One of the most popular characters so far in the Charlie Lupton books has been Sherpa Pemba, who appeared in Charlie Lupton’s Sherpa Adventure. A short story has now been written about Pemba. It is available for free on this website and is entitled Last Flight to Lukla. What is the significance of Lukla? It is a few days walk from Everest and it is the most dangerous airport in the world …
The draft for the next Charlie Lupton adventure has been written! It will be entitled Charlie Lupton and the Secret Satellite. More details to follow later … The publication date has not yet been finalised, but will be after Christmas early in the new year. Glyn Rand of GrandPortraits will once more be designing the front cover. His drawings have contributed so much to the success of the previous books. I can’t wait to see the latest cover.
A key decision which the author must make from the outset is what viewpoint or viewpoints to adopt. Is the story going to be being written from only one character’s perspective, or that of several characters? Or perhaps it will be written from no character’s perspective. Linked to this is the question of the ‘person’ in which the story will be written, such as the third or first person. To a certain extent this latter issue is to do with how a viewpoint is presented and is best addressed separately. In this blog we will deal with the viewpoint itself.
Jacques Cousteau is watching nervously on the bridge of his ship Calypso as it slowly makes it way through a maze of razor-sharp coral tow
Francis Chichester is sailing in Gipsy Moth IV in the pitch black of night towards the dreaded Cape Horn.