Back & Forth ...& Fifth, too?

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Bonjour/Hello! Yes, I'd be interested in collaborating with you on this .Last year I wrote a novel (which we self-published) called 'The Shopping List' a sort of mixed up romantic story that starts in a supermarket and ends... well I'm not going to tell you (yet). My co-author (a young lady final year art student at a British University) wrote most of the bits for the lead female character, and I (a much, much older Conceptual Artist and Writer living in France) wrote most of the bits for the lead bloke in the book. It took about 4 months to write (a period that included my collaborator's final exams), and it was great fun to do with texts to-ing and fro-ing on an almost daily basis. We did manage to meet up for a couple of hours just before we started on the penultimate chapter.

Two questions: first, what theme(s) are planned for your books? Second, how long will each contribution be?

Regards, Val(entine Mark Herman)

PS look at the Creative Writing page in my web-site, www.val-herman-art.eu

PPS In an earlier reincarnation I was responsible for lots of UN-creative writing too, but let's not go into that!

[K Pannell]

Hmmm. Maybe I wasn't clear on the fact that the books are not necessarily literary. They can be filled with anything - pictures, collages, drawings, words. I'd be happy to have you participate in writing a narrative/story - that I would illustrate. I'm not myself much of a writer.

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Thanks Kiera, still count me IN the project --whether its's words, images or whatever. Regards Val