Calum Kerr

Novels

To date I have written two complete novels - both unpublished - and am currently working on another two.

The two unpublished novels were written almost as experiments in finding out how to write a novel.

The first The Girl Next Door is a thriller that took me about 6 years to complete. I have the excuse that I also took my first degree in the middle of that time, but essentially it was procrastination and realising that writing a novel is not an easy thing. It reads like someone learning to write a novel and the voice of the narrator at the beginning is very different to how it is by the end. I still think it is a good story, but the amount of rewriting it would need to make it publishable has always put me off.

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Writing

Creative Writing Bibliography and CV

The second novel, A Handful of Dice, was written and submitted for my MA in Creative Writing. It is a comedy, science-fiction, detective noir novel. This one was written in 6 months, so that at least was an improvement. However, it also shows signs of a writer learning his craft and needs rewriting. One of these days, when I have the time...

Below is a link to an extract from A Handful of Dice. As with any of the writing on this site, I would like to receive your thoughts and feedback to the email address on the Home Page.

The first chapter of A Handful of Dice

Before starting work on the novels I am currently working on, I did my PhD for which I rewrote R.L. Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a hypertext. This created a novel length piece of work that is complete and of which I am very proud. More about it can be found in the Research section of this site, or you can read the hypertext itself at www.jekyllandhyde-multipleperspectives.co.uk.

I don't propose to go into details of the two novels I am currently working on, but suffice to say that they are both very different to each other and satisfy the differing sides of my personality. I will post more about them on this site as there is more to say.

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