Projects

Its been a busy time of late, plenty of typing to add to the closet shelf, Samson my next novel is nearly complete.  I've also entered a couple of writing competitions, the first being a comedy sketch titled 'The Supermarket' and the second a 15 minute stage play titled 'The Ghost' they've both been e-mailed so fingers crossed?  I've also written several poems to add to the ever growing collection.

Once Samson is finished I'll be starting a totally different type of project based on a series of new kids characters and stories!!! Watch out for 2013 'The Nebulaars' are coming and they're going to blow you away...........

Blurb

How hard is it to write a blurb.......Jesus I can type for England, idea after idea but the hardest thing in the world is to write the blurb! The one thing people read that decides whether they buy the book or not. You have around 150 words to convince them that they want to read your work, has it got them?  Have you roped them in?  I think that if you're happy with it, then its a good one; you've done all the work typing your 100k words....so you know when you've hit the spot! Have a read of the blurb on The Semiotic Networks and see what you think?

The Semiotic Networks

It just takes one break.......I have a dream for 'The Semiotic Networks' something that has never been done before, never in the history of book, film or television? It would blow it wide open!!! But it takes one break......one great big massive break, so until then it stays buried in my never ending mind.

Come on movie director, agent, TV executive.....take the dip and be the first, and then together we'll blow it wide open!!!  Get ready for a new age of Science Fiction, get ready for the semiotic networks!

DVW Book Club

A big thanks to Dave & Sally at the DVW Book Club for putting 'The Semiotic Networks' on their site, under the Fantasy/Sci-fi section! I've gotta say so myself.....it sounds pretty damn good!!  Check out the link https://sites.google.com/site/dvwbooksorg/fantasy-sci-fi

Mothers Day Poem

We all have a Mom and I hope that everyone who reads this blog understands the words I write as they come from my heart, my Mom passed away when I was seventeen; she was blind, deaf and in the end could not walk.  But she loved me, her only son with all her heart, when she touched my face throughout my teenage years, her touch was gentle, loving and proud.  Looking back, perhaps I was never the best son, but I tried.  I tried to deal with things through the years and now I'm in my forties perhaps as the years have gone on I've become a better person, if she were here now would be proud?  I hope so.........

 

Mom

Mom, Mom; where have you gone,

You left me behind your only son.

I was seventeen when you left me that day,

The tears and the heartache, still have a say!

I know you’d be proud of my family and life,

But I miss you so much, it still cuts like a knife.

So clever, so loving, so gentle and brave,

True for your life from cradle to grave!

For all the things I did wrong in my youth,

I apologise sincerely, my words speak the truth.

Maybe one day I’ll see you and say it true,

Mom, Mom; I love you….X

By

Dean Horton

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BBC School News Report

A big thanks to the pupils and staff at Hillcrest School and Comunity College in Dudley, West Midlands, for making me welcome on Thursday 16th March.

The pupils interviewed me as part of a project they are doing with the BBC, the interview can be seen by following the link below.  I've got to say they did a really profesional job, well done to all involved you are a credit to the school and the area, once again thank you.

http://www.hillcrest.dudley.sch.uk/content/school_report.html

Why the idea?

Why the idea, where did it come from?
The idea for The Semiotic Networks came several years ago when I was putting the Christmas lights up around our house!  I'm scared of heights and had this idea about a man falling from a ladder where he then ends up in a coma, while in a coma he wakes up in a parallel world?

How can this happen?
I've always wondered why they have the signs in hospitals about turning off your mobile phone?  Why?  What does the simple mobile phone do to hospital equipment?  Enter the idea about bluetooth affecting the life support machines, causing the patients to wake in a parallel world?

What happens in this parallel world?
The victims are alone and afraid each of them waking at the scene of their own accident to find everyone has disappeared.  They search for signs of life but the world is empty.....until they find The Semiotic Networks; a hidden channel on their TV set, here they can find other victims like them and communicate!

Is it safe in The Semiotic Networks?
Noooooooooo cue 'The Bald Men' they are people who have died in the world of the semiotic networks, forever trapped to hunt the living!  Very nasty people!

What should we do?
Next time you go to hospital switch off your mobile phone!