The Chiz

As a writer with designs on ultimately taking over the world, I am always keen to give props to other writers who seem similarly inclined. Hence onto the subject of some new work that is available from Hagen Engler.

Hagen and I go all the way back to 1988 when we were in the same English class at Grey High in our matric year. I wouldn't say we were mates back then, but we knew each other. He surfed. I ran ( athletics that is!). He was cool I was a bit of a reject at Grey. We had a cracking English Teacher called Greg Cunningham (known universally as Sly Pig) who ran an ambitious experimental English class... he really shaped my love of literature that man, what an inspiration!

Later Hagen and I re-connected through Barney Simon to discover that we were both doing the same stuff promoting SA music, working as journalists, writing our own stuff as well.

Anyway, the man has self-published about 3 collections of his journalistic columns and two novels, and now his latest project is up and running. And here is the man to tell you about it in his own words:

New cyber book of fiction!
I’ve got a new collection of short stories out! It’s called Planetary Vehicles and it’s a web-only prose journey set on Johannesburg. Where Greener Grass was set in Port Elizabeth and Buttons For Gaia in Cape Town and Berlin, this is a series of interwoven vignettes set in Jozi, where I’ve lived for the past six years. Cunning readers will recognise them from a set of columns in Weekend Post. Here they’ve been imbued with hip new headlines, given a spit, a polish and a few extra swearwords and sent back out into the world in collected form.
To read Planetary Vehicles, click here (http://planetaryvehicles.blogspot.com)

You can read them in any order, but if you insist on starting at the beginning, that would be “Rock songs of love, guilt and healing” at the top of the January archive list. Visit me on Facebook here

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and tell me what you think.

Hagen Engler