Dear Friends,

I thought I’d send a little message to give you some info about what’s coming up in the very near future. It’s been all go here at Lucas Towers.

September 15th sees the release of the follow-up to ‘Poems From the Seashore’. The new book is called ‘The Silence of the Suburbs, The Call of the Sea’ (yes, another seashore theme). It’s a small offering of 32 poems from the same publisher as before, Palores Publications, and is very similar in layout and style to the first book. When it’s out it will be available online at Amazon or through bookshops. However, if you want a copy a before it becomes widely available, you can send a cheque for £3.95 directly to the publisher, and a nice chap called Les will pop one in a brown envelope and send it out to you, postage free. The first 50 will be signed (which may increase its value on ebay by about 7p). The address to send your old-skool cheques to is:

Palores Publications
12 Melrose Avenue
Twickenham
TW2 7JE

The other bit of exciting news (at least for me) is that my first novel, ‘Seaside Tales From Asper St. Jasper’ (yes, the seaside theme yet again) will be coming out at the end of September. For those that may be interested, here is the blurb that will be on the back cover of the book.

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About 94 miles away from where you live sits the weird and wonderful little seaside town of Asper St. Jasper. Here, in this modest book, are a wealth of magnificently strange tales about the town’s oddball residents and their curious antics. Why does Shanklin Roquefort keep throwing fruit at pensioners and putting signs up everywhere? Will Chunky Fido, with his expertly-honed guerrilla tactics, ever succeed in eliminating soft-scoop ice creams from the town? And what possible reason could there be for a nose to jump off a fisherman’s face and go looking for cake? As you can see, there’s a lot happening in town!

Don’t be fooled into thinking these tales are for children, though. The abundant cultural and nostalgic TV references that burst out from nearly every page, put pay to that. As does the single use of the phrase, ‘brutal serial killer’, in one of the footnotes. You have been warned.
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I’ll give more info out to those who are interested the nearer the book gets to release. What I can tell you is that it will cost £8.99 and is just over 400 pages long (don’t worry, it’s quite a big font). Oh, and it’s got a lovely looking ice cream on the cover. I am quite disappointed that we were unable to accommodate the picture of me with a garden gnome on the back cover, but sometimes life can be cruel. It’s a real shame, because it was a far better photo than the one that is going on my new poetry book. In that one, I look like I’ve got a very long face and a tiny head. I look a bit like an alien.

The final bit of news is that I now have a mailing list operating. Mailing lists are a really nice way to keep people who want to know about stuff up-to-date. I like it because I don’t have to bother or annoy people who couldn’t care less about me and my silly adventures.

Anyway, this mailing list. It’s just a way that you can keep up to date with all the bits and bobs that are happening with my books, poetry readings, events etc. If that sounds like your bag, then you’re very welcome to join by going to this bit of my website.

http://www.phillucas.com/contact.php

I do give you this cast-iron super water-tight promise. I will not send your email address on to any person or any dodgy company, and I’ll only ever contact you with things that I think may be nice to share.

So, that’s about the short of it. Thanks for taking the time to read this little message. I hope everybody is keeping well, and I wish only the very best for you all. Do always feel free to drop me message about anything at all. It’s always lovely to hear from you.

With many happy wishes,

Phil x

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