tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47181449811563450382024-03-13T15:35:19.362+00:00The Word On The WallWriting By Mark Cantrell, Author & JournalistAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-58280607620946089542012-08-04T17:59:00.001+01:002012-08-04T18:14:45.425+01:00Head On Over To A New Chapter
Mark doesn't scribe here any more
www.markcantrell.co.uk
ASTUTE observers will note this blog hasn't been updated in a while. There's a very good reason for that. There's a new blog in cyberspace, and you can find it over there on the new website, Mark Cantrell, Author.
Word is it's pretty good. Well, that's where the smart words - and the hungry readers - are gathering now Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-13063584227648015862012-07-04T19:48:00.000+01:002012-07-04T19:54:34.462+01:00EXCLUSIVE OFFER
STOP PRESS... Quids In With The Smashwords Summer Sale...
EXCLUSIVE to Smashwords:
Throughout July you can get the novel CITIZEN ZERO and the fiction anthology ISOLATION SPACE
half price in the Summer Sale using code SSW50.
At a quid a shot
($1.58) that's less than a cup of coffee for some great literature.
Meanwhile, the poetry anthology DEUS EX INSOMNIA is going FREE, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-71551525294008067312012-04-13T23:17:00.000+01:002012-04-13T23:19:35.532+01:00POEM: Solitude In Starlight
Under Star Fall
By Mark Cantrell
I surrender,
Every limitation
And take upon myself
Each sin and singular persuasion
Of life’s folly and illusion,
To dazzle truth
In the glare of outward aspiration.
Thus,
Shall I stand, wide-eyed with arms high,
To stare skyward
In primate awe, dreaming of
Dark stars
Beyond reach of Earthbound
Folly, where those grounded aspirations born
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-13831562522139472872012-03-21T20:21:00.001+00:002012-03-21T20:21:27.728+00:00POETRY: Rhyme Of The Shipwrecked Mariner<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Poet’s winning verse celebrates those who gather fish for chips
A Sheffield woman with a terrible fear of drowning has won a
poetry competition dedicated to the nation’s mariners, with the prize of having her poem read out by the 'Bard of Barnsley' Ian McMillan.
Maggie Ballinger won the inaugural Seafaring Limerick
Competition, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-50175048713747605952012-03-20T20:13:00.000+00:002012-03-20T20:13:19.463+00:00POLITICS: Budget Day Protest Planned<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Austerity protest will take the dole to Downing Street
PROTESTORS are to stage a live-action recreation of an
infamous 1979 Conservative election poster when they gather outside Downing
Street tomorrow to form a ‘dole queue’ – to declare that ‘austerity isn’t
working’.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivers his
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-40874185751197064292012-03-04T18:56:00.000+00:002012-03-04T18:56:11.436+00:00OFFER: Read An eBook Week (4-10 March)<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Done deal for a
festival of digital literature
THE deal is done and the books are on the table. All you
have to do is head on over to Smashwords to partake of the half-price book deal
now running to celebrate Read An eBook Week (4-10 March 2012).
For the rest of this week, my novel CITIZEN ZERO, fiction
anthology ISOLATION SPACE, andAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-74547895021584267442012-03-04T18:41:00.001+00:002012-03-04T18:41:23.103+00:00Leveson Inquiry: The Bullying That Underlies Sleaze<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Culture of fear
created cruel creed of corruption
The Leveson Inquiry has laid bare the rotten heart of
British journalism, but it is very much the corrupt bosses that have set the
beat. As testimony presented by the NUJ made clear, a lack of union rights and
freedom of conscience for individual journalists has enabled unscrupulous
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Mastering my own domain
ALL good things come to an end and so it is for The Word On
The Wall and its sister blog The Book Is The Life as they head off into a
well-earned retirement, but all is not lost since their legacy shall live on.
