2024-02-20 16:26
Have you ever been to a re-enactment of a battle? I love history but I am strongly anti-military and ant-war and violence and any kind of glorification of war. Still…I thought it woul… Read More
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My first published book is a collection of 22 short stories about misfortune characterized by unexpected final twists at the end of each tale. "With 'Flight of Destiny', I want the reader to squirm at the behavior of some undeniably despicable characters, be charmed by their wit under duress, and be totally drawn into the harrowing world of the oppressed, all while savoring these dark, surrealist stories," says Powell. "'Into this anthology, I have injected my vast accumulation of angst and blended in my warped sense of humor."
2023-12-18 14:33
A weekend with Hannah Cunningham Read More
2023-11-24 18:49
How often can you say that you have seen a show performed by
performers who are at the top of their craft?
Last February I was taking my usual jogging route up to my local train statio… Read More
2023-11-19 16:49
An unlikely person in in an unlikely setting creating a real special occasion.
I am lucky enough to live a town in France Moret-sur-Loing where there are memorable cultural events… Read More
2023-11-01 16:12
How was Halloween for you.
It seems to gain in importance, every year, here in France.
Halloween where we live began on Sunday, when a town
you most likely have never heard… Read More
2023-10-30 12:02
As quirky events go, an event I participated in a few weeks ago in Paris, organized by Paris Lit Up
was certainly right up there in terms of full blown quirkiness. It was a part of the gl… Read More
2023-09-05 13:43
The location was great, easy access to both Switzerland and Germany. The setting was nice, surrounded by a forest. The swimming pool was great. But all of this came with a price, the… Read More
2023-08-28 12:39
In small confined patch of land, close to the Seine an unusual festival, called Au Bon Coin Festival is taking place in Thomery. There is a strong theme, with people walking about in… Read More
2023-07-03 13:30
2023-06-22 15:11
Every 21st of June signifies something important, in France, the Fete de la musique. I have played a few events in the past. Every conceivable space become a possible music venue. I remember… Read More
2023-06-20 18:33
2023-06-19 18:48
2023-06-16 17:17
Read my interview with Laura’s books and blogs
Author Book Tag: Francis H. Powell Read More
2023-06-14 17:32
The fish King and the two wise, ghosts, by Francis H. Powell.
BlurbTwo fish tales in one!
The Fish King is lonely and wishes he has a wife to keep him company. So when his chance o… Read More
2023-06-13 16:49
https://tealeavesandbookleaves.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-fish-king-and-two-wise-ghosts-by.html?sc=1686673478513#c6284384375742155290
The Fish King and the Two Wise Ghosts Read More
2023-06-11 16:00
Guest Post: Francis H Powell ~ The Fish King and the Two Wise Ghosts (bi-lingual Engl/Germ) Read More
2023-06-09 09:53
I was pleasantly surprised to find out I has received a five star review, from the readers favorite competition.
To read the full review you can click
https://readersfavorite.co… Read More
2023-06-09 09:42
Read an authors interview I did with Book Shelf Café news
Below is the link
Author Interview: Francis H Powell Read More
2023-06-06 18:57
My Review:-I decided to read this book, as my granddaughter Emily seen the cover and said it looked fun and it was. We found it a good read for Emily to read on her own without any help… Read More
2023-05-31 14:38
Read an interview and take part in a Giveaway.
Click the link below, read a book review, interview and take part in a giveaway.
https://thereadingfrenzy.blogspot.com/2023/05/givea… Read More
2023-05-27 12:25
Author Interview – Francis H Powell Read More
2023-05-15 10:54
Have you ever seen Shakespeare performed in a different language other than English? How do other countries interpret and portray Shakespeare?
Will the world ever tire of Willia… Read More
2023-05-13 08:23
https://whenangelsfly.net/2023/05/12/the-fish-king-and-the-two-wise-ghosts/
To read an interview with me on my latest children book, click the above link Please welcome Francis H Powell to… Read More
2023-05-13 08:20
When Angels Fly
Please welcome Francis H Powell to my blog. Hello Frank. Shall we have sit and have a chat?
Please introduce yourself to those reading this blog post.
