The blurb purports that the book will help us understand a science of society that enables us to predict and analyse human behaviour by looking at the impact of decisions taken in large groups. Or something like that – it isn’t terribly clear. The interior is concerned with the discipline of econophysics – applying statistical physics to economics to understand how individual behaviours emerge in group outcomes, from traffic and the stock exchange to the ways in which people try to escape a burning building. Economics has striven to become more scientific for decades: in this book Ball demonstrates how that can be achieved.
From 21st to the 28th I there will be a Dead Moon Book Blitz with reviews hosted by Anne Cater’s Random Things Through my Letter Box, promotions by BookBub and Amazon, and for the full week a reduced e-book price to a teeny-tiny 99p (or $0.99 or similar in your territory)
Dead Moon is the story of a fighter pilot trying to get pregnant during the last days of the end of the world, and her quest to help her wingman stop mysterious messages coming from a man claiming to be his dead husband. It’s an action-packed road trip, a thoughtful exploration of an alternative future, and a tale of friendship under the most difficult of circumstances. It won Shelf Unbound Best Book 2020: Notable Indie, and you’ll never read another book quite like it.
So, if you’d like to give my second novel a chance and make my day, you can buy it in electronic format or paperback from amazon by clicking here, it will be at an e-book discount from 21-28th February, and you can check out reviews from the above sites from the 23rd-26th February.
I’ve been disabled for almost twenty years now, ever since a long fall military diving training messed up my nervous system (and immune system along with it). For the last couple of months I’ve been constantly ill. If the kids cough, I spend three days throwing up. Worst still, these maladies are overlapping, eroding my underlying health and aggravating my disability.
While all this is going on, my wife is striving against incredible pressure from work (she’s amazing), the kids are dealing with all the changes that happen when you’re 2, 4 and 6, and you need you parents close by, and I am trying to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime by writing a book specifically requested by a client (alongside a sci-fi novel, a research project and trying to keep my radio production company alive.)
Not to put to fine a point on it, and with all the damage to my enormous masculine pride admitting it entails, I’m not coping. So what should I do? What should any of us do, fighting to manage our lives while the world goes crazy around us?
Dannie Cohan is a determined, career driven lawyer, in a relationship with a supportive, career driven man and clear, purposeful five-year plan. Her best friend Bella couldn’t be more different – flighty, prone to fall in love at the drop of a hat, and desperate that Dannie find more romance in her life.
And… that’s all I’m going to say about what happens. Seriously, try not to read the blurb. The less you know about this book going in, the better. You’re in for some glorious surprises.
The event was held (thanks to the extraordinary Stephanie Campion of Moving Parts, who organised a zoom reading of the plays), the votes were cast, and the winner of this years Little Wonder Radio Play Competition is Denise Deegan with “The Last PTA Meeting.”
The Last PTA Meeting was a wonderful, warm, funny play with cracking dialogue and a lot to say about family and parenting. It was a delight to see the play grow and develop through the course of the competition, and it is a well deserved winner.
Warmest congratulations are also due to our other finalists, Amber Elen-Forbat, Mark Blayney, Paul Stone, and Declan Kennedy, who helped ensure an excellent evenings entertainment with imaginative, inventive and diverse plays that would have been worthy competition winners themselves. Thank you everyone.
Now that congratulations have been showered, the rest of this article is an interview with our winner Denise Deegan, so you can learn more about her, her writing, and how she celebrated winning the 2020 Little Wonder Radio Play Competition. Enjoy and read on!
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