About the Author
(01) Westering (after a fashion):
[14 short stories and a novella] 1976/1978
My writing endeavors, in independent
but related volumes, constitute a comic Odyssey
- a Pilgrim's Progress, 20th/21st
Centuries style.
The central hero, an artist
documenting his life and age, although himself an occasional violator of all
the Commandments, never hesitates to wade into any situation should the safety,
dignity, or happiness of an animal, child, or innocent be involved.
Single, poor, and optimistic, in a
world still governed by Mammon, Mars, and Priapus, his story is ribald, noble,
and comic.
Young in spirit and incapable of
selling out as an artist or giving up on his quest, he pays the inevitable
price, and reaps the sweet rewards, of such a stand.
Ian Lauder (1945 - 20??)
President
Mud Valley Productions Inc.
(02) Skookum Gulch: [poetry] 1976/1980
Skookum Gulch, delightful though it was to execute, is the only volume of poetry I wrote; though I have, from time to time over the decades, birthed verses, weaving them into the tapestry of prose.
Ian Lauder: September 14, 2010
(03) Pettyville County:
[novel] 1980/1981
"Dear Ian,
It took some time for your greetings
from across the decades to reach me. I rarely go to the M&S office since my
retirement, and messages from there are relayed slowly.
I still regret that I and my
colleagues did not take a chance with your novel all those years ago, and I am
glad to see that you are carrying on undaunted with your writing career.
Good luck with the new books.
Doug"
March 29, 2010
Douglas Gibson
Ex-Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
(04)
Fugue: [novel] 1983
When I gave Sasha (the first third of Fugue)
to Doug (Douglas Gibson, Publisher, Macmillan of Canada, 1981) he said: "It's the
best manuscript to ever come across my desk." Followed by: "You'll never be
published in Canada."
Ian Lauder: July 15, 2011
(05) Gemini: [novel] 1983
Dubious about divination
paraphernalia, I used the I-Ching in this volume nonetheless. Why it worked so flawlessly is a mystery I don't comprehend - nor care to.
Ian Lauder: November 17, 2010
(06) Vignettes, Thoughts, and a
Classical Exit: [nonfiction] 1984/1985
This is my first nonfiction volume. I
suspect there'll be more. Lots more.
Ian Lauder: June 16, 1986
(07) - (20) Illustrated Children's
Books: 1985
In 1985, when I was forty, 14
illustrated children's books birthed themselves over a 4-month period. Seeing
them illustrated by two mega talents felt like Christmas.
Ian Lauder: March 19, 2012
(21)
Sailor: [novella] 1985
Many
will consider this my finest work - a unique jewel of human artistry, because
of its themes and execution; and because it's the only volume of Literature in which characters age with
a river.
Ian Lauder: May 21, 2011
(22) OYA: [151 B&W
cartoons] 1985/1991
I revere single-panel B&W cartoons -
consider them a form of high art.
Ian Lauder: August 5, 2012
(23)
Hollywood Gold (screenplay) 1 of 7:
1992
I love writing well-known-characters
screenplays and see no reason why this one
should die just because I had no one to knock on the golden door for me
back in 1992, when it could have been made into Star Trek VII.
Ian Lauder: August 25, 2011
(24) Hollywood
Gold [screenplays] 2 of 7: 1993/1994
Hollywood is the only
place I ever felt truly at home, even though I went broke there and never met
anyone of consequence career-wise. Hopefully I'll go back one day as an honored guest a
la J. K. Rowling - and much, much more. Time, and the tarot, will tell.
Ian Lauder: August 27, 2011
(25) Hollywood
Gold screenplays] 3 of 7: 1994
Attention Hollywood: There isn't a screenplay in your
hands that I can't polish or certify as flawless in twenty-four hours,
regardless of genre - other than musicals.
Ian Lauder: August 29, 2011
(26) Hollywood Sojourn (A Writer's
Perspective): [nonfiction] 1993/1994
It's been almost 18 years since I left
Hollywood, yet
I've never stopped wanting to return there - miss it still, even though it
bankrupted and ignored me utterly, other than inspiring me to write my brains
out throughout, in an overly expensive, cockroach assaulted hovel.
