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Thursday, 19 November 2009

Writing the Breakout Novel - Review

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WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL Donald Maass, Writer’s Digest Books Donald Maass, the author, founded his literary agency in 1980 and since then ...
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009

A Fistful of Legends - progress report-02

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The book complete with cover is with the printer. A proof copy will be sent to me in the next week and after checking for any errors, it wil...
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Friday, 13 November 2009

Writing Guide-02 - Beginnings revisited

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Last time, I covered beginnings for short stories. They are crucial, because every word has to count in a short story. With a novel, while t...
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Remembrance Day short story

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Born of Joy ‘Sorrow is born of excessive joy’ – Chinese proverb Quite a few years ago our vicar wrote down on slips of paper the many names ...
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Monday, 9 November 2009

Book Review: DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL?

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DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL? by Horace ‘Jim’ Greasley Appropriately, I finished reading this book on Remembrance Sunday. Long after I...
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Friday, 9 October 2009

A Fistful of Legends - progress report-01

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The followup anthology to Where Legends Ride officially has a title: A FISTFUL OF LEGENDS. James Reasoner has done everyone proud with an ex...
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Saturday, 3 October 2009

The book of the film: Angels and Demons

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Though this was written before the million-bestseller The Da Vinci Code , and features the same hero, Robert Langdon, it was filmed after Da...
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Thursday, 1 October 2009

Writing Guide-02 - Beginnings

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Whether a short story or a novel, the beginning is very important. It's probably the most edited and changed aspect of any written work....
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Leon Cazador, private investigator in Spain

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I've just completed my 21st short story featuring this guy; it's a story I've been wanting to write for a couple of years but di...
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Sunday, 27 September 2009

Book of the Film: The Shawshank Redemption

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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of four novellas in the book Different Seasons by Stephen King, published in 1982. The film wa...
Sunday, 13 September 2009

Book review: Mission by Philip Spires

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MISSION, Philip Spires, Libros International, 428pp If you enjoyed Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet , I suspect that you’ll like this book too. ...
Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Book of the film: Zulu

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Well, sort of. The book is ZULU – WITH SOME GUTS BEHIND IT! By Sheldon Hall The subtitle of this book is ‘The making of the epic movie”, whi...
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