Real World Fiction
Passing the political parade for the holidays...
Dear Notes Reader,
When not reckoning on the passing political parade for these humble pages, your editor chooses to spend his days immersed in the equally unbelievable world of literary fiction.
It is our avocation.
We’re currently hard at work on our third novel – which, muses willing, should be done something in the first half of 2026. (Watch this space for details…)
In the meantime, we invite you to stuff your stockings with one (or both!) of our first couple of offerings, Morris, Alive and Night Drew Her Sable Cloak.
Our debut effort follows the eponymous Morris, a wanderer, a dreamer, a barroom philosopher and an incurable romantic. By the time he arrives in a trance at JFK International, on the eve of a new and dauntless century, he is also nine and a half thousand miles from his tiny coastal hometown on the other side of the planet.
Unmoored in a bold new country, which is hurtling through time at a blistering, maniacal pace, and set wide-eyed among its strange and wonderful citizens, Morris at first struggles to understand the ‘Idea of America’ and, by extension, his own place within it. A classic bildungsroman adventure story, with a coast-to-coast roadtrip to spirit you away over the holidays, it’s a perfect gift for the season.
Pick up a copy and have it delivered in time for Christmas, right here…
Our sophomore offering, Night Drew Her Sable Cloak, weaves together three distinct narratives, following three generations of heroines from the Midwest to the Far East, spanning the width and breadth of the entire 20th Century.
As the Spanish flu rages across North America and the Great War draws to a close over on the European continent, a young midwestern missionary stands at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, alone under heaven, and contemplates the impossible mission set before her...
At once a meditation on the nature of being and a celebration of the incomprehensible unlikeliness of life itself, Night Drew Her Sable Cloak is a novel that brings together eastern and western philosophies to propose a whole new way to look at the world around us.
Grab a copy and ensure delivery in time for Christmas, here…
Finally today, a big thanks to ALL our dear readers, whether in the real world of literary fiction or the unreal world of political folly, for supporting independent writing. We greatly appreciate it.
As always, stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World…
Cheers,
Joel Bowman
Author, Editor, Incurable Romantic