# “I am the entertainer, I bring to you my songs. I'd like to spend a day or two, but I can't stay that long…” # - Billy Joel
As a writer or just as a reader, I love the idea of ‘lost’ or unfinished tales of an author I’m particularly fond of. A little while ago I bought a copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Narrative of John Smith which was billed as a “lost tale” of his and published by the British Library (another place with ‘lost books’ I just have to visit if I’m ever in London) and whenever a new Bernard Cornwell book is released, I enjoy hunting out the “sampler” chapters that Waterstones here in the UK releases as teasers to the main book.
As to my own “sough-after” tales, way back in 2008, I posted here on the blog about a disastrous event that befell me when I mislaid a notebook of stories I’d been working on throughout that year. And to this day, almost ten years later, I still have nightmares where I awake in a panic, wondering just where that pocketbook now resides…
As a writer or just as a reader, I love the idea of ‘lost’ or unfinished tales of an author I’m particularly fond of. A little while ago I bought a copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Narrative of John Smith which was billed as a “lost tale” of his and published by the British Library (another place with ‘lost books’ I just have to visit if I’m ever in London) and whenever a new Bernard Cornwell book is released, I enjoy hunting out the “sampler” chapters that Waterstones here in the UK releases as teasers to the main book.
As to my own “sough-after” tales, way back in 2008, I posted here on the blog about a disastrous event that befell me when I mislaid a notebook of stories I’d been working on throughout that year. And to this day, almost ten years later, I still have nightmares where I awake in a panic, wondering just where that pocketbook now resides…