Hello… Read More
2023-05-12 14:40
Waking Writer
Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre?
I like the work of Roald Dahl. He wrote for both adults and children and I decided to do the same.
W… Read More
2023-04-17 19:59
My book will be published on the 26th of April by Blossom Spring Publishing Read More
2023-03-21 15:59
The proof copy of the cover
Having had three books published aimed at an older audience, I am happy to announce my first children’s book will be published
on the 26t… Read More
2023-03-07 09:39
I hope you enjoy this visit to an unusual place
Francis H Powell author
Most people go to museums to see beautiful gilded objects or paintings. Perhaps they go to admire the work o… Read More
2023-03-07 09:38
Most people go to museums to see beautiful gilded objects or paintings. Perhaps they go to admire the work of craftsman or fine sculptures. They don’t normally have to descend a 13… Read More
2023-01-15 20:20
We were discussing taking our son to a circus, one without animals. I was under the impression we were going to the Cirque du Soleil, however there was some crossed wires and we ended up… Read More
2021-11-22 10:14
2019 will forever be remembered as the year the world stood still – most of us were at home, locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic, but key workers were still out there prote… Read More
2021-10-25 14:23
Buy your copy of Together Behind Four Walls
from Goldcrest Books. Click the link below
Together Behind Four Walls
You don’t need a paypal account, simply send your email add… Read More
2021-10-25 13:34
Buy a copy of Together Behind Four Walls, simply click the link below. You don’t have to have a paypal account, simply email the publisher, and you will receive an email to send yo… Read More
2021-10-25 13:24
My Thoughts…..Together Behind Four Walls is a collection of short stories, poems and images by writers, artists and poets who decided to express their feelings about left during t… Read More
2021-10-25 12:35
A book review of Together Behind Four WallsThe book costs £11.99and can be posted in the UK, as well as Europe.Buy your copy by clicking the link belowYou don’t need a paypal acc… Read More
2021-10-21 16:10
2021-09-28 15:57
Ray Clark contributed a short story called Ranger Man to Together Behind Four Walls
Tell everybody a little about yourself.In a nutshell, I am an award winning Yorkshire born auth… Read More
2021-09-28 13:47
Chat About Books
Looking for a good read whilst also supporting a very worth charity? Together Behind Four Walls Compiled by Francis H Powell With the sudden arrival of Covid 19 and the… Read More
2021-09-20 09:12
Very happy to be included in Marie Lavender’s new release feature.
click the link below to read the article
https://writinginthemodernage.weebly.com/blog-posts/new-release-featu… Read More
2021-09-17 19:08
https://www.facebook.com/togetherbehindfourwalls
https://www.instagram.com/togetherbehindfourwall/?hl=en
Together Behind Four Walls
Compiled by Francis H Powell
With the sudden… Read More
2021-09-17 09:00
Here is a short video about Together Behind Four Walls
Together Behind Four Walls is available through Goldcrest Books
Together Behind Four Walls
You can support and follow us… Read More
2021-09-07 11:18
It took over a year and a half to finally get this book published. It is not easy to get a book published and there were set backs, so it is great news it is finally out.
Together Behin… Read More
2021-08-27 09:44
A book cover is so important.
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor. –… Read More
2021-08-26 14:29
People without papers, perhaps without hope
As everybody knows a terrible situation has developed in Afghanistan. Perhaps things could get much worse.
People are trapped in this coun… Read More
2021-08-24 15:27
with the proof copy On a cold grey March morning, I was with my son, in the play park where he regularly plays, when all of a sudden some council workers began cordoning off the play park. H… Read More
2021-08-24 12:26
Everybody has their own thoughts about what it was like in lockdown.
Some didn’t believe there should be a lockdown at all.
Some had a hard time in Lockdown, as it weighed on the… Read More
2021-08-23 13:45
Land and Sea
Posted on
Categories anthology, poetry, poems, short stories
Land and Sea is a theme in Together Behind Four Walls an anthology aiming to raise money for Marie Curie N… Read More
2021-08-23 13:13
Loneliness and emptiness is a theme in Together Behind Four Walls
There were many stories in the news during lockdown of people suffering from loneliness. People who had to self isolate f… Read More
2021-08-13 09:30
Time in lockdown is a theme in Together Behind Four Walls.
