My latest book, entitled Love, Death, the Cosmos, and the Kitchen Sink, has now been released. It is a compendium of the most relevant of my blogs written since January 2019. Because each of the blogs has a photograph attached, I have resorted to colour printing for my book. It is a handsome production.
It is non fiction. This, for me, is a departure from my preferred genre. I reproduce here the blurb from its back cover, which is written in first person, as befits promotional material for a book comprising personal revelations:
Over the years I, scientist turned writer of fiction, have taken to writing blogs, describing my musings, memories, and misgivings. I now publish a selection of these blogs covering the years just prior to the Covid pandemic, the Covid years themselves, and the years we have presumed and hoped are post-Covid.
There are eighty-one blogs so there’s something here for everyone. There’s the burning of rainforests not to mention the rest of the country. There’s the epic – and perhaps eternal – struggle between education and ignorance. There’s the spectacle of my life-partner Janet in poses both humorous and sublime.
And here you’ll also find the first woman in Australia to die of AIDS, the art of the dedicated conspiracy theorist, the wonderland of the cosmos, the denial of anthropogenic climate change which science tells us is essentially undeniable, the passage of Vladimir Putin and me – in our respective journeys – right by each other like ships in the night, the magic of Japanese food dance and art, the beauty of birds, the road trips forced upon us by the Covid years, the spectre of Artificial Intelligence with its inherent – and potentially dire – problems, and my love of the small coastal village in Queensland where I live. And on it goes.
My pretence of distant and disinterested observer in all of this was rudely interrupted when my partner Janet died accidentally and suddenly. Then I found myself blogging in the depths of despair about my reaction to the most traumatic event a person will experience in their lifetime outside of a war zone.
Terry Deague
So, where do you find my book? Well unfortunately, not yet on my website. I shall organize to have links on my website to a variety of online sellers, but this won’t happen until early 2025. Meanwhile, you’ll have to go directly to the sites of the online sellers themselves, the ones that currently stock my book. These are Amazon, Booktopia, Barnes and Noble, and Waterstones. Others will follow in due course. I have found that, over time, the news tends to spread like an infection to all and sundry.
My book should be available to you as a paperback or as an e-book.
Good reading.