it will be a start. The potential customer assumed I would have lots fitting her criteria but most are historical or have romantic content. I don't carry anything deemed 'erotic'.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, and it was pitiful. Ironically for the size of his ego this man seems to have no self-respect. Who portrays themselves as an military-scale defecater?
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 1d
Come to North-East Scotland, we would love some daylight at 18.00 this late in the year.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 1d
You have to forgive him sometimes, he is not actually from this planet.
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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 1d
Never come across this one, at present I only have a copy of 'The Dogs' in store.
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