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I'll do my best. I cannot promise when I'll get around to reading it though. Big smile

I don't have any space left in my inbox. Oops.

I'll PM you with my e-mail address.

I'll send you one of my mine back in return. Although my only really complete one isn't that great and isn't sci-fi or anything like that.

No rush mate. I have to put some dinner on anyway.

My poetry is mostly on P.A. somewhere but I do have in a file. Most of my prose is unfinished.

I'll be happy to forward on one of the finished pieces but it's a juvenile piece really.

I would't mind reading some of your stuff, either, although I probably wouldn't be too good at feedback.

I haven't written in years, but I probably still have my notebooks stuffed with lines of depression and phantasmagoria hidden in some trunk. Dunno which one, though.

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Oh, I don't write anything perverse or disgusting (usually). I mostly fiddle with soft science/speculative fiction. I think my weakest writing points are dialogue, and 'padding'. I'm good at making beginnings and endings for ideas, but my routes from point A to B are often rough around the edges.

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I don't actually self-promote too often. I figured it was relevant in this conversation, though.

I could message you, Truth, with something if you've got the time.

I'd love to read it given your tastes in literature. Big smile

I think one of Ford's novels may appeal to you but as it's still on my to read list, I cannot say exactly whether you will or not.

The novel in question is: The Girl in the Glass

Here's the blurb from Jeff's website:

The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until an impossible occurrence changes everything.

While "communing with spirits," Schell sees an image of a young girl in a pane of glass, silently entreating the con man for help. Though well aware that his otherworldly "powers" are a sham, Schell inexplicably offers his services to help find the lost child -- drawing Diego along with him into a tangled maze of deadly secrets and terrible experimentation.

At once a hypnotically compelling mystery and a stunningly evocative portrait of Depression-era New York, The Girl in the Glass is a masterly literary adventure from a writer of exemplary vision and skill.

The Girl in the Glass was the winner of The Edgar Allan Poe Award from The Mystery Writers of America in 2005 for Best Paperback Novel