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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...