Hopeful Romantics

Just shows to go you, sometimes the fates smile, or at least start laughing at you for having the temerity to see the irony in all things. My first novel, The Constant Travellers, is now up in the Chinese Amazon store. Forever, I was a mere phantom on the China literary scene, probably because of my roman a clef, The Guys Who Spied for China. Funny thing is, while Chinese Espionage efforts may be deemed by the government unfitting for the perusal of the Chinese Intellect, Constant Travellers is just fine with them. Which is the metaphysical Western Fantasy dealing with Sex, Drugs, in the West that Never Was. This is the version picked up by iUniverse in its Author’s Guild Back in Print Program. The original novel was first published by Putnam’s, in the Year of our Lord…well the date was inscribed in chisel and stone. I was twenty six-years-old or 27 when Putnam’s first let it loose.

The original cover was designed for G.P. Putnams Publishing by Ron Walotsky. Ron Ron Walotsky was a science fiction and fantasy artist who enjoyed a long and prolific career painting book and magazine covers, including Stephen King, Anne Rice,[2] Bruce Sterling, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg and many others….This cover was in Ron’s earlier years. He was kind enough to sell me the original painting for the book cover. It still hangs in my living room. The digital eBook version of the Constant Travellers, is adorned by the original cover.