Welcome to Electrica Somnia!
Why Electrica Somnia? Latin for Electric Dreams - but of course, you knew that. I enjoy a bit of sci-fi and the newsletter name is a nod to Philip K Dick (Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?)
I am an unpublished author of children’s and YA fiction. This newsletter is partly to document my journey to become published as an older writer in a genre that I feel has ‘lost’ its way and partly for me to share all the weird and wonderful stuff I come across and links to interesting and off-the-wall content.
What about me? Well, I was born in the UK to a White British father and a Burmese/Indian mother, but spent 22 years growing up in Hong Kong. I settled back in the UK just as Hong Kong was ceded back to China.
I have had many jobs from owning a bar to working as a social worker with teens with disabilities to being a Health Outreach Worker in the NHS with teens on the autistic spectrum. I have also variously been a school caretaker, a DJ, bartender, warehouse stocker, waiter, Rave organiser, office boy in a sports club, graphic designer and many more smaller jobs over the years. Now I own a business that provides after-school sports clubs and holiday clubs for primary-school aged children.
I have always wanted to be come a writer for children and I have written a few novels and younger children’s picture books - but I’ve never had the guts to try and publish them…until now.
So, why should you subscribe? - because you know you want to. Oh, and you’ll get access to an exciting newsletter and share my journey to becoming a famous children’s author - or my journey of ‘how I ended up on the slush pile - again!’ and ignominious despair. Either way, I’m sure you’ll find it entertaining.
Paid subscribers to Electrica Somnia usually hear from me once a week on Mondays - maybe more in the holidays.
Paid subscribers will receive exclusive chapters from forthcoming stories, along with weekly features like ‘I thought I knew that but I didn’t’, where I chat about being astounded by something I have recently discovered or I share my pièce de résistance, ‘Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People’ where I interview the common person on the street (or someone of interest that I’m connected to) and [insert fanfare] once I have mastered how to podcast - you’ll have that too!
You will also be privy to the trials and tribulations of how I go about trying to get published traditionally and via KDP on Amazon.
Paid Subscribers will also be the very first ones to hear about any new books, projects, or announcements that I’m working on.
Plus - You’ll get to see pictures of my two dogs, Echo and Koda and their never-ending mission to catch pesky squirrels, get recipes for my favourite cocktails, be subjected to my ‘record of the week’ where I chat about a song/album that someone has recommended.
Unpaid subscribers will still get a round-up of the juicy stuff every once in a while, too.
Paid subscriptions enable me to bring you better content and to focus on what I’m good at, telling stories for children.
Current subscriptions are £5 a month or £50 a year ( bargain!)
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Hang on…I’ve just read all the above. That’s a tall order to complete in a week! I guess if you subscribe I’ll be held accountable. Tally Ho, old bean!
Yours,
Simon JJ Green
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