A Home for an Orphan Girl

  Foucault’s Daughter has found a home! She is going to be residing at the rather chaotic, exciting and a little bit dirty House of Zizek. Zizek press is the future! I am not going to sell the book on Amazon due to the fact it is a copyright legal case waiting to happen. So [...]

You, Reader

‘I wonder how you’re going to feel When you find out that I wrote this Instead of you’. I have been dealing with having readers for the first time, in the formal sense, as a few people have read Foucault’s Daughter. And, as is to be expected, most of those few are writers too. When [...]

Foucault’s Daughter: A Reader’s Response

  Elise at Autobiography of A Soul has blogged about her reactions to Foucault’s Daughter. It doesn’t give the story away but her piece and our discussion does cover some of the issues raised in the book (and on this blog. I worry sometimes, dear readers if you get bored of me, and my ‘issues’!) [...]

Settling The Score

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70116 I felt two moments of relief, of ‘closure’ during the process of writing Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. The first was when I finished writing the last words of the final scene – and you can see how much I wanted it to be the end when I tell you those words were ‘It’s over’. [...]

The Inevitable Sign

Roland Barthes crops up in Scribbling on Foucault’s Walls. In fact, in some ways, I might have called the work ‘Scribbling on Roland’s Walls’. The spirit of the writing is more Barthes than Foucault. And my feelings are often torn between Roland and Michel, both emotionally and intellectually. Luckily it is ok to love more [...]

Foucault’s Daughter In Full! Free on Smashwords

Here is Foucault’s Daughter in all her glory. Be nice to her she is a bit scared of the big, wide world… http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70116

The Uses of Literacy

The problem with writing is it never finishes. Foucault’s Daughter was supposed to mark the ‘end’ of something but it has failed in that. I started talking about fandom, and Pulp and (Saint) Morrissey, and the Great Men of Pop Mythology.  Of  ‘fagiography’ . And then I remembered The Uses of Literacy. The artist Jeremy [...]

My Beautiful Fossils

This is a cartoon featuring images of (l-r)  Levi Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. My beautiful fossils. It might be Zeeland, Maker, Halperin, Simpson. ‘It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making’. [...]

Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #1 Madness Is Childhood

I could not keep my patient QRG readers waiting any longer. So here is the first of three-parts of Foucault’s Daughter, aka Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. It is available FREE on smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70119 I am busy trying to get an e-publisher at the moment, so if I am successful the whole novel/la (it is quite [...]

Cemetery Gates: #Foucault’s Daughter On Youtube

Foucault’s Daughter is probably not made for the big screen. I think my novella is very much for reading. But, it does contain some choice clips from some wonderful films. I won’t give the story away by putting them in context, except that I think you may be able to see a common thread running [...]