As you might recall from an earlier post, the publisher
Inspired Quill (IQ) has signed up my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-76342655198194540282012-02-15T20:11:00.000+00:002012-02-15T20:11:00.969+00:00POETRY: Joseph Rowntree Foundation Shows Nobody's Too Old<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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This geriatric ‘timebomb’ calls for poetry in motion
By Mark Cantrell
SAY what you like about poetry, it’s certainly versatile,
more so than our society as it struggles to cope with the growing population of
elderly people.
The old ways of dealing with the issues of senescence no
longer quite cut it, according to a lot of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-21726777513450493182012-02-14T11:00:00.000+00:002012-02-14T11:00:03.035+00:00Library Fight<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Sounding off for
local libraries
By Mark Cantrell
A library is traditionally a place of hush but now a
coalition of campaigners is looking to shout the roof down in their defence.
Next month, trade unionists, library staff and library
lovers are to host a joint lobby of Parliament to tell MPs in no uncertain
terms that library Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-38537154511182566952012-02-05T17:51:00.000+00:002012-02-05T17:52:39.811+00:00REVIEW: Etchings of Power by Terry C Simpson
Etchings of Power by Terry C Simpson is a slick piece of
work by any measure, from its editing and formatting, through its natty use of
graphic illustration, to the sheer detail and vivid life that powers the
storytelling
A masterful work of epic fantasy
Etchings of Power
(Aegis of the Gods Book 1)
By Terry C Simpson
Edited by D Kai Wilson-Viola | Cover Art by Gonzalo Ordonez
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Kill the bill not the
vulnerable, protestors demand
CAMPAIGNERS resisting the Government’s Welfare Reform Bill
say their protest in London against “cruel and unnecessary cuts” was an
“amazing success”, bringing the busy Oxford Circus to a “complete standstill”,
but the resistance is far from over.
The numbers might seem small,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-83372551537784818532012-01-10T22:09:00.000+00:002012-01-10T22:09:09.145+00:00Gaga For Gagarin<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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'Space cadets'
offered a share of Gagarin's limelight
AN independent filmmaker is offering British space
enthusiasts the chance to add their names to a roll-call commemorating Soviet
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (pictured) – the first man to venture into Earth orbit.
For a small sum star-struck cosmo-philes can get their name
included Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-49803157724863852492012-01-06T18:24:00.003+00:002012-01-06T18:24:45.885+00:00Hise Rise For Indies
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Hise on the rise – and he's taking indies with him
An Arizona-based author's new website is looking to do rather more than
promote his own work – he intends the site to become a vehicle to help drive
the development of independent writers.
More authors are turning to new technology to take their works to market, be
they purelyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-26298684626786752482011-12-21T19:00:00.000+00:002012-01-04T01:36:37.253+00:00Silas Sets Forth
Signed with an
Inspired Quill
For a man who makes a living out of words, it's quite
disconcerting to find myself suddenly speechless: still that's the effect a
book deal can have on an author.
Yes, that's right – a book deal.
I am greatly pleased to say that my novel Silas Morlock
has been taken on by up-and-coming publisher Inspired Quill (IQ) and is
scheduled for release towards Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-30709451756095472772011-12-18T14:00:00.001+00:002012-01-04T01:36:00.247+00:00Ripping Yarn
Deep, dark and gruesome
Third Sight
By Ian Woodhead
Reviewed by Mark Cantrell
ONCE again the delightfully twisted mind of Ian Woodhead has
concocted yet another cracking horror story – and this one really isn’t for the
faint-hearted.
Something demonic and nasty has latched onto Adrian and it’s
going to kill everyone he knows and cares about unless he can figure out howAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-75193421167801739862011-12-15T21:35:00.000+00:002012-01-04T01:35:35.643+00:00Feel The Guilt
Seeing
Red and feeling Cross, this ‘charity’ has gone too far
By Mark Cantrell
THE
letter landed on the doormat with all the urgency of a final demand, but this
was no stern warning from some self-imposed authority barking a bellicose
warning on the consequences of my fiscal shortcomings.
