What's it all about, Alfie!?

Time and space are of the essence in the blogosphere, that's for sure. If the point you're making is not easily accessible in both these terms - then you might as well just stick it on the inside shelf of Davy Jones' Locker and go for a pint. Case in point. A couple of readers got on to me recently to ask me what the title of this blog meant - something I explained when I started to write it 52 days ago but which I now understand is the equivalent of 6,306 light-years ago in blog time! But since they've asked, I suppose that allows me to tell y'all agayun. The Dualist refers to the working title of a book I finished earlier this summer and this blog is designed, in a round about way, to promote the fact while I try to drum up some interest in it from agents and the like. Whether it ever sees a cover, a shelf, or the light of day is up in the air it's true but that's another day's yap. For now suffice it to say that The Dualist is the working title of the book, a crime thriller. The Dualism or Dualist in the title refers to its main characters (there are two of them!) who at times feel as if they are different people (when pitted against each other as fate has it!) and I felt that this was a better title than the original one, The Seventh Victim, which I liked but which I felt lacked some fundamental ingredient (about the dualism!) and therefore wasn't succinct enough to claim the title!

And what's it all about? Well, briefly it's about a Dublin taxi-driver who poses as the author of a cutting-edge crime thriller which becomes a bestseller and makes him world famous but in doing so also brings about his downfall - as soon as his nemesis reads it. Dan-dan-dan! So there ye have it. But if that's not enough then be sure to tune into this blog next week as I will be posting the first five chapters in order to give you a flavour of what it's about and, in the process, instill a strong urge in you to march the streets demanding its immediate publication and a place for its author on the Booker shortlist! So now.

More tomorrow...

The Opus und Ich!