Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
Jan. 21, 2021
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Del Elle
Biography
Nice to meet you,
I started writing fiction in response to a winter scene in the audiobook of Little Women. That or the goings-on in Frog and Toad.
Londst is good starting point whilst Prince of the Apple Towns is the first book in the James and Jones series.
Both of the above and the first poetry collection - Dances, Towers, Hills & Skies - came into being due to a desire to have a break from writing what was becoming a grand fantasy epic (I'd been at it on a particular piece for years on and off and just had to get away from it).
The epic in question surfaced in the form of Selected Celeste and that title is probably half what was going to be the original book (just had to get it out there and when it was finally released it was as if a great weight had been lifted).
Twinned or tripleted to the fiction and poetry is the artwork that is in Characters, Weathermere, Constellar and also on delartelle.com. As for the music, well, its rare for the radio or a playlist not be in motion when I'm at work or rest in Liverpool (classical, jazz, trance; progressive house, electronic, gregorian chant or deep house - the last one is playing even as I re-edit this).
Best wishes,
Del Elle.
I started writing fiction in response to a winter scene in the audiobook of Little Women. That or the goings-on in Frog and Toad.
Londst is good starting point whilst Prince of the Apple Towns is the first book in the James and Jones series.
Both of the above and the first poetry collection - Dances, Towers, Hills & Skies - came into being due to a desire to have a break from writing what was becoming a grand fantasy epic (I'd been at it on a particular piece for years on and off and just had to get away from it).
The epic in question surfaced in the form of Selected Celeste and that title is probably half what was going to be the original book (just had to get it out there and when it was finally released it was as if a great weight had been lifted).
Twinned or tripleted to the fiction and poetry is the artwork that is in Characters, Weathermere, Constellar and also on delartelle.com. As for the music, well, its rare for the radio or a playlist not be in motion when I'm at work or rest in Liverpool (classical, jazz, trance; progressive house, electronic, gregorian chant or deep house - the last one is playing even as I re-edit this).
Best wishes,
Del Elle.
Where to find Del Elle online
Website: https://www.delartelle.com
Series
The Poetry Collections
by Del Elle
Dances, Towers, Hills & Skies
Places, Attempts & Inspirations
Views, Seasons and Lights
Views, thoughts and responses - as written by an imaginist.
When you put that epic aside:
Start the playlist;
And let the words flow...
Dances, Towers, Hills & Skies
Price:
Free!
Places, Attempts & Inspirations
Price:
Free!
Views, Seasons and Lights
Price:
$3.99 USD.
James and Jones
by Del Elle
Prince of the Apple Towns
The Overtesian Bird
The Miaow Choir
Appointments, items with trouble and nighttime challenges.
If only it was all in a day's work for James and Jones.
Prince of the Apple Towns
Price:
$2.99 USD.
The Overtesian Bird
Price:
$2.99 USD.
The Miaow Choir
Price:
$4.99 USD.
The Art Collections
by Del Elle
Themes, stories or collections of my artwork.
Inspired by calligraphy, crests, even the constellations.
Each piece with a little backstory...
Weathermere
Constellar
Books
Views, Seasons and Lights
by Del Elle
Series: The Poetry Collections.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 2,950.
Language:
English.
Published: March 8, 2021
.
Categories:
Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Places
When you get a little nudge to check that notebook and -
Find you've got the start of a new collection.
Words on parks, alleys, artwork and light.
Plus, more attempts at different poetry forms.
Some that sweetly surprised;
Others that were too much for my head on a late February evening (I like to let the words flow).
Views, Seasons and Lights.
The third book in the Poetry Collections.
The Miaow Choir
by Del Elle
Series: James and Jones.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 28,480.
Language:
English.
Published: March 5, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Would you take that step in the right direction?
Even if it means going to a park at midnight?
That's what Jo's faced with.
Instead of winding down for bed, he's tuning up before he, Jay and Suzé answer Io's challenge of going to the last place any of them want to visit.
