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Call Me Sweetie to the Popcorn Bush (Have I Lost the Plot?)

As I stepped off the kerb, the words and tune just popped into my head, after all it is a well known and popular song. Call me sweetie...

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Old Man Writes Another Book

As headlines go, it doesn’t exactly grab you does it? ‘Old Man Writes Another Book.’ That’s the problem with a second novel, how do you...

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Book Publication Day or Public Humiliation day?

A blog incorporating 50 book titles from the Cranthorpe Millner catalogue. Congratulations Publication Day has finally arrived. You have...

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Literary Agents, Rip Off Merchants & One Armed Bandits

Literary Agents! I doubt that anyone who has ever tried to publish a book has not come across literary agents. For those unfamiliar with...

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Is Big Brother Still Watching Me?

Is Big Brother still watching me, or am I paranoid? Why should I think Big Brother was ever watching me? Those really dedicated readers...

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The Cosy Book Club, or How I Became a Literary Pariah

There are no two ways about it. I am a pariah, a literary pariah. An outcast. For what sin have I been cast out? Well, I made a...

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The Unsavoury Business of Choosing a Book Title.

I have little doubt that the title of a book influences the decision to read or buy it, but how much time do we give consciously to...

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Character Assassination

When writing ‘The Death of a Smoker’ I was, more or less flying by the seat of my pants. The plot developed as I was writing rather than...

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A Book in all of us?

They say that we all have a book inside of us and perhaps that's true. We all have a life story but what is it that makes us get to work...