Ian Lauder: March 18, 2012
(27)
Hollywood Gold [screenplay] 4 of 7:
1994
It typically takes six months to a
year to write a screenplay. Of the six I've penned to date, the longest took
me twenty-two hours. Like all of my writings, they came unexpectedly, birthed
like an auditory river, my job being, at that point, merely stenographical.
Ian Lauder: August 29, 2011
(28) Thunder: [novella] 1994
Thunder birthed Elfindale. The child, truly, is father
to the man.
Ian Lauder: June 15, 2012
(29) Elfindale: [novel]
1994/1995
Elfindale, my only faerie genre novel, is 18 years old. With luck, it will be made into a 7 feature film franchise, and celebrated in both formats for centuries.
Ian Lauder: September 4, 2012
(30) There is no Dust in Buddhaland:
[nonfiction] 1995/1996
There
is no Dust in Buddhaland is the 3rd of 7 volumes of nonfiction I've written to-date. If the gods are kind there'll be several more.
Ian Lauder: December 4, 2012
(31)
Hollywood Gold [teleplays/screenplays] 5 of 7:
1992/1999
Making film adaptable, back-to-back
'teleplays' of two of my favorite TV shows was fun. Given the chance, I still
think they'd make excellent feature films, with or without the original casts.
Ian Lauder: August 30, 2011
(32) Petros & Valencia:
[novella] 2000
The masculine aspect of the human
psyche has been bullying the feminine, inadvertently or deliberately, since the
dawn of our race. Petros & Valencia
and Junior Mints, in fairytale
format, map what it takes to arrest this crippling tendency: the first focusing
on training the male psyche to honor the feminine as its equal; the second, how
the feminine must embrace the proactive even to survive, much less flourish, in
a masculine dominated species.
Ian Lauder: March 20, 2011
(33) Junior Mints: (see Petros & Valencia) [novella] 2001
(34) Back to the Boob:
[aphorisms] 2001
When I was twelve I encountered a
volume of Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's
Almanac and was struck by the power, beauty, humour, and condensed wisdom
of aphorisms.
To date, Back to the Boob, Another
Turn of the Wheel, and Enlightenment's
Anteroom are my contributions to that genre.
Ian Lauder: April 08, 2011
(35) Another Turn of the Wheel:
[aphorisms +] 2002
Taking Hollywood by storm, by bus, when one is 56
years old, is a long shot at best.
Read on, McDuff!
Ian Lauder: September 1, 2011
(36) Enlightenment's Anteroom:
[nonfiction] 2002
For cataractless perception, one must
live one's life, from cradle to grave, untainted by political, scientific,
social, and religious dogma.
Ian Lauder: November 15, 2010
To be a fully evolved person, the
feminine side of one's psyche, regardless of gender, must be intuitive, compassionate,
creative, and nurturing: and the masculine side of one's psyche must be
analytic, courageous, and patient - a spear in the service of humanity.
Ian Lauder: November 16, 2010
(37) Mud Valley:
[13 short stories] 2005
When a man turns 60 he casts a gimlet
eye on his life and the world: a gimlet eye hopefully a-twinkle with humour and
joie de vive, despite the grind of it
all.
Ian Lauder: August 08, 2011
(38) Unlikely Amigos: [novella]
2011
This volume of fiction, like my last
such a decade ago, came unexpectedly and inconveniently. Fortunately, like its
brethren, the delivery was facile, taking less than two weeks, at an hour or so
a day.
Ian Lauder: December 12, 2011
(39) Fire Lizards: [scripts]
2000/2012
Yesterday I was 16. Now I'm 66. How in the hell did that happen?!
Ian Lauder: March 10, 2012
(40) A Quest of Elves:
[illustrated Skookum Gulch faerie
genre poem] 1976/2012
For
the young, leaving home is easy - an adventure: for their parents experiencing that event it's a shocking: "Too soon!"
Ian Lauder: November 17, 2010
(41) The Quandary: [illustrated
Skookum Gulch faerie genre poem]
1976/2012
Doggerel is the poor relation of
Poetry, generally denigrated by bards and critics alike; but
it has its place, because humour is soul food.
Ian Lauder: November 17, 2010
(42) The Retirement of Good King
Theo: [illustrated Skookum Gulch
faerie genre poem] 1979/2012
Thirty-three years have passed since I wrote this poem. It's a pleasure to finally present it to the world, as an illustrated book.