No,
this letter was a guilt trip, or maybe that should be a guilt trap: if there
was any Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-33390996079890207842011-12-09T22:18:00.001+00:002012-01-04T01:34:32.507+00:00Feeling Peaky
Dr Eurich
Conquering the scourge of anthrax
Back in 2002 (or thereabouts), a terror scare erupted after several people received mail contaminated with anthrax spores. In the wake of that, I found myself being interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds as an 'expert' thanks to the following article I'd written some years before. Fortunately, I was interviewed alongside a genuine expert. Aside Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-81137556366471395372011-12-03T17:29:00.001+00:002012-01-04T01:33:58.143+00:00A Word With Me
Interviewed on Indies Unlimited
Check out the blog Indies Unlimited for an interview with Mark Cantrell, the author of Citizen Zero. And once you've finished that, you might care to stick around and discover a wealth of indie authoring talent...
Author Mark Cantrell has been told his writing demonstrates a
certain dry humor, a cynical wit, and a tendency towards the darker Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-80438601350999857792011-11-25T21:42:00.001+00:002012-01-04T01:33:33.839+00:00Life's Too Short
Deus Ex Insomnia
Orbital Decay
By Mark Cantrell
We orbit,
Far away, but with each turn
We spiral ever closer
To the terminal point of doom.
Behold it, in space-time
Like the Reaper, cowled
By the shattered remains
Of matter & thought,
Tumbling slow into the dark space
Within.
Closer now, we spin,
Each of us in turn
Tumbling towards that Dark Abyss
At the end of our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-21335421697149792002011-11-14T11:22:00.001+00:002012-01-04T01:32:21.620+00:00Screw The King
In the republic of
the word
By Mark Cantrell
ONE of these days I’m going to start blogging.
Hang on, though, isn’t this a blog? Well, no. Sure, it’s a
blogging platform, but I started this site as a place to post my writing work
rather than to actually blog per se.
That’s why it’s filled with poems and fiction, newsy bits
(the ones that catch my eye – a hangover from a writers’ Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-53590831459679103372011-11-06T13:18:00.000+00:002012-01-04T01:31:51.392+00:00Was Tebbitt A Spaceman?
Visionary spaceman?
Sign On To The Stars
There's a fine line between visionary and madman, but in this 2005 article, Mark Cantrell wondered if Lord Tebbitt hadn't actually been beckoning us to a future among the stars when he famously declared 'on yer bike'
FOR
those old enough to remember, it's a staggering claim but Norman – now Lord –Tebbitt is destined to go down in
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You looking at me?
OKAY, so unaccustomed as I am to letting a video camera steal a slice of my soul, I endured the glassy gaze for the sake of UKFast's roundtable discusion on the alleged death of traditional print and the rise of digital publishing.
Here's the results. The discussion lasted a good hour and covered a lot of ground, so you obviously wouldn't want to sit through all that, so Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-83344559693104022232011-10-23T20:40:00.000+01:002012-01-04T01:25:28.689+00:00Digital Screaming
Take your fingers out
of the dyke!
As the nascent Indie publishing scene develops, its greatest
challenge is not just to win the battle for respectability, writes Mark
Cantrell – but also to avoid becoming a pale imitation of the big publishing
corporates
YEARS ago, I wrote that the “floodgates should be opened to
a deluge of talent” and now it appears to be happening, but not in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4718144981156345038.post-44636065150236487272011-10-20T22:15:00.001+01:002012-01-04T01:24:56.109+00:00Dead Good In Brum
In the city of the
undead, novelty stirs
Necropolis Rising
By Dave Jeffrey
Amazon (Kindle Edition)
ASIN: B0042P53RY
Publisher: Disturbed Earth (First Edition, September 2010)
Review by Mark Cantrell
ZOMBIE novels are ten a penny these days, often as not
putting the lie into the claimed demand for originality by mainstream publishers,
but every so often one of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03581058869206248938noreply@blogger.com0