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Monthly Archives: May 2007
World famous in Myspace
Firstly, a huge thank you to Tom Chalmers from Legend Press for plugging this site and Lessons to Learn on their Myspace blog. And ah, yes, I also have a Myspace page. It’s not particularly decorative or indeed informative at this stage, but … Continue reading
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20 writing questions: Part III
Continued from Part II 11. What do you do when you get writer’s block? To tell the truth, on most occasions when I get writer’s block, I just don’t write. I guess that’s a luxury of still considering writing as … Continue reading
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Heading South, Luke Bitmead and Catherine Richards
It’s an early morning after a late night. I feel like I haven’t much slept at all. I’ll write this, and then I’ll need to make myself some coffee. I only really drink coffee when I’m tired. It was a … Continue reading
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20 writing questions: Part II
Continued from Part I 6. How do you come up with the perfect names for your characters? It’s usually a process of trial and error. I give a character a name, and then use it for a few paragraphs to … Continue reading
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In the online stores this week
While doing a bit of lunchtime title-Googling, I discovered that Lessons to Learn is already on the virtual shelves of Time Out Bookshop and Madras Café Books. Wasn’t expecting that just yet, but wow! There it is on a page of its … Continue reading
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Lessons to Learn goes Bookcrossing
I’ve been a member of the bookswapping website, Bookcrossing.com for the past three and a half years. Over that time, it’s introduced me to a whole lot of wonderful new books and authors which I may have not otherwise discovered. It’s … Continue reading
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It’s here
On Friday night, like every night last week, I came home from work hoping that Lessons to Learn had