I'm now getting into my stride with my new writing project. Well, it's not really a new one - as I've said before, I am returning to my earlier slim volume about the Biblical narratives How to Write a Gospel in order to expand and improve it and to further develop the approach which I …
Author: Robert Crompton
I've worked in the chemical industry and in town planning; I've been a barman and a parson. But at heart I am a story-teller and am currently at work on my third novel.
Returning to an old theme
I went to church the other day. Not, however, for a service of worship but to attend a meeting organised by the Friends of Mortimer Forest because I especially wanted to hear one of the guest speakers giving his presentation about those wonderful and elusive creatures, pine martens. More of that, however, elsewhere and on …
Planned Procrastination
Having spend just about all of my working time since Christmas focussed upon my Through the Transit Zone project, I am now free to turn to my next major piece of writing. But before that, just a couple of welcome distractions. Now that the warmer weather is hovering around I can get back into my …
Is this the end?
In the light of current events in Ukraine, following on from the covid pandemic, many former Jehovah's Witnesses will be starting to get jittery and wonder if perhaps the WT Society was right after all in their predictions about the end of the world and the Battle of Armageddon. Lots if folk will be wondering …
A new cover for Bunderlin
Bunderlin has a special place among the books I have written. It marked my return to fiction after a long time of thinking I had left that behind with my first published book “Counting the Days to Armageddon.” I had dabbled in fiction for many years before turning to academic non-fiction, and actually had four …
Setting my Agenda
I’m setting my agenda for the coming weeks and months, beginning with an update of my header image here. It now includes an image of my new novel, Shadows of Gilead, as well as a new cover pic for my earlier novel, Bunderlin. I will be focussing on these two in particular over the coming …
Shadows of Gilead…
...is coming out of the shadows within the next couple of weeks or so. It's in the publishing pipeline getting ready for printing and then for distribution to all the major online booksellers. Here's the blurb which will appear on the back cover: "Did young Vic Scanlon really see a girl held prisoner in a …
Coming soon – Shadows of Gilead
I am now well on the way towards finishing and publishing my new novel, Shadows of Gilead, which tells the story of three different defectors from a distinctly JW-like religious movement. It follows some dark passageways so will have to come with a trigger warning. Look out for an announcement later this month.
Reflections for Holy Week and Easter
It's Palm Sunday again already and time, maybe, for me to post something about my own take on the story of Jesus (or Yeshua). I find myself at times impatient in equal measure with uncritical believers who insist upon seeing history through the lens of theology, and with belief-debunkers who appear to have been schooled …
An alternative nativity story for the run-up to Christmas
This is an excerpt from "The Gospel of Eleazar," which is I included in my book, "How to Write a Gospel." When Herod was King of Judea there were wise men living in Jerusalem, sons of the People of the Scattering, and sons of the sons of families who had remained in Babylon to tend …
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Tales from the Snig's Foot 