The books which have been produced and which are available from www.lulu.com are listed below The book descriptions are rather inadequate but will suffice for now The title of the post is from the book I refer to as my Opus Peculiar Somewhere I have lost a small story called PEA SOUP and it will be added if I can locate it The image is one of my favourite self portraits and was used for the first book on the list
Clicking on my name will take you to the LULU site
If It Had Not Been So Dark
Paperback, 40 Pages
Price: £2.15 (excl. VAT)
This is a small book to accompany a 19 track
Spoken Word CD of the same name This can be found at
Schizoid Traveller
Price: £10.00 (excl. VAT)
Sheila K Cameron (SKC) is
a writer and singer who is based in Glasgow Scotland and Vancouver Canada. The words she writes
fall into three main categories: those that become songs those that might
become songs and those that never will be songs The words in this book belong
in all three More information is available on the web sites at
www.sheilakcameron.com and www.glalell.com
The 35 Minus 4
Paperback, 42 Pages
Price: £5.00 (excl.
VAT)
The words in this small book were selected from an
accumulation of several hundred lyrics. All had, at some stage of their making,
had been given enough of a tune to be recorded onto cassette, reel to reel or
dat tape. A further selection reduced these to thirty five. An additional four
were removed and this provided the title for the book The words in the book
have also been recorded and are available on a spoken word CD
So Said the Sap
Paperback, 142 Pages
Price: £25.28 (excl.
VAT)
A selection of posts from a blog about the songs of
Sheila K Cameron and with images (in colour) from Glasgow Haida Gwaii and
In-between
The Inescapable Road
Price: £5.00 (excl.
VAT)
This is a collection of words in four sections. They are
entitled THE INESCAPABLE ROAD, THE ROAD TO SUNDRIE, THE BAY AND BEYOND and HEARTBREAKLAND and
THEREABOUTS.
So Said The Sap
Paperback, 62 Pages
Price: £5.00 (excl. VAT)
More lyric than poem. The subtitle is 'words
that might be songs' There are thirty examples
The Woman in the White Car
Paperback, 222 Pages
Price: £6.60 (excl. VAT)
Nathan Brown, a Seattle based scriptwriter
with a penchant for casual affairs, is in London attempting to recover
from a brief but upsetting relationship. During his stay he gets drawn into a
series of events which take him on a journey to find information about a man
called Paul Bloch. In the course of his search he travels to Glasgow, Vancouver and back to London discovering on the
way as much about himself as he does about Paul Bloch.
Toast Gets His Name
Paperback, 42 Pages
Price: £2.18 (excl. VAT)
A dog gets found and a teacher finds a friend
This is the story of how a puppy got his name. There are spaces in the book for
children to draw pictures - if they wish
One Foot On One Off
Paperback, 262 Pages
Price: £5.38 (excl. VAT)
Better not to describe the book as it is likely to put most readers off buying it
A Dummy Bird
Paperback, 46 Pages
Price: £3.00 (excl. VAT)
A short play about a married woman over forty years of age with materialistic tendencies and a yearning for some romance in an otherwise rather dull life: an equally ambivalent young man of about twenty eight years of age with a strong dependency on his mother and a neurotic affection for slightly painful experiences and an older man with a fondness for drink and a quiet life.
Making Custtad
Paperback, 159 Pages
Price: £5.20 (excl. VAT)
At its simplest Custtad is about providing individual
children with a dedicated room resourced with creative materials, for the
purpose of supporting them in the exploration of their ideas and concerns. A
trained worker is also present in the room. One of their roles is to help
create the conditions which may assist children in the task of addressing any
concerns they might have. A visit to the room might lead to the resolution of
those concerns but whatever the outcome, the child would be strategically
involved in the process
The Limited Aims of CUSTTAD
Paperback, 24 Pages
Price: £2.00 (excl. VAT)
In a structured and dedicated setting CUSTTAD combines the use of sand trays and a procedure called Talk and Draw to support children’s creative intentions and their efforts to make sense of what is happening in their lives The Limited Aims of CUSTTAD is an abbreviated version of a presentation which was originally made to an invited group of Head Teachers in Glasgow Scotland Any proceeds from the sale of this small book will go to the Custtad fund