The Easter weekend has begun, and the country is about to shut down until Monday night, while people meet their relatives, go on picnics and have a good time.
Karavansara will phase out for two days while we do some revision and refurbishing of the blog.
Happy Easter!
Important, insightful post by Tommy Hancock
I am very happy to announce that the first story in my new series, The Corsair, is out and available for purchase.
Called Chasing the Mermaid, it is the first novella in the planned series1 of stand-alone yarns in the style of the old adventure pulps.
The Corsair, Chasing the Mermaid is published by the fine gentlemen of Raven’s Head Press, and it is available through Amazon2.
In the next few days I’ll bore you to death with details and stuff, but right now I’m happy to leave you with the words of the great Bobby Nash…
Davide Mana’s Chasing The Mermaid is pure pulp fiction in the truest sense of the world. Tough as nails hero, hard-core action, nail-biting suspense, adventure and danger around the globe, and of course, a vile villain and beautiful women. Who could ask for anything more? This is a fun pulpy read.
— Bobby Nash – Author: Alexandra Holzer’s Ghost Gal: The Wild Hunt, Domino Lady: Money Shot
Sounds good, right?
Today marks fifty years since the original publication of Conan the Adventurer by Lancer Books.
The collection, edited by Lyon Sprague de Camp, was the first in a series of paperbacks that revived the interest of the fantasy-reading public for Howard’s character.
The book featured an iconic cover by Frank Frazetta.
Some people I love live in Bruxelles.
As some live in Paris, in Ankara, in New York.
In London, in Rome.
I have friends and loved ones in a number of places, all over the globe – I am lucky like that. And as the situation grows more confused, I sometimes wonder if I am doing anything to help. Then, about fifteen minutes ago, I read this…
   Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want.
Somewhere, there is always a war.
Somewhere, there is always the threat of an act of terrorism.
Somewhere, there is always a woman or a child in peril.
Nature itself delivers devastating tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes.
In the light of this onslaught of shadows, is it naïve to try to shine a little light into the darkness? After all, these stories are only small flashlights of prose and who knows how long their batteries will last?
I don’t know. But naïve or not, I will continue to do so for as long as I can find the stories, or for as long as they find me.
I’m a writer. And this is what I do. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings.
So these stories are important — to me, at least. Each one is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other.
(Charles De Lint, introduction to Triskell Tales 2)
Sounds like a plan to me.
Keep writing.
Karavansara 