He is still a child, but this is not a children’s book. 17. A mind that doesn’t know right from wrong…accidentally hypnotised and re-progammed for success by a motivational CD found in a stolen car…a warning to all fathers and sons
Read A Kick In The Gurus on amazon.
Some stories just have to be sweary. This is one of them. Some stories will make you swear. This is one of them. Some novels change your life for the worse. This is one of them. Some stories become an unhealthy obsession in readers’ minds. This is one of them. Some readers need to love those who are unlovable until they realise that a part of them may also be unlovable. You are one of them. Some readers know that to stand in front of a cracked mirror is the only way to see the real you.
You are ready.
WordPress invited me to do it properly and so I signed up for a course on how to make your blogs more interesting. Lesson 1 is to write a blog with the above title, to bring you closer. Not close enough so we both know what the other’s eaten, but close enough to have a gander with our glasses off. Close enough for a spraff, as Maxi says in A Kick in the Gurus.
Welcome. Do we need another author? Do we need another bird whistling in the world? Possibly not. Does the bird give a shit? It’s going to keep on whistling ‘cos that’s what it does. It’s a bird.
I write and I’ll keep writing for you. Who is that you I’m writing for? A glaringly snide rhetorical second person persuasive technique to make you think I’m talking to you directly? Am I forcing you too close? Can you smell what I had for dinner?
No. The you is the person who falls in love with the story I’ve written, or hates it to the point they obsess about it and tell everyone about it, or whose head and heart hurts as they read it. A Kick in the Gurus is a bit like medicine – it doesn’t always taste good, but it’s good for you.
Some thoughts are not comfortable to think, but still, it’s better to think than not think, and the thoughts that come at the end of uncomfortable thoughts? Sometimes, they’re the best thoughts of all.
A Kick in the Gurus is also like medicine in that in the wrong hands, it easily becomes just a street drug that will fuck you up. You can be harmed or healed by the same words. Hmm, I’ve not answered the who I am and why I’m here promise of the title, yet, but it’s on its way. Make this a preface, then, a not-quite-my-face, a forming face.
You look good with your glasses off, by the way, you can stay this close if you’d like.
In four days, the previews of A Kick in the Gurus will begin on the site. Using the ropes I’m learning right now, the previews will also be in tiny audio mp3s. So, if you’re into pleasuring your ears with books, I hope these spoken snips will bring much light to your shadows. Sign up or comment to get note of each preview’s release, or else, pop back here for a few seconds on Fathers Day to meet the first preview.
I’ve spelled Fathers with and without an apostrophe in the last couple of posts. I know I’m doing it. Leave me alone.
Here’s to another day of your short life. Make the most & please share this post.
Thank you for being a reader,
Maclean
London, 2018
Maclean Mottram 