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TONY AUFFRET
tonyauffret
Mar 256 min read
Trapped in the Real World. Why I Envy Fantasy/Horror Novelists.
Although recently I read a cracking set of horror/fantasy short stories (Chris Coppel, Last Light), horror/fantasy is not my usual fare. ...
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tonyauffret
Jan 73 min read
In Praise of Two Star Book Reviews
A couple of months ago, I found two new reviews of The Death of a Smoker; one on Amazon.co.uk and one on Amazon.com (US). The UK review...
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tonyauffret
Sep 22, 20234 min read
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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tonyauffret
May 31, 20239 min read
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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tonyauffret
May 4, 20233 min read
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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tonyauffret
Feb 24, 20237 min read
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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tonyauffret
Jan 12, 20234 min read
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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tonyauffret
Nov 15, 20227 min read
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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tonyauffret
Oct 8, 20224 min read
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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tonyauffret
Jul 27, 20222 min read
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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tonyauffret
Feb 18, 20221 min read
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...
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