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Afterword
You may have been left a little breathless after reading the last words of If The Bed Falls In. This has been a relentless ride, and may well have been confusing at times. I am sorry for any pain caused, but I believe it is the necessary cost of a book that wants to do more than merely entertain.
In my opinion there are two writers of a novel. Firstly the author conceives of the story and spends months putting it down on paper. Then there are weeks of editing to make sure you are served the best version possible. The second writer (and just as creative and important as the author) is you. In your mind you imagine every detail; the look of each character, the tone of their voices and the smells and sounds of every scene. Without your creative input a novel is just ink on paper. Every fiction writer depends on the reader to transfer their ideas to the big screen of their minds.
The ending of a book is the biggest challenge for both writer and reader. If the story is to be perceived as ‘real’, every character must be left with a future; their existence must not end on the last page of the book.
And so it is with If The Bed Falls In. Joseph is left in mid-air finally understanding that Tom was the hallucination and he has made the greatest error of his life as he falls to a certain death. But rather than spoiling this literal cliff-hanger with a pedestrian wrapping up, you the reader are given your greatest challenge; to imagine what happens next.
I wish I could hear everyone’s mind as they read the last words. Hear your anguish, watch your imagination working things out, and see what you believe happens next as the characters career into their unwritten future.
It may please you to hear that if you want to know what my imagination has done with this troubled cast, book two of the series is available now. Furthermore, there is also a companion novella that fills in a lot of the background to the book you’ve just finished. If you are still feeling breathless, look at the following pages for details of the other books in the series and other novels by me.
All best wishes,
Paul
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Bedfellows Thriller Series
If The Bed Falls In
A psychological thriller that shines a spotlight on the shady dealings that may be the true reason so much is going wrong in our society.
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Guerrillas by Night
A companion novella to the Bedfellows series. It tells the story of Book One from a fascinating new perspective. It follows the backstory of a very enigmatic female character from the pages of If The Bed Falls In.
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As Mad as Hell
This second book in the series, takes us so much deeper as we follow a rogue MI6 agent using every resource he can to hunt down the culprits behind the New World Order. But he is a man battling with his own internal demons as well as the One Percenters.
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Other books by Paul Casselle
Conversations with Eric
Full of mystery, painfully funny situations and twisting plots, Simon picks his way through an ever thickening soup of intrigue and murder. At every turn, he tries to get out, but he continues to be sucked in by murderous villains and the psychologically damaged criminal class.
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Everyone Else’s Everyone Else (Short Story)
From morning to sundown, the machinations of London’s humanity ebb and flow, intermingling with each other in the way only we happily, insane humans can.
We all have our stories, but to a stranger on the street...who are we, and who are they?
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New World Order? No Way Out? (Non-Fiction)
Many of us are becoming aware of a growing global problem with national economies and terrorism, but some believe we are being led down this path by powerful people determined to destroy our free society in favour of their own greed. So, is this conspiracy nonsense?
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Blue Skies over Dark Days (An unreliable memoir)
These are true tales - well, mostly. In this first volume of autobiographical episodes, I have allowed a little artistic licence to hopefully turn some extraordinary events from my life into funny and often moving pieces.
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The Unforgiving Minute (A Sci-Fi Thriller)
Professor Edward Vivian Phillips, head of Physics at Trinity College, Cambridge has just invented the unthinkable! But celebrations are cut short when he is arrested for the murder of his research fellow, Alan Newton.
Phillips claims he didn't do it. That he couldn't have done it.
Professor Phillips was using his new invention at the time of Newton's murder. However, his claim means that he is either innocent or a madman!
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