This is my niece Jane in 2015. Here she is again, reading. When Jane is reading, she is in her own world. She is nine. She wants to be a writer. So I wrote to her early in 2016. Chelsea, … Continue reading
Miss Jane Fletcher, Writer
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Author Archives: Seymour
Apt 613 and Barb Collishaw review The Hippies Who Meant It
What does it mean that they “meant it”? I think it’s the idea of perseverance, despite hardships and social ostracism. Continue reading
The Hippies Who Meant It featured in The Low Down
Many thanks to Anastasia Philopoulos and The Low Down to Hull and Back. http://www.lowdownonline.com
A review of Britannia’s Spartan by Antoine Vanner
A glimpse into the most populous area of the world at a time when it was largely misunderstood or ignored by Europe and America. Continue reading
The Road to Self Publishing
The whole thing was strangely reminiscent of scoring a baggie of weed in those high and far off times about which The Hippies Who Meant It was written. Continue reading
Launching THE HIPPIES WHO MEANT IT
My latest book, The Hippies Who Meant It, is now available on Amazon Kindle. It’s about American and Canadian young people in the 60’s who dropped out and went back to the land armed with pluck and naïveté. It’s also a … Continue reading
My Music
My first musical experience was undoubtedly my mother singing to me. At the age of 68, on the ferry to the Isle of Skye, I found myself singing words and music I had never consciously learned. I put that down … Continue reading
My Facebook Page, October 8, 2015
Seymour Hamilton Somehow or another I’ve acquired 165+ Facebook friends. They include an ex-US Marine, a Baptist minister, at least two atheists, a variety of new-age/spiritualist/animists/Gaea-ists/ a couple of devout Anglicans (Episcopalians), a charming collection of science fiction/fantasy/comics nerds, persons … Continue reading
What keeps us writing
Most fiction writers are immeasurably chuffed when people write to us indicating that they have entered our imaginative world and been engaged by the characters they met there. This is the writer’s equivalent of applause, and is just as heady. Continue reading
Review of The Laughing Princess by Janoa Willsie on Apt613
Write On Ottawa: Dragon fables for all ages Written by Janoah Willsie on Saturday August 1st, 2015 An illustration by Shirley MacKenzie from The Laughing Princess. Seymour Hamilton writes the kind of children’s stories that he would have wanted to read as a child. … Continue reading