Author: Seanpaul Thomas
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Contemporary/Dark/Adult Fiction/British Men's Adventure
Publisher: Paul Thomas Publishing
Release Date: Aug 2014
Blurb/Synopsis:
If you knew you only had a short time left to live on this planet, really live. What would you do with that precious time?
A dark, sexy, black humorous tale of sex, violence, the male psyche, and an unstoppable whirlwind adventure of finding love in the least likely location.
Short Synopsis - Set in modern day Edinburgh - A man with terminal brain cancer decides to rebel against society and go out with a bang by living out his dreams and most wild fantasies. But even when he finds love and a new lease of life, it fails to stop his new adventurous ways from spiraling into an unstoppable train wreck of carnage.
Long Synopsis - Set in modern day Edinburgh, an average everyday working man in his mid-thirties is given the devastating news that he has terminal Brain Cancer. Refusing any kind of help or Chemo, he struggles with overbearing thoughts on becoming a better person and giving into his natural urges, social fears and sexual desires to do and act however the hell he pleases. No longer wishing to obey the rules and regulations of monotonous everyday life. Now our hero yearns to know what it's like to live a life without regret and consequences while his mind is still a healthy functioning one. The story unfolds with a slow burning tension as our hero eventually turns his back on modern day society and begins using his terminal illness as a license to act out his biggest dreams and fantasies. Good and bad. While also squaring up to a couple of long time buried, but not forgotten, demons from his past. But when he finds love along the way even that comes with a heavy price.
****WARNING CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING****
Scottish dialect/slang, Strong Violence and Language in parts and a couple of Graphic Sex Scenes.
Practical Advice for Beginning Writers…
I guess my one piece of practical advice for beginning writers would be to lay of a little on the description. Especially when describing things, people and scenic views in great massive detail. I think readers nowadays have a better experience with a book when they have more freedom to use their own imaginations. It was fine 100 years ago when people couldn't get around much and had to rely on an author's awesome description of every brick, stone, flower, fabric of clothing, nook and cranny, wrinkles and freckles upon a persons face. But these days people have amazing and flamboyant imaginations. Most people today have travelled to many places across the globe and seen a lot of things, whether in real life or on a TV screen. Readers are so much more intelligent now than they ever have been and writers have to realise this and adapt accordingly. I struggled with this for such a long time when I first started writing. I wanted to describe everything that I imagined in great deep detail and leave nothing for the readers imagination. And people have such low attention spans now too that you could just as easily end up boring the hell out of them with your bogged down descriptive writing.
So yeah, I think and hope and pray, that I'm slowly getting better at this.
I guess my one piece of practical advice for beginning writers would be to lay of a little on the description. Especially when describing things, people and scenic views in great massive detail. I think readers nowadays have a better experience with a book when they have more freedom to use their own imaginations. It was fine 100 years ago when people couldn't get around much and had to rely on an author's awesome description of every brick, stone, flower, fabric of clothing, nook and cranny, wrinkles and freckles upon a persons face. But these days people have amazing and flamboyant imaginations. Most people today have travelled to many places across the globe and seen a lot of things, whether in real life or on a TV screen. Readers are so much more intelligent now than they ever have been and writers have to realise this and adapt accordingly. I struggled with this for such a long time when I first started writing. I wanted to describe everything that I imagined in great deep detail and leave nothing for the readers imagination. And people have such low attention spans now too that you could just as easily end up boring the hell out of them with your bogged down descriptive writing.
So yeah, I think and hope and pray, that I'm slowly getting better at this.
Born in London to Scottish and Irish parents, Sean spent
most of his childhood and teenage years growing up on the move in the likes of
Cyprus, Germany, Wales and England as an army brat. With a keen interest in
both reading and writing he was diagnosed with the travel and writing bugs very
early on in life. Now, writing, reading
and traveling are his main passions in life, but he also loves outdoor sports
too from Rugby and Hiking to Tennis and Boxing. His main inspiration for
writing today comes from living in such a beautiful, Gothic and hauntingly, awe
inspiring city such as Edinburgh. This charming wee city has given Sean so much
amazing inspiration to write the more time he spends there.
At this moment Sean is writing another two books, one is a
sequel to his science fiction novel Alone. The other is about an alcoholic man
down on his luck and still dwelling over past tragedies. Who, after a failed
suicide attempt, falls for a single mother with an even darker and secretive
tragic past than his own.
So far he has two
published work of fiction
And four self-published
novels.
Places to find SeanPaul
Places to find Lust for Life
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