Tuesday 16 January 2018
A SPRING AWAKENING BOOK LAUNCH
The book is to be published on Thursday, 18th January. But I have held off from selling my copies so far as it seems pretty recently that 'A Christmas Calling' was on everyone's lips (!). Even so, the day must come. So, friends, family, supporters, admirers and whoever else, please wait to get a signed copy from me, after I've done an actual book launch this time, which will be on Sunday 5th February at 11am at the church hall of St Peter's Church, Bushey Mill Lane Watford. The hall is right next door to my house which is 61 Westfield Ave WD24 7HF. There will be special refreshments, some presentation about the book, and massive signings and sellings with photographs. You know the drill. See you there.
Thursday 11 January 2018
EMAIL ANNOUNCEMENT OF 'A SPRING AWAKENING' FROM PUBLISHERS
TODAY I RECEIVED THE EMAIL BELOW FROM INSTANT APOSTLE PUBLISHERS #InAp SO I SENT IT TO 160 OF MY EMAIL CONTACTS!
You might like to have a look as well, as the story of David Sourbook and Angela Adams continues...
Dear Chris Cottee
Please see below for our latest release:
You might like to have a look as well, as the story of David Sourbook and Angela Adams continues...
Dear Chris Cottee
Please see below for our latest release:
Some people find the short days and darkness of winter difficult to cope with. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a recognised condition in which people experience depression, believed to be caused by a lack of exposure to sunlight.
There is another darkness, one which people often carry around inside them. We live in a society that is overrun with people’s personal darknesses, perhaps ones caused by a struggle to understand their own past.
Many need to know that if you have a guide to help you, there is hope, even in multiple and deep darknesses, like a literal journey through winter towards spring, towards a brighter day.
That theme is a very personal one for A Spring Awakening’s main character, David Sourbook, who, in Chris Cottee’s previous novel, A Christmas Calling, thought his problems were behind him. In this sequel, he suffers unhappy relationships and trouble even with the law and the church.
In order to reach a place of hope, akin to the glorious freshness of spring, he has to endure the emerging darknesses of his own past and soul. He encounters ones that are spiritual and psychological, of many kinds, darknesses that have to be exposed and faced, with the help of his close friend Angela, his church friends, a counsellor and God. But is David stumbling towards the light – or into the night?
‘Spring is such a hopeful time,’ writes Chris, ‘and the high glories of carefree summer beckon as hibernation ends. But once Christmas is over, to get to it, you have to go through the depths of winter – dark and bitter days; fearful, lonely nights. Some never make it. Maybe hope is a slippery thing, and a man as broken as David cannot be fixed in a week. Perhaps no person can.’
What reviewers say:
‘Anyone who knows Chris would agree that he is a great storyteller. He writes as he speaks! “A spring awakening” is a good read full of perceptive observations about what makes us human. The characters are developed in such a way that we see ourselves, our struggles and our hopes in them.’
Mike Pilavachi, Author and Senior Pastor, Soul Survivor Watford
‘A powerful, compelling tale of one man’s painful journey towards true faith portrayed with realism and insight wrapped in evocative and elegant prose. Eminently readable.’
Baroness Dorothy Thornhill MBE, Elected Mayor of Watford
Bio:
Chris Cottee is a vicar in Watford and previously studied clinical psychology. He has a passion for the outdoors, working with children, and writing poetry and fiction.
There is another darkness, one which people often carry around inside them. We live in a society that is overrun with people’s personal darknesses, perhaps ones caused by a struggle to understand their own past.
Many need to know that if you have a guide to help you, there is hope, even in multiple and deep darknesses, like a literal journey through winter towards spring, towards a brighter day.
That theme is a very personal one for A Spring Awakening’s main character, David Sourbook, who, in Chris Cottee’s previous novel, A Christmas Calling, thought his problems were behind him. In this sequel, he suffers unhappy relationships and trouble even with the law and the church.
In order to reach a place of hope, akin to the glorious freshness of spring, he has to endure the emerging darknesses of his own past and soul. He encounters ones that are spiritual and psychological, of many kinds, darknesses that have to be exposed and faced, with the help of his close friend Angela, his church friends, a counsellor and God. But is David stumbling towards the light – or into the night?
‘Spring is such a hopeful time,’ writes Chris, ‘and the high glories of carefree summer beckon as hibernation ends. But once Christmas is over, to get to it, you have to go through the depths of winter – dark and bitter days; fearful, lonely nights. Some never make it. Maybe hope is a slippery thing, and a man as broken as David cannot be fixed in a week. Perhaps no person can.’
What reviewers say:
‘Anyone who knows Chris would agree that he is a great storyteller. He writes as he speaks! “A spring awakening” is a good read full of perceptive observations about what makes us human. The characters are developed in such a way that we see ourselves, our struggles and our hopes in them.’
Mike Pilavachi, Author and Senior Pastor, Soul Survivor Watford
‘A powerful, compelling tale of one man’s painful journey towards true faith portrayed with realism and insight wrapped in evocative and elegant prose. Eminently readable.’
Baroness Dorothy Thornhill MBE, Elected Mayor of Watford
Bio:
Chris Cottee is a vicar in Watford and previously studied clinical psychology. He has a passion for the outdoors, working with children, and writing poetry and fiction.
A Spring Awakening by Chris Cottee ( ISBN: 9781909728790) is published by Instant Apostle and is available on 18th January 2018 from Christian bookshops, bookstores and online retailers. Fiction, 336pp, £8.99.
Friday 5 January 2018
A SPRING AWAKENING is here
What to say about it? For now, just this:
You can't live in Christmas forever. The gritty reality of life forces
its way in. Before you can get to the hopeful heights of Easter and spring, you
must traverse the dark and dreary wasteland of winter. It is a valley of many
shadows, one more famous than the rest.
And is distant hope real, or merely a mirage that turns to vapour as you
grasp for it?
Sometimes you don’t make it to Easter and spring the first time, and
have to start all over again.
David and Angela Sourbook set out upon exactly this journey. As it says near the start - 'Still, a journey that begins so well, how badly can it end?'
That's supposed to make you wonder ...
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