Welcome to my place
I'm an Australian author with a history of publications in literary and film review, poetry, drama and short prose under imprints both within Australia and overseas.
My passion is travel, and my background is in teaching and, recently, as a lecturer at some prominent Australian universities. For this self-published e-book I've chosen to write under the pen-name DN Charles. Soon you'll understand why.
A major life change in 2003 was the impetus to set me firmly on the writing path with this, my first memoir novel. After Child Of The Moon's considerable e-Book success in 2006-8, it returned to Amazon and other e-Book outlets briefly in 2020.
However, it now exists only as a month-to-month Podcast - the release of each episode an unexpurgated reading of a chapter from the original diary, twenty years after it was written.
A hardcover book, complete with scans of the original diary and extra material, will be available after this Podcast series is completed in late 2024.
Child Of The Moon is a Serial Podcast!
To hear the events 'as they happened' you're advised to start at Chapter 1 (Sarah)
CHILD OF THE MOON Downloads
CHILD OF THE MOON Downloads
You may have been downloading CHILD OF THE MOON chapters as a way of slowly accumulating it as an audiobook.
However, as of March 22, all episodes so far have been re-mastered. I'm working with Audacity - a great starting point for any podcaster - and learning all the time. Apart from striking a balance throughout each episode in the area of pure audio quality and compression, etc, I'm also picking up more ability through the Audacity community.
Add to this the fact that the developers of this free program continue to refine it - with features and corrections - and each Child Of The Moon episode has evolved to be a better listening experience - not so 'hot', less vocal sibilance, etc, etc.
So, if you've got a bunch of them on your computer already, or just like to download them for later listening, may I recommend that you replace them with the new ones - they're on your favourite podcasting app (and Soundcloud) right now. I guarantee that they'll sound better! I promise that this won't be a frequent occurrence. Thanks for staying on board!
" ...may I recommend that you replace them with the new ones - they're on your favourite podcasting app right now..."
A very irregular upload
keeping track on writing,
self-publishing
and Podcasting
Child Of The Moon
and coping with
a writer's life,
an anonymous life
and... Life!
A man, a divorce, a beach shack, a different escort every month. Well, that was the plan...
Written moment-to-moment with the honesty of anonymity, Child Of The Moon explores
the deceptive gap between lust and love
and the secret link between skin and soul.
As such, it stands as a raw and rare insight into expensive sex and priceless spirituality.
'Wow! I became totally fixated by your writing. Don't really know what to say. Compelling, transfixing, original, beautiful, sad... '
WHAT READERS SAY
WHAT READERS SAY
Unsolicited feedback from Beta readers, interest groups and previous release e-Book buyers
'I think I fell in love with the writer in a sense.
I loved seeing how you saw these women, in your bed before you got lost in sexual pleasures, I loved the way you wrote a diary and ... threw in some lessons.I would like to thank you for this book, I will never forget what I read on the pages of my Kindle.'
'Beautifully written, with not a cliché in sight, it takes us to the heart of a man’s desperate struggle for survival after the traumatic end of a relationship.'
'...a profound inner journey into the approximation of wholeness...
'Thank you very much - you brought me lots of wonderful imagery and showed me a glimpse of life from a man's point of view, very honest and sincere...'
' ...has an Everyman quality that gave this female reader a little more insight into how it feels to be male in the modern world. Put Child of the Moon beside all the countless books on how women survive in similar circumstances and you might ... have two sides of the same coin.'
'You have also inspired me to start my long awaited own journal book!'
'Child is an introspective stream of consciousness; an atmospheric, though oddly calming, metaphor.'
"'Superb writing of the first magnitude.'
'I loved this book. Within the structure of what could easily be just a tacky sex romp ... it presents something full of depth.'