‘Your earliest memory’ project: please take part

This could be a web-wide project or experiment to document and record the earliest memories of anyone who takes part regardless of language, culture or creed. Curious?

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Film deal, Bush goes green and the rise of PC

A slight delay on the film deal meeting but I hear development monies have been put in place. I’ll be away from this blog for a week because I will be in Spain, in Almeria to be precise. I am assured the meeting will take place when I get back, possibly in Germany. So, there [...]

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Film deal – yes or no?

January 10th 2007: It’s my birthday so many happy returns to me. And the wings of fate have brought me a present. News that I may have a film deal, or at least a meeting to discuss a film deal (there’s a HUGE difference) has just arrived. Next week I am to meet some producers [...]

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Prophecy:

Look into SuperIching (http://www.superiching.com). I became transfixed by this different methodology of interpreting the I-Ching. It is quite remarkable and astonishingly accurate. The man who developed the system based on ancient Chinese wisdom is Alex Chiu – a Chinese/American living in San Francisco, I believe. He follows the movements of stocks and shares and [...]

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Science, religion and the alternative Holy Grail

Unlike the huge schism there appears to be between science and religion, I see no conflict between scientific discovery, metaphysics and religion. I explore these themes in my book ‘An Angel On My Shoulder’. There is a link to the synopsis and first chapter on my home page. What is that old aphorism? What is [...]

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Literary agents:

I have had a number of literary agents and when trying the backbreaking job of trying to interest them in my work was more than amused to find that literary agents appear to have developed an insider notoriety with websites devoted to discussions about honesty, dealmaking, performance tables. A good agent is worth their weight [...]

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Conspiracy theory:

I blow hot and cold about conspiracy theories and I would love to uncover one. There are hosts of websites purporting to reveal the most insidious conspiracies and one of these covert exercises in mind seduction appears to be the Bilderberger Society. This association, for want of a better word, takes its name from a [...]

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Travel writing:

PERU – THE TALE OF A SECRET VALLEY AND
THE CREDIT CARD AT THE BOTTOM OF LAKE TITICACA
by David Callinan
If you care to slip into a wet suit and dive to the bottom of icy Lake Titicaca, somewhere between the island of Taquile and the Peruvian mainland, you may discover the highest navigable, or should that [...]

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Face Lift – new novel

My new novel FACE LIFT has just been published by Ocean House Press. Now begins the painstaking business of promotion, promotion, promotion. My new home page is now up: http://www.davidcallinan.com. Meanwhile I am waiting for my next book BODYSWITCH to be proofed. In FACE LIFT I explore the power of beauty and its ability to [...]

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An Angel On My Shoulder

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER: Here is a dilemma. What would you do if, as a writer, you stumbled on a real life story experienced by another person that was so extraordinary, so potentially world changing, and had been instructed by ‘angels’ to be written? You would have to write it, wouldn’t you? And what if [...]

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