There Will Be Blood Promo Image
September 28, 2016
Not a cover reveal. . . . Release date is looking like 2017 now.
Category: Toten Herzen: Malandanti
Updates, extracts and musings about the second Toten Herzen novel, The Lost Valley.
The TotenUniverse
August 19, 2015
No one knows the true barycentre of the TotenUniverse. The band are only part of a wider growing European conspiracy. You can now explore further details of this conspiracy and Alien Noise Corporation’s future plans and releases. Click the image to see the TotenUniverse in detail. As universes go the image is quite large, and … More The TotenUniverse
Toten Herzen Malandanti Extract – Rose Pursey
July 5, 2015
It’s summer, the female solo artists are coming into bud and causing the usual huffing and puffing as they struggle to maintain their relevence. I thought it an appropriate time to unleash an extract from Toten Herzen Malandanti featuring their litigious US nemesis Rose Pursey. In Malandanti, Pursey is suing Dee Vancent for libel and … More Toten Herzen Malandanti Extract – Rose Pursey
Origins of the Malandanti – update
March 24, 2015
Who were (are) the Malandanti? I came across them when I was researching witchcraft for the second Toten Herzen novel. To understand the Malandanti you must first learn about the Benandanti. Benandanti means ‘good walkers’ (Benandante is the singular) and were a group of people from the Friuli region of northeastern Italy in the 16th … More Origins of the Malandanti – update
Totenseries book covers
December 23, 2014
Toten Herzen Malandanti
November 23, 2014
The second book of the Totenseries, following on from the turmoil of We Are Toten Herzen. Witchcraft, litigation, madness and a lesson in how not to record a new studio album. … More Toten Herzen Malandanti
The Author Hot Seat with Chris Harrison
July 31, 2014
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Chris Harrison is my last guest (appropriately enough) in this second round of The Author Hot Seat. On the face of it, Chris’s books sound…weird. Funnily enough though, I can immediately think of at least one person who would enjoy them. Are you listening Jane Risden? Read what Chris…
A lesson in music
June 22, 2014
Susan Bekker is the de facto leader of Toten Herzen. The others might disagree, but they all wait for her directions. In Malandanti she is learning to sing, but her ambition comes up against Russian composer and unwilling voice coach Dmitri Neved. Before the band came into the studio Susan was allowed one hour for … More A lesson in music
Reaction to a lawsuit
June 22, 2014
The trend for vampires in literature has been in stagnation for a while and shows no sign of revival, but vampires still have potential, so long as they avoid daylight and all the sparkly shit that goes with it. Toten Herzen are prone to a change of pesonality when events don’t go their way, such … More Reaction to a lawsuit
On borrowed time
June 22, 2014
In Malandanti Susan Bekker, lead guitarist, decides she wants to sing on the new album. This doesn’t go down too well with Dee Vincent, the lead singer. Throughout the novel the tension betwen guitarist and singer builds in classic Gillan/Blackmore style. Dee isn’t the first person you’d imagine having a crisis, but in this scene … More On borrowed time
Real or Hoax?
June 22, 2014
I’ve often been asked are Toten Herzen a real band. Well, the person to ask is Rob Wallet, the British music journalist who discovered Toten Herzen alive in 2013. But Wallet is a difficult customer to get hold of. We could ask Rene van Voors, the band’s drummer, but he’s just as likely to spin … More Real or Hoax?
A New Double Act
December 16, 2013
In The Lost Valley journalist Rob Wallet is still being asked to find Peter Miles, the alleged fifth band member who disappeared in 1973. Meanwhile Raven, still hoping Susan Bekker will turn her into a vampire, is growing more impatient by the day as her time on earth runs out (she’s nineteen). The pairing of … More A New Double Act
The Contrivance Conundrum
December 16, 2013
We all like a good story. Anyone who tells you the novel is all about writing is talking out of their earhole. It’s all about story. But even then you can go too far and you end up with contrivance. The process goes something like this: You have some people faced with a problem, I … More The Contrivance Conundrum
Origins of the Malandanti
November 26, 2013
Who were (are) the Malandanti? I came across them when I was researching witchcraft for the second Toten Herzen novel. To understand the Malandanti you must first learn about the Benandanti. Benandanti means ‘good walkers’ (Benandante is the singular) and were a group of people from the Friuli region of northeastern Italy in the 16th … More Origins of the Malandanti
The Witches Are Coming
November 23, 2013
Isn’t it typical? You think you’ve come up with a good idea and then someone beats you to it and gets all the kudos. For several months now I’ve been writing the second Toten Herzen novel and thought I had found an opportunity for a spin off series and then I read this article in … More The Witches Are Coming
The Opening Sentence 