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creators out there happy creating andrew pender smith and craig carden posted on february 4 2026 february 4 2026 by green monkey publications posted in andrew pender smith craig carden tagged fantasy fantasy poetry horror publishing writing and publishing leave a comment happy new year happy new year to everyone from andrew pender smith craig carden and sebastian de vervet of green monkey publications may 2024 be a good year for all of you to all you creatives out there in particular happy creating may 2024 be a year of great creative success for you with lots of good wishes andrew pender smith image courtesy of new bing image creator posted on december 31 2023 by green monkey publications posted in andrew pender smith craig carden tagged andrew pender smith craig carden creativity happy new year reading writing 1 comment merry christmas and happy holidays if you are celebrating christmas andrew pender smith craig carden and sebastian de ververt of green monkey publications say merry christmas to you if you are not celebrating christmas we wish you happy holidays may you experience peace and happiness the images come courtesy of new bing image creator posted on december 24 2023 by green monkey publications posted in andrew pender smith craig carden tagged happy holidays literature merry christmas reading writing leave a comment green monkey going audio two green monkey publications titles have just been turned into audiobooks by apple ibooks using ai generated voices their titles are an absolute killing and will you come back they are both creepy horror stories in which nature does what is least expected with deadly results these chillers are by andrew pender smith two other books currently being worked on for audio are the warnings a horror story with strong elements of the supernatural set in zululand south africa by andrew pender smith and miss whoop whoop and the jumping pumpkin a mystery romp predominantly set in two highly outrageous nightclubs this fast paced story has lots of often comic twists bizarre turns and almost unimaginable leaps and is by craig carden all four titles are also in the process of being made available as audiobooks in several online libraries green monkey publications will let you know when they are all up and running here are the apple ibook links for an absolute killing and will you come back https books apple com us audiobook an absolute killing id1705924887 https books apple com us audiobook will you come back id1705921435 thank you to d2d draft2digital based in oklahoma and apple ibooks for making this possible happy listening andrew pender smith posted on october 17 2023 october 17 2023 by green monkey publications posted in andrew pender smith green monkey publications tagged andrew pender smith andrew pender smith audio books audio books green monkey publications horror stories leave a comment some of my favourite books there is more treasure in books than in all the pirate s loot on treasure island walt disney choosing a list of favourite books is seldom easy especially if you have read as many as me i put a list of my favourites together after a friend posted a list of books that resonated with him on his facebook page and he briefly explained why he chose them it got me thinking about some of the books i have read that have moved me in one way or another the space here is too small to go into reasons of why and how but i offer my list in case anyone would like to read some of the books on it i most sincerely hope they do and that they get as much satisfaction from them as i did the books are not in the order i read them some of them i read in my teens and two have been written by friends in more recent years as the stories and their authors came to me i wrote them down here is my list the god of small things by arunduthi roy falling leaves and mountain ashes by brenda george the poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver as i lay dying by william faulkner the yearling by marjorie kinnan rawlings wuthering heights by emily brontë wide sargasso sea by jean rhys mathilda by roald dahl seal morning by rowena farre the house of blue mangoes by david davidar the kite runner by khalid hussein the far pavilions by m m kaye follow the rabbit proof fence by doris pilkington garimara hear me by julia north ring of bright water by gavin maxwell the road by cormac mccarthy just after i posted my list on my own facebook page i suddenly remembered a book that had really moved me and it is the village by the sea by anita desai set initially in a small rural village in india it is a story of a struggle for survival in a poor community under threat by development this causes turmoil in the family and the issue is exacerbated by an alcoholic father and a bedridden mother in a home battling poverty looking for a way to better the lives of himself and his family young hari the only boy in the family sets out for bombay leaving his elder sister lila to care for the family which includes their sisters bela and kamal his youth and naïveté make it difficult for him to deal with life on the edge in the country s capital further turmoil follows until finally the tide turns for him and his family it is a moving story deftly told and though billed as a book for young adults i recommend it as a satisfying read for older readers too another book i also did not put on my initial list was roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d taylor but it definitely needed to be there this is the story of an african american family in racially segregated rural mississippi during the great depression in the 1930s life is tough but it becomes even tougher when the family faces increasing hostility from the town s white community especially when the family stands up to the town s bigots the story is told mainly by cassie a teenage girl with heart and spunk and it is her tenacity and that of her family especially her mother and her uncle hammer that helps the family finally win through mildred d taylor tells the story with unsparing honesty and it is all the better for it when writing the word honesty in the last sentence it got me thinking about what really involves me as a reader moves me and stays with me the answer is a story honestly told it is one in which the writer has not set out to impress or manipulate the reader but has let the story unfold as it has come to them sometimes if they are lucky it has entered their minds like a river flowing easily and they have the story down in one or two drafts most writers however need to work through numerous drafts carefully weighing up each word and phrase perhaps even coming at the story from different angles until everything fits into a readable whole whichever way the story has come to them if it has been written without artifice if it contains no more and no less than what needs to be there the story is likely to involve and transport the reader and it is even better if the story has more of the heart than the mind as well as being a writer i am also an editor and i have edited numerous books though i have not mentioned any here some of the best books i have worked on have been autobiographies and family histories meant only for friends and family perhaps it is because these writers have not set out to impress agents and editors of big publishers but that they have simply sat down and told of events as they happened relying on their own memories and those around them to help the story unfold