May 2023...

I did mean to complete a post for April but that month somehow got away from me and it's now May, so that won't happen now will it!
I've found in recent months that my endeavours outside of creative work (mainly around village life) has been taking up a lot of my time with nothing to really show for it. This was causing me some stress and uncertainty in regard to the right direction to take. In the end I took certain decisions and stepped away from one thing, decided not to continue with another and both are (I think) the right decisions for me.
In creative news, I finally managed to get the digital version of my latest work ('Messages to No One') online as well as in print.

Should you wish to have a look at the digital version, you can find it here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Messages-No-One-Poetry-2022-ebook/dp/B0C4FXY3NN/ref=sr_1_3?crid=23LK406EKD35U&keywords=alan+mitchell&qid=1683995944&s=digital-text&sprefix=alan+mitchell%2Cdigital-text%2C228&sr=1-3

Or you can go to my Kindle Store page:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Mitchell/e/B01DL1FAQI/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

and have a look through everything that is on offer there, which just by chance includes the original version of 'The UnderTow SongBook'. This is a book of lyrics for our many songs since 2006, but not all of them. It doesn't have guitar tabs or accompanying music, and I'm not sure how we'd do this should we want to (there's not exactly a clamour for this at the moment), but I do have plans for the SongBook.

This original version will be replaced soon as I'm updating it and separating it into two different versions.

Why? Well, Keith and I are nearing 250 songs now (including songs written especially for our forthcoming EP 'Passing Moods' and double Prog CD 'discoveryONE' which has 24 on its own!).

Thus, my thought is to split the SongBook into two specific era's' 2006 (when we started) to 2013 (when we went into a hiatus as I was unwell). The second volume will see 2016 to the present and will grow and be revised as our output continues to increase.

My new collection of poetry is well under way now. The working title is 'In Quiet Tones' and while I've not set this in stone - and do not have a completed cover yet (a bit worrying as I'm normally pretty settled on one by this time of the year); it is unlikely to change as I am pretty comfortable with the sound of the collection title right now.

So, I have more work to do on 'discoveryONE' this month and really need to get back to working on 'Past Horrors'; a book of short stories I've had 'in the works' for several years but which I've not as yet completed. Odd really as I've written a whole new story for it and it's not seen the light of day yet!

I'll try an post something else soon but in the meantime, keep reading and stay well all!

​Alan