A place with shadows, light, feline sirens...
and parakeets...
The third book in the James and Jones series.
Constellar
by Del Elle
Series: The Art Collections.
Price:
Free!
Words: 5,550.
Language:
English.
Published: February 6, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fairy tales
Third step
Third book.
There's just something about a set of three.
A collection from my artwork. Inspired by some of the star constellations.
Each with a story of their own to tell.
The third book of The Art Collections.
Selected Celeste
by Del Elle
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 20,700.
Language:
English.
Published: January 23, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Dreams, prizes and:
"Not again..."
Alicé has a dream, but it's going up in smoke:
Being the contestant in yet another game was not the prize Naritsune had in mind.
As for Virgo? She's not happy about being a less-than-twenty-four-hours patron for the umpteenth time:
"What's the point when They always win."
Another one of those days in Selected Celeste.
Places, Attempts & Inspirations
by Del Elle
Series: The Poetry Collections.
Price:
Free!
Words: 3,600.
Language:
English.
Published: January 23, 2021
.
Categories:
Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Places
When some of the poems demand their own book:
Make another one.
More responses and reflexes to sights, pieces and music. But also from stirring works of art.
Plus a journey into different poem forms and - of course - the poems who demanded a book of their own...
The second book in The Poetry Collections.
Dances, Towers, Hills & Skies
by Del Elle
Series: The Poetry Collections.
Price:
Free!
Words: 4,880.
Language:
English.
Published: January 23, 2021
.
Categories:
Poetry » U.K. Poetry, Poetry » Themes & motifs » Nature
I spent years avoiding poetry, and what happens?
Got me when I least expected it.
Born after seeing a tv programme:
Pushed by a need to escape from writing that epic.
Reflexes to landscapes, skyscapes and flowers:
Reflexes to music that stirs the beat.
Dances.
The first book in The Poetry Collections.
Weathermere
by Del Elle
Series: The Art Collections.
Price:
Free!
Words: 2,260.
Language:
English.
Published: January 22, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fairy tales
Second step
Second book.
In this series: one, two - maybe three.
Born from a whisper. Developed in a lost story.
The crests and realms of the fabled Swan Kingdom:
Weathermere.
The second book of The Art Collections.
Characters
by Del Elle
Series: The Art Collections.
Price:
Free!
Words: 1,520.
Language:
English.
Published: January 22, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fairy tales
First step
First book.
This or Apple Towns, not sure which.
One of the themes, stories or collections of my artwork.
Inspired by calligraphy.
Each piece with a little backstory...
The first book of The Art Collections.
The Overtesian Bird
by Del Elle
Series: James and Jones.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 8,180.
Language:
English.
Published: January 22, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
How you know it's been a long day:
When a door knocker says that it wants a password.
After a fruitless trip to his parents, Jo wants a quiet evening.
Not be psyching himself up for an appointment where and he and Jay are the unwilling patients and someone else is the inquisitive bird-like consultant.
It's usually the other way round...
The second book in the James & Jones series.
Prince of the Apple Towns
by Del Elle
Series: James and Jones.
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 8,880.
Language:
English.
Published: January 21, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Would you take your keepsake to a shop with half-baked signage?
Phillens does. He has an item he wants to deposit.
Not with a bank, but a consultancy complete with a surface-to-air train.
Only a keepsake for the vault is the last thing Jay and Jo want. That kind of heat could invite an apple town's worth of trouble...
The first book in the James & Jones series.
Londst
by Del Elle
Price:
Free!
Words: 3,970.
Language:
English.
Published: January 21, 2021
.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
Just a nice, quiet, early afternoon's walk.
Or it would be if a giant talking lemon wasn't coming down the road.
Herdgewick's a bit of an expert. Crime-fighting, maze-cracking, bird-spotting; he's on it. Only he might want to have brushed up on his tree species this morning. Getting them wrong is not a good idea in the not-so-quiet county of Londst...
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