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In my latest audiobook release, narrator David Micklem does wonderful things with my Keats novel, The Fine Point of His Soul.
This is an alternate history about the poet John Keats’ last months in Rome, Italy. He went there for his health, and initially did feel an improvement, but alas in Real Life his days were numbered. My story has him feeling better for the journey, and instead he and his companion Joseph Severn take part in a ‘Gothic fantasy’ adventure, working against the villainous Adrian Hart. Keats and Severn are joined by the POV character naval lieutenant Andrew Sullivan, along with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron and his servant William Fletcher.
I recently listened to an audio play of Dracula, and was reminded of one of my sources of inspiration. An odd mix of seven ‘ordinary’ people teamed up against a (possibly) supernatural villain… Some tropes, I trust, never get old!
For those of you who enjoy my queer fiction, I should point out that my main character (Keats) and my POV character (Sullivan) are both straight, and pining after their lost lady-loves. With Byron in the mix, however, I can also promise some gay goings-on!
And on that wicked note... the buy links are listed towards the end of the newsletter!
- Cover design by me.
- Image: © bpk Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; attributed to Giorgione da Castelfranco, Brustbild einen jungen Mannes (Half-length portrait of a young man).
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