ELSPETH DUNCAN E-BOOK LAUNCH

Elspeth Duncan  launched the book ''Daisy Chain'' available to fans as a text-only e-book, in May 2010 at NALIS, Port-of-Spain.

Extracts were taken from the lives of six women in the book and read by Patti-Anne Ali, Vanessa Duncan, Carolyn Harnanan, Carol Hosein, Jameela Khan and Joanne Ali-Nandalal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In November 2006, multimedia artist Elspeth Duncan joined thousands of writers to take on the online international NaNoWriMo challenge (http://www.nanowrimo.org/) of writing at least 50,000 words in one month. Rather than allowing technical challenges (such as computer breakdown) to halt her progress, Duncan turned on full throttle and wrote over 50,000 words in a total of seven days spread within the month.

“The speed at which I was writing meant that I had no time to stop and think of what to write. It all just came out as is, in an unstoppable flow. Looking back at what was created, I would say that non-thought was to my advantage. I don't think I would/could have written what I did if I had been putting deliberate thought into it. It would have become what "I" wanted it to be as opposed to what it is meant to be,” Duncan writes on her blog, http://nowiswowtoo.blogspot.com

The resulting work, a stream of consciousness novel entitled Daisy Chain, features fifty-one women, each one linked to the other in a series of eclectic "snapshots" or "stories", each in their own style.  

Award-winning writer, Barbara Jenkins says of the novel: “If this book has a colour, it is yellow, like the sun, like the hearts of the daisies on the cover, like promises; if it has a mood, it is of longing, searching, of hopeful expectancy. The women here think, listen, wonder, seek, explore, embrace. Go at this smorgasbord at your own pace - savour each titbit as it is presented or gobble them up like I did, only to go back and sample again the ones that stuck and need some careful chewing over.”

Duncan ultimately plans to make Daisy Chain into an art-collectable coffee-table novel, featuring her photography as an illustration for her writing. 

In the lead-up to the launch, Duncan is sending out daily links of Daisy Chain to readers who have subscribed via email to her blog. These links, extracts from the novel, glimpses into the lives of some of the fifty-one women, give readers a tantalizing taste of the intriguing whole.

Elspeth Duncan Biography

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