and in so doing have given us a story honestly told an invitation if anyone would like to share the names of their favourite books i would love to hear from them they can either post them in the comments section or put up a list on their own site and then send me a link on a different note over the last two years i have mentioned that andrew pender smith and craig carden of green monkey publications are each working hard on a novel their titles are where people still dance and what the sun saw the dates of publication are now much closer book covers and publicity material are almost complete once all this is ready and a final edit of both manuscripts is done it will be time to launch where people still dance and what the sun saw acknowledgement the pictures of the cute mouse reading in a library were created with the help of microsoft s bing image creator to the creatives out there happy creating keep on journeying and you ll accomplish more than merely getting by good luck andrew pender smith posted on october 6 2023 october 17 2023 by green monkey publications posted in andrew pender smith reading writing and publishing tagged andrew pender smith books craig carden favourite reads green monkey publications publishing reading writing 2 comments of writing gardening and hope after years of work of living the story rather than merely writing it my family saga where people still dance is closer to being read by others originally where people still dance had the working title of where people once danced but the long and sometimes turbulent story of the craighall s turned out to have a happier ending than i thought it would and so where people still dance became the title whether the saga that involves four generations of the craighall family and moves from late victorian england to present day zululand south africa is as fully realised as it needs to be is a matter of which i am not entirely sure but i am confident that the craighall s those living and those no longer with us will let me know if i have left out anything that still needs to be told i am sure they will communicate if needs be my journey with them has been a fascinating and often an exhausting one at the same time craig carden s intimate love story what the sun saw which unravels in oman india and england looks as if it is nearly done it has its brilliant happy moments under the sun and the moon too but also its deeply sad ones has all that needs to be told been told craig carden is not entirely sure and merely says we shall see in between writing the garden gets attention as four of the photos show winter in kwazulu natal can still be colourful this large orchid seen here during the day and at night the poinsettia the crassula and the azalea are all flowering now the indian hawthorne and the amaryllis tend to flower in early summer in time may where people still dance and what the sun saw come to bloom just as brightly i live and work in hope to those of you who write and indeed all who create happy creating andrew pender smith and craig carden posted on july 20 2022 september 18 2022 by green monkey publications posted in creativity writing tagged andrew pender smith craig carden creativity literature reading writing 2 comments happy new year this is by way of saying happy new year to everyone and most especially to all those who visit or follow green monkey publications may it truly be a creation filled 2022 from andrew pender smith craig carden and sebastian de vervet of green monkey publications at least two new works one from andrew pender smith and the other from craig carden are due out this year we will let you know about them later in 2022 image credit igor kasalovic on unsplash free images posted on january 1 2022 january 1 2022 by green monkey publications posted in arts writing tagged andrew pender smith craig carden creativity literature performance sebastian de vervet writing leave a comment eyes fish writing and painting several paintings a book cover and a swirl of tropical fish dear reader over the years i have had many people ask me why fish appear so often in my poems short stories novellas and novels these include those written under my own name and the two books written under the pseudonym of craig carden a lot of my paintings and drawings include or wholly involve fish why the answer lies in my early childhood and involves something my mother did during a time when i was experiencing severe eye problems here is the story my fascination with fish often bordering on the fanatic began as a young child between the ages of three and a half and nine i had to undergo several operations to my eyes at the conclusion of each operation my eyes were heavily bandaged i could not see for about a week after my first operation and for two weeks after the second whenever the time came to remove the bandages i was always filled with a great deal of expectation finally i would be able to see again it was strange to be looked after in hospital by people who i learned to recognise by voice only as i lay in the dark i spent a lot of time imagining what they looked like following my second operation as was done after the first the bandages were removed in an almost dark room so that my eyes unused to the light for some time would not hurt the hospital room had blinds and they were slowly slowly opened to allow more and more light to filter in even though this was all gently done my eyes felt as if they were being stabbed the first thing i saw after the bandages were carefully removed and the blinds were close to half open was a bowl of colourful fish they were being held by my mother who had bought and then carried them into the hospital for me as i got used to looking into the light again and the pain began to subside i concentrated on the moving colours right in front of me red black orange blue silver gently moving in and around brilliant green water weed the bowl with the little fish stayed beside my bed until i was ready to be discharged about two days later they were two guppies and two red wagtail platies and they made the journey back with me from seaside durban to rural zululand a place of rolling green hills citrus trees and sugar cane the car was a station wagon and i lay in the back all the way home every hour we needed to pull over so that ointment could be administered to my eyes we also used this opportunity to check that the fish placed in a plastic bag for the journey were okay to this day i have never been without fish my mother had unknowingly begun a lifelong hobby today many many years later i have several tanks in my bedroom and the fish are the last things i see when i go to sleep and the first when i wake up to those of you who write and paint happy creating andrew pender smith posted on october 27 2020 by green monkey publications posted in publishing writing tagged books creativity painting poems poetry publishing writing leave a comment i wish i could this is the second poem in the current series of a children s poem placed in a picture teachers and students are free to use the poem if they would like to do so posted on february 13 2019 by green monkey publications posted in children s poetry writing tagged children s poetry creativity fantasy learning poetry writing leave a comment posts navigation older posts book covers follow me on twitter my tweets copyright protected 2016 2023 create a free website or blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed green monkey 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