Contributors include
Jonny Sly, Ciara MacLaverty,Francis H Powell, Josiane Vincent,Crysse Morrison, Marcus Christopherson,Ian… Read More
2021-08-13 09:12
Funny stuff in Lockdown is a theme in Together Behind Four Walls.
Lockdown was a hard time for everyone, however humour was a tool we could use to get through it.
Contributors includ… Read More
2021-08-13 08:32
Hope and despair is a theme in Together Behind Four Walls.
Contributors include
Lynda Scott Araya, Chris White, JosianeVincent, Hélène Argo, Tiffany Apan, FrancisH Powe… Read More
2021-08-12 19:27
illustration Olga SolabarrietaContributors include
Leela Soma, Francis H Powell,Suki Spangles, Neil Zetter,Bernard Young
Love in Lockdown took different forms.
There were thos… Read More
2021-08-12 19:09
Illustration by Olga Solabarrieta
Children in Lockdown is one of the themes in Together Behind Four Walls
Contributors include
Christine De Luca, Francis H Powell… Read More
2021-08-12 13:33
One of the themes of Together Behind Four Walls is “Deep Thoughts” It is poems with a “philosophical” nature.
Contributors
By the Poet, Bruno de Oliveira, Ba… Read More
2021-08-11 10:48
image courtesy Marie Curie NursesThe first theme in Together Behind Four Walls is “Caring and Kindness”
It includes work by
Roger Robinson, John Hegley, ArthurSmith, Franc… Read More
2021-08-05 15:55
Less than a month until Together Behind Four Walls is published. It will be published by Goldcrest books
Home
The publishing date is the 3rd September.
All profits from the book… Read More
2021-06-02 14:41
Together Behind Four Walls
is an anthology with a mixture and well known
and lesser known contributors, writers, poets and illustrators
who have kindly submitted their work so… Read More
2021-06-02 13:50
I have been working for over a year on an anthology called Together Behind Four Walls. I am lucky enough to have some great contributors.
It will be published soon in aid of Marie Curie… Read More
2020-07-28 10:49
What is your perception of poetry? Maybe to some people it is this stuffy closeted medium in which deep thinkers put together meaningful words in rigid styles. Maybe to some, this is off-p… Read More
2020-06-13 13:25
Read an interview with poet Carmina Masoliverpoet interview
kickstarter Read More
2020-06-13 13:08
Please support our kickstarter campaign to raise money for our book. Your support will enable us to get the book printed as well as promoted and if the book is a success, it will raise money… Read More
2020-04-05 20:32
If you want to participate, you only need to write a paragraph, and it is part of project for a good cause
https://francishpowellauthor.weebly.com/anthology-for-coronavirus.html… Read More
2020-04-02 12:43
via Authors and Poets,please write something during this period of isolation, for coronavirus Read More
2020-04-02 12:36
Hello, I am pooling together with writers and poets, artists, comic creators to put together a book, I suppose at the moment it would have to be an E book…with poems… Read More
2020-03-10 19:34
bloodlust and fairy dust
Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation
by Francis H. Powell
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Scifi Short Stories
What if the human race was considered… Read More
2020-03-10 19:32
via Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation Book Tour w/ Exclusive Excerpts & a Giveaway! Read More
2020-03-09 17:59
via Adventures of Death, Reincarnation, and Annihilation Book Tour & Giveaway!! Read More
2020-02-29 18:12
via Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation – Book Tour and Giveaway Read More
2020-02-29 18:11
The Book Dragon
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2020-02-28 21:06
Guest Post and Giveaway: Francis H. Powell on his latest release
Add to Goodreads
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By some freaky coincidence, a theme that runs through… Read More
2020-02-24 18:58
READ A SPOTLIGHT FRANCIS H POWELL
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. I’ve asked a bunch of my author friends to answer a set of interview questions, and to share their latest work… Read More
2020-02-24 18:42
READ MY INTERVIEW WITH ESTER RABBIT
Born in 1961, in Reading, England Francis H Powell attended Art Schools, receiving a degree in painting and an MA in printmaking. In 1995, Powell moved to… Read More
2020-02-23 10:13
Francis H Powell author
Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation
by Francis H. Powell
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Scifi Short Stories
What if the human race was considered irr… Read More
2020-02-23 09:02
Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation
by Francis H. Powell
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Scifi Short Stories
What if the human race was considered irrelevant and then each being… Read More
2020-02-22 06:34
Author Interview with Francis H Powell
Happy Friday, Bibliophiles!
