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Pitching Arctic Raoul
16 April 2026 12:32 amI sat down to try to write a 'pitch' for Arctic Raoul, only to discover after wasting an evening on some rather anaemic attempts that I had in fact already written a rather livelier version back in 2022!
My attempt at supplying the "putative extra paragraph at the end" to justify the length and acknowledge the fanfic aspect: "From the Phantom's Shadow" is a wide-ranging historical adventure of 125,000 words that takes its protagonists from the seas of the nineteenth-century Arctic and the lonely wilds of Scandinavia down to the south of France, and back up for a final confrontation, as they learn who they really are and what matters most. It's a story that seeks to bring a fresh twist to the classic themes of the original Phantom of the Opera while ultimately remaining true to its period and its overall message of redemption.
I spent some time in Waterstone's looking for appropriate 'comps' and couldn't find anything even vaguely similar before running out of time; ( Read more... )
In further slightly alarming news, I have been asked to supply copyrighted copies of my collection of poetry translations (which also involved trying to research the original authors of the lyrics in order to credit them) after an ex-associate of the Russian department at Cambridge saw one of them and was very impressed :-O
My attempt at supplying the "putative extra paragraph at the end" to justify the length and acknowledge the fanfic aspect: "From the Phantom's Shadow" is a wide-ranging historical adventure of 125,000 words that takes its protagonists from the seas of the nineteenth-century Arctic and the lonely wilds of Scandinavia down to the south of France, and back up for a final confrontation, as they learn who they really are and what matters most. It's a story that seeks to bring a fresh twist to the classic themes of the original Phantom of the Opera while ultimately remaining true to its period and its overall message of redemption.
I spent some time in Waterstone's looking for appropriate 'comps' and couldn't find anything even vaguely similar before running out of time; ( Read more... )
In further slightly alarming news, I have been asked to supply copyrighted copies of my collection of poetry translations (which also involved trying to research the original authors of the lyrics in order to credit them) after an ex-associate of the Russian department at Cambridge saw one of them and was very impressed :-O