Ian Lauder: January 12, 2013
(43) Gehenna: [quasi-fiction
novella] 2005/2012
Be kind, loving, and loyal to your clan, to the degree its individual members deserve.
Ian Lauder: May 18, 2011
(44) Veil Melt: [novella] 2013
Veil Melt, my 44th completed volume in just over 37 years, wrote itself in the previous two days; a very satisfying experience, considering I'm immersed in the business end of art at present, attempting to get the media's attention re the 42 in 42.
Ian Lauder: March 07, 2013
(45) Apatos: [novella] 2013
I never thought I'd write a sequel to any of my books, much less Unlikely Amigos. I couldn't be more surprised, or pleased.
Ian Lauder: April 11, 2013
(46) Nancy: [novella] 2013
After writing Apatos as a sequel to Unlikely Amigos, I knew a trilogy was in the works. Welcome to Nancy.
Ian Lauder: May 28, 2013
(47) Hollywood Gold [screenplay] 6 of 7: 1995/2015
I loved writing this screenplay: loved resurrecting my long-deceased, beloved Sasha, one last time. I also love the fact my one and only attempt to perform poetry at a Slam birthed this screenplay, and film, starring, I earnestly hope, yours truly.
Ian Lauder: October 17, 2015
(48) Hollywood Gold [screenplay] 7 of 7: 2015
Never say never ever. I never ever thought I'd write a horror film; in fact, I was sure I never, ever would.
Ian Lauder: October 17, 2015
(49) B&W [single-panel cartoons]: [nonfiction] 1991/2022
This volume was as fun to conceptualize caption-wise as it will be to draw.
Ian Lauder: October 18, 2015
(50) Marking Pen, Poster Paint, and Aerosol Art by Ian Lauder and the Kids of 118: 1988/2022
This volume is a stroll through the humor, eroticism, and philosophy of the adolescent psyche: a stroll that reveals they possess extraordinary range and depth.
Ian Lauder: October 18, 2015
(51) An 1 With Churchill (Volume 1 of 5): [nonfiction] 2002/2006
I've been penning An Evening With Churchill for thirteen years and counting because I vowed it'd not end until I wound up In the Bubble: In other words, rich. Hopefully four hefty volumes will do the trick.
Ian Lauder: October 17, 2015
(52) An Evening With Churchill (Volume 2 of 5): [nonfiction] 2007/2011
(53) An Evening With Churchill (Volume 3 of 5): [nonfiction] 2012/2016
(54) An Evening With Churchill (Volume 4 of 5): [nonfiction] 2017/2021
(55)
An Evening With Churchill (Volume 5 of 5): [nonfiction] 2022/?
(56-63)
Malvica PhotoGalleries: as coffee table books: 2000/2016
I began the Malvica books/PhotoGalleries in the Fall of my life and completed them in its Winter; which makes their beauty and themes all the more poignant to me.
Ian Lauder: October 15, 2015
(56) FlowerDance: [246 photographs] A floral celebration of the cycle of life.
(57) Tig's World: [528 photographs] The lives of 3 cats and a little dog dwelling together.
(58) MicroVistas: [479 photographs] Close-up photos that celebrate vistas.
(59) Lady Gold: [269 photographs] Mother Nature personified as a nude 'sculpture'.
(60) Amalgam: [314 photographs] A conglomeration of photos celebrating interesting images.
(61) Sextus: [303 photographs by Pamela Grier] A female perspective on life, to enrich the other Malvica PhotoGalleries volumes.
(62) Finale (a): [492 photographs] A potpourri of images.
(63) Finale (b): [492 photographs] Part 2 of the aforesaid, ending with a 'flower battle'.
(64) Swan Lake: [a volume of full-page, colour photographs celebrating a swan couple raising 3 broods of cygnets] 2000/2016
I enjoyed befriending Sam & Iris and their children and am happy to report they're all still alive and flourishing.
Ian Lauder: October 15, 2015
(65) Ian CanonFire PhotoGallery: [444, full-page, colour photographs] 2000/2016
I love photography!
Ian Lauder: October 15, 2015
(66) In the Bubble: [journal]
This volume will begin when I'm rich; ideally from the fruits of my artistic endeavors.
Ian Lauder: October 18, 2015