I am excited to share with you today an interview that I had with Francis H. Powell, author of Adventures of Death, Reinca… Read More
2020-02-21 06:46
My book tour has begun
visit
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2020-02-21 06:32
Why don’t you begin by sharing a little about yourself.
I am approaching 60 years old, I am married with a seven year old son and I live in Brittany.
Could you tell us a bit about you… Read More
2020-02-13 20:49
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2020-02-13 20:46
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2020-02-13 20:45
via my interview with trick or treat thrillers Read More
2020-02-13 20:44
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2020-02-13 20:39
My interview with Book goodies Read More
2020-01-14 19:02
Thanks a lot Nina Soden
Nina Soden
I love days when I get to support other authors and showcase some of their work. Today is one of those days. I’d like to welcome Francis H. Powel… Read More
2020-01-14 18:58
via Author Interview ~ Francis H. Powell Read More
2020-01-10 19:00
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2019-12-30 21:27
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2019-12-21 17:28
via Here is my interview with Francis H Powell Read More
2019-12-20 17:34
Adventures of Death, Reincarnation and Annihilation
By Francis H. Powell
What if the human race was considered irrelevant and then each being was just uploaded then locked away on hard driv… Read More
2017-01-29 18:49
Having been unable to go to the cinema for a painfully long time, a rare opportunity presented itself.
The title of the film does not suggest too much, but the story that lies w… Read More
2016-11-02 20:04
The darkness surrounds you
Walking down and an endless corridor
Should you turn round
What will you see
A mind that cuts right through you
A hand that tickles you with claws
Like those of a… Read More
2016-11-02 06:44
One of my short stories in my book Flight of Destiny is called “The pact” it is about a desperate man, whose wife is dying, who is forced into making a pact with th… Read More
2016-11-01 20:21
Creepy clowns come out of the shadows,
Licking our faces with razor sharp tongues,
Hide all the children, get them out of the way,
The clowns are out to get them,
as night turns from… Read More
2016-11-01 17:33
They are at it again…nowhere is exempt, the most recent attack a formal dinner at the hallowed ground of Cambridge University, a creepy clown equipped with a machete. May… Read More
2016-11-01 11:42
Clowns: Our Fascination and Our Fear
By Tiffany Apan
Throughout the ages, many creatures have served as a fascination for our imaginations while terrifying us in the process. Vampires, were… Read More
2016-10-31 18:36
You sent me a poisoned cake for my birthday
laced with shards of glass,
the colour of black bile
when I swallowed it whole
you laughed
and you laughed
and you laughed
You danced like a jit… Read More
2016-10-31 18:21
I asked authors concerning their feelings about the phenomenon of “creepy lowns”
Cheryllynn Dyess replied…
It’s not long at all… but this is my experie… Read More
2016-10-31 17:49
I asked authors concerning their feelings about the phenomenon of “creepy clowns”
Gina Marks replied
I have no real childhood memories of clowns good or bad. I don’t… Read More
2016-10-31 17:18
When children tuck in to their Halloween candies, they might get more than they bargain for. Ronald O’Bryan had his own distorted vision of Halloween when he laced Trick or treat swe… Read More
2016-10-30 20:34
Some people will have you believe babies born between midnight and 1 A. M. have the power to see ghosts. So does the seventh child of the seventh child. Further superstitions include  &hellip…Read More
2016-10-22 12:24
Ever had that terrible feeling that somebody is following you? Perhaps you have caught a late night train and while you are walking home, the streets are deserted. Suddenly you … Read More
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