Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. His novels cover a range of themes, including romance, neuro divergence, mental health, and finding interesting ways to fit in and overcome difficulties. He likes to contrast industrial and rural settings and move characters out of their comfort zones into unthought of contexts where new and intriguing things might happen. He writes for adult readers and uses gentle humour to explore his characters dilemmas. Apart from his novels, he has also made spoken work pieces for the Post Orientalist Community which are available on Bandcamp.
Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. His novels cover a range of themes, including romance, neuro divergence, mental health, and finding interesting ways to fit in and overcome difficulties. He likes to contrast industrial and rural settings and move characters out of their comfort zones into unthought of contexts where new and intriguing things might happen. He writes for adult readers and uses gentle humour to explore his...
Following an unfortunate incident 90 years earlier, life at Green Twining Farm seems terminally blighted. But, by the summer of 1985, Joe – the farmer’s son – has secretly fallen in love with David, his handsome work friend at the town hall. And Joe wonders if David feels the same way about him. Then – when Tim, Joe’s former musical friend,...
In this life it is important to tell our stories, not hide realities through fear, which anyway only perpetuates fear through silence. In ‘The House With The Round Window’ I have tried to tell my OCD story. I have done so by fictionalising it. I hope that by doing so I have made a metaphor which can be more useful than a nuts and...
In the 1980s, following decades of agricultural and the resulting cultural decline on the Lincolnshire Marsh, there was a sudden and unexpected springing of optimism. People opened odd businesses in remote houses far along marsh lanes. They were getting crafty, making strange objects from wood, taking moody photographs of collapsed...
London is full of echoes and shadows of the past. Sometimes this past was barbarically cruel towards those who were different. These poems are poems of remembering and healing.
I felt that there wasn't enough romance in my blurb, so I've added some! Here it is with added romance:
19-year-old Joe Coffin lives with his parents at Green Twining Farm, a place of bad memories and angry ghosts, which block Joe’s every move. His workmate at Scawthorpe Town Hall, David, to whom Joe feels romantically drawn, has a past which isn't what it seems, but if it became known to the wrong people could destroy what little standing in the town he still has.
Here is my alternative new blurb for Green Twining:
j4wzskox3h2u760b65i6scpsbr2e3.43 MB 19-year-old Joe Coffin lives at Green Twining Farm, a place of bad memories and angry ghosts, which block his every move. His workmate, David, at Scawthorpe Town Hall, has a past which isn't what it seems, but if it became known to the wrong people could destroy what little standing in the town he still has.
When an unpredictably odd friend of a friend comes to stay at the farm, bringing with him his own...
I've been writing the new novel for about a year now. It started out as a fairly simple romance but the more I 'discovered' about the characters, the more complex the narrative became. I suppose that's what happens when you have characters living with neurodivergence. You have to work out what comes from where and how characters with different divergencies interact and fail to interact.
I'm having a break from it now, and letting it all sink in. Meanwhile, I'm reading about trauma, and Queer...
