But… what is Fenton Hud?!?
I know the answer to this now! Wait… let me go back a bit and explain.
So back in 2019 I came up with the rough idea of Fenton Hud and how it’d be a book about made up ‘facts’. I also decided that I’d make it up as I went along with no clear plan for how an issue would end or what the overall story would be. Utter madness but I thought it would be a fun challenge and like with anything I do, once I have an idea I have to run with it.
So all good except when it came to trying to sell it and explain what the book was all about (while also not giving too much away as it’s all a bit twisty) it was dang near impossible! Like, it’s a shadowy government agency… um, kinda? It’s like X-files but with made up facts rather than aliens… oh, that sounds boring. It was born from a world that was obsessed with ‘fake news’… No! No! It’s not political! Honest!!!
As I said, a tough one. It sure would be handy knowing what I was writing about and although it took me three and a half books to get to that point I finally worked it out while coming up with pages 11 & 12!
At one time I thought of this book as a kind of love letter to lockdown and seeing London so quiet (which allowed me to take a load of photos which I then used in the book) but ‘love letter’ felt a bit off as it wasn’t exactly the best of times for a LOTTTTTTT of people.
But I now see that all along I’ve been doing this book to have a go at all thsee people out there that believe whatever they read without doing any investigation of their own. And even more so the people that also don’t believe facts that are actually legit. What’s that about?!?
(And there’s a LOTTTTTTT of those people too.)
So what’s Fenton Hud Member/Head of F.A.C.T.? It’s a dumb book full of fake truths and it’s up to you to believe it, laugh at it or maybe even wonder, hey, could that be true?
Now if you haven’t already and I’ve peaked your interest why not check out some preview pages by clicking on the link on the right hand side? And if you really like it why not pick up a copy? Please?
Oh, and that last sentence on page 12 about herd immunity? In a book where I said it’s all about fake truths? I did say ‘twisty’ earlier on didn’t I..?
Okay, more soon! Bear hugs!
