Welcome - The International Writers Magazine - May 2008 writing from across the globe.
Welcome to the MAY Edition of Hackwriters:

China quakes and thousands die - but at least the government acts to save lives. Quickly too.
Burma lets its people rot as 1.5 million suffer in the aftermath of the huge Cyclone. Over 200,000 may die and epidemics are already starting. Why don't we do direct action to save the Burmese people from their fascist government? Who knows? China should act now to show the world that they can act as responsible citizens in a world sense.

Trouble travels in threes however - so what next? Flu pandemic? Hmm, maybe my book 'Another Place to Die' will come true and I don't think any of us want that.
Sorry if not posting new material at the moment - Just so you know: I have 15 Dissertations to mark, 33 Children's Stories, 25 Screenplays, 14 x 8000 word first chapters of new novels to mark, reports on all, and a magazine to put out.
(No, since you ask, I do not have a life.) So response to new material to Hacks will be sluggish. Sorry. Just in case you think lecturers are underpaid and have nothing to do.... might resurface later, may not be sane though.
*Now one third through. 14.05.2008

Meanwhile check out this months magazine. Lots to read and if you are looking for a good book this summer, order my new novel Mean Tide. I hope you might enjoy it. You can buy it direct from Lulu - and in six weeks from Amazon. It's for kids age 12-16 and all adults. Our content comes from all over the world - explore our fiction, travel writing, opinion and lifestyle features and our reviews as well as muse on the future of the 21st Century. Want to contribute? The June edition will be accepting submissions until May 27th. Enjoy this month and spread the word. We are based at the University of Portsmouth England.

Sam North: Editor May 14th 2008
Sam gone crazy

* The MA in Creative Writing at Portsmouth University started another year this October. Apply now for 2008 entry: The current students have all got their major projects under way now. Novels, screenplays, children's fiction, speculation fiction, crime novels, you name it... If you need support and like a good encouraging peer group, join us. Might do you good to live in Portsmouth for a year, but you don't have to. Students come down from London once a week and further afield. Apply now to avoid being disappointed. You do not have to be published to join us, but you do have to have a portfolio of some interesting writing already to hand. *Hackwriter published writers especially welcome. Come to Sherlock Holmes country (yes this is where it all started on Elm Grove in Southsea).

Meanwhile, you worried about your health this spring? Read my book '‘Another Place to Die'' . If you have the slightest worry about how to survive the coming flu pandemic, you need this book and all the proceeds go to keep Hackwriters going. In the UK newspapers 31.08.07 they were quoting a Home Office paper called: Planning for a possible Influenza Edpidemic and predicting 650,000 'extra' deaths this winter in the UK if it breaks out. There will also be a shortage of coffins, not that you need them in a mass grave. It's all in my book, you don't need this report. Another Place to Die is a guide on how to survive the pandemic. So order now for your autumn reading. (Maybe Amazon will do you a deal on a coffin too!) You will not be disappointed.
See the review from Calvin Hussey
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We at Hacks are self-supporting and if you want to support us, buy Sam's books - All the funds from the sale of the books go back into the site. If you live in New York they can be ordered at the Mysterious Bookshop at 58 Warren Street. These titles are able to be ordered at Amazon who keep stock see below and can be ordered from Waterstones all over the UK and Hatchards in London and for less cost direct from Lulu.com in the UK and USA

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Published May 2008 - Mean Tide by Sam North 'Extraordinary novel about a child's psychic awakening' Lulu Press - ISBN: 978-1-4092-0354-4 Review: 'An engaging, unusual and completely engrossing read' - Beverly Birch author of 'Rift' Be one of the first to read it - Order now Sent to live with his spooky Grandma by the river in Greenwich, Oliver (12) discovers a whole world of disturbed people who are probably even crazier than the ones he left behind. When he finds a dog with its throat cut on the beach, everything changes. Age range 12-16 and adult

Another Place To Die by Sam North ISBN: 978-1-84753-899-4 The Great Flu Pandemic is coming. Are you prepared? Reviews: 'It will keep readers in suspense, laced with gritty-gallows humor' Charlie Dickinson 'Beautiful, plausible, and sickeningly addictive, Another Place to Die will terrify you, thrill you, and make you petrified of anyone who comes near you...'. Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk Fascinating, frightening and compelling, Another Place to Die is the ultimate page-turner which I guarantee will result in many late nights under the bedside light with you uttering, ‘just one more chapter!!’ Ian Middleton Read the first chapter on line Order Now direct from Publisher : Another Place To Die

The Curse of the Nibelung - A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Sam North ISBN 1-4116-3748-8 $19.98 Retail - 300 pages - Lulu Press USA 'Chocolate will never be the same again' - Sunday Express Buy from your favourite on-line retailer Amazon UK Amazon USA Barnes and Noble & Waterstones

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 is also available from the publishers direct

Diamonds - The Rush of '72 By Sam North ISBN: 1-4116-1088-1 Buy now from Amazon.com 'a terrific piece of storytelling' Historical Novel Society Review Also printed in the UK and available from Amazon.co.uk & Waterstones

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