Eyes to the sky

Chicken Hypnosis

Feather & Bone contains a code revealing the date this year that a great calamity will befall the earth.

If you can't crack the code, however, find your nearest poultry farm and observe.


For they KNOW!


Should you encounter a stricken chicken, one in need of treatment for emotional exhaustion, here's how it's done

first converts

Readers familiar with my belief system will understand why I have chosen not to surface to discuss my novel, Feather & Bone.

After years of preparation for the End Time, which WILL occur this year, it would be foolish of me to venture back to the UK in order to introduce my book to readers. If my calculations proved to be just slightly out, I could find myself stuck in the Confident Readers section without shelter and supplies.

Instead, I have dispatched my friend and literary executor, Mr Matt Whyman. I suspect he does not share my conviction that an almighty catacylsm is set to occur on earth. When I asked him to represent me at an event to mark World Book Day on March 5th, he seemed almost pleased to be offered the spotlight. I can only think he hadn't been invited to partake in any events in his own right as a thriller writer.

Still, I am grateful to my friend for undertaking this venture. He reported back that the audience - fine, attentive students from Rudyard Kipling School in Brighton, paid great attention to the warnings relayed on my behalf. Each and every young reader then returned to their homes with a book in hand and every intention of stockpiling baked beans and bottled water in preparation for the apocalypse.

Above is a photograph of a somewhat shabbily-dressed Mr Whyman - a man crying out for a haircut, it seems - along with my wise young converts. Look beyond the fixed grins, and you can see the sense of dread and panic in their eyes.

As ever, the anotations to this image are all by my own hand.

Feather & Bone: out now!

The date has arrived for my first novel, to see the light of day.

Lazlo Strangolov's Feather & Bone is now available from all good bookstores. If, like me, you are reluctant to visit the shops, you can buy it online as well.

I shall be marking the occasion by researching the significance of the publishing date: 02/03/09. Here are some highlight events that occurred on this date through history:

1791: Invention of the semaphore machine;
1933: King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Hall;
1939: Death of Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun;
1972: The Pioneer Spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a mission to explore the outer planets.

Be aware that there are now just 304 shopping days left until Christmas, but a great deal less than that before catastrophe befalls our world.