A Bugle For The New Day

Welcome to my new website. It is my intention to make this subdomain dedicated to fiction, and general writing. The main feature of this site is an uploading of an original novel, chapter by chapter, as a work in progress. The novei will be interspersed by entries of general fiction and other writings, book reviews and literary works I’ve come to enjoy.

I am inspired by Kathleen Maher and LaJanssen, who’s combined advice and the formers novel “Diary of a Heretic” led me to the notion of uploading a novel by installments.

The novel in question is entitled “A Bugle For The New Day”. It was written in the ’90’s by my late Father, Frank Pearson, who sadly never came to see his work publisised in his own lifetime. It is a family saga, set in Mid Wales slate mining industry, in late 19th century United Kingdom. I am typing it up on to my computer, from my Father’s original manuscript. I think he was one of the last to use the traditional typewriter, and perhaps the local shop here were amused by his typewriter ribbon requirements

My Father was an emotional man, who wore his heart on his sleeve, and a great lover of real English launguage. He used a flowery descriptive, evocative style of writing, not typical of todays fiction, but will no doubt be enjoyed by lovers of old Welsh and English charm.

I aim to use this website as a tribute to my Fathers literay skills, also to share other writings with you, of my Father also myself and other works I’ve come to enjoy. I hope details of my Fathers character, his life and works, will come over as time goes by, not to say my own character too, “thrown in” along the wayside