Welcome - The International Writers Magazine - MAY 2007

Welcome to the May Edition of Hackwriters.

Quite an issue developing this month. We have features from Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Spain, Beijing, Holland, El Salvador and Brighton beach, USA. We have memories of Kurt Vonnegut and the Rolling Stones (35 years since Exile on Main street was launched) as well as Hassan Al Karmi, the broadcaster.
We have fiction from everywhere. Hackwriters is nothing but global and it's astonishing just how far away and near everyone is now. We have reams of new stories and you could fill a whole day just reading us and nothing else. I wonder how long people do actually spend reading on- line or do people print them off. Never quite sure.

Right here in Portsmouth we have dissertations coming out of ears and more big projects to come in. Panic has set in and marking begins in earnest this week.- Joy. I have a pile floor to ceiling to get through, so if I don't get around to updating Hacks too much, it may be because I am slightly depressed about it all.

We have two good outcomes though, Scriptwriter Magazine in the UK has picked up two of my screenwriting students essays on all the pain I put them through... will be out in July. That's what I call a learning outcome. Both are former contributors to Hacks as well. Nice when this happens.
Another three/four weeks of marking to go. Nevermind, it happens every year around this time. Luckily someone loves me and will stroke my head from time to time and say 'there there...'

You can see what our students write by logging onto BORDERLINES at Lulu Press. It's our first published anthology of writing from the Creative Writing Degree here at Portsmouth University so it's a start. You can download it really cheaply too, we really make it easy for you. A big thank you must go to Kit Thomas for helping out beyond the call of duty with this book. I am always astonished at how much time people will give to others and more than ever aware that fundementally there are a lot of very good people around. Remember that if you ever get overloaded and think the world has gone to hell. Some people care and they are the ones who make life worth living. We have one student, who wishes to be nameless, but is involved with the Borderline project, who every day gives up her time to help feed and clean homeless people in Portsmouth. Being a cynic, I am always being caught off guard by others peoples generosity.

Meanwhile, you need some good holiday reading? Read my book '‘Another Place to Die'' . If you have the slightest worry about how to surving the coming flu pandemic, you need this book and all the proceeds go to keep Hackwriters going. So order now for your vacation reading. You will not be disappointed.
Someone who just read it described it as: ‘Thought-provoking, horrifying and moving’ It’s essential reading for anyone who wants to survive the next flu pandemic. You just might want to be prepared. The Government is taking it seriously. Are you? Order the book now. If you want to be prepared for the coming flu pandemic you will need 'Another Place to Die'
Sam North
Editor
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© Sam North Editor May 16th 2007

PS: The MA in Creative Writing is recruiting now for October 2007 entry. Apply now to avoid being disappointed. You do not have to be published to join us, but you do have to have a portfolio of some interesting writing already to hand. *Hackwriter published writers especially welcome. Come to Sherlock Holmes country (yes this is where it all started on Elm Grove in Southsea).

We at Hacks are self-supporting and if you want to support us, buy Sam's books - All the funds from the sale of the books go back into the site. If you live in New York they can be ordered at the Mysterious Bookshop at 58 Warren Street. These titles are able to be ordered at Amazon who keep stock see below and can be ordered from Waterstones all over the UK and Hatchards in London and for less cost direct from Lulu.com in the UK and USA

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Another Place To Die by Sam North ISBN: 978-1-84753-899-4 The Great Flu Pandemic of 2009 is coming. Are you prepared? Reviews: 'It will keep readers in suspense, laced with gritty-gallows humor' Charlie Dickinson 'Beautiful, plausible, and sickeningly addictive, Another Place to Die will terrify you, thrill you, and make you petrified of anyone who comes near you...'. Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk Read the first chapter on line Order Now direct from Publisher : Another Place To Die

The Curse of the Nibelung - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Sam North ISBN 1-4116-3748-8 $19.98 Retail - 300 pages - Lulu Press USA 'Chocolate will never be the same again' - Sunday Express Buy from your favourite on-line retailer Amazon UK Amazon USA Barnes and Noble & Waterstones Or buy direct from Lulu Press plus delivery charges

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 is available also. $19.95 from Amazon.com in the USA or on special offer from the publishers direct - see box below.

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 By Sam North ISBN: 1-4116-1088-1 Buy now from Amazon.com 'a terrific piece of storytelling' Historical Novel Society Review Now printed in the UK and available from Amazon.co.uk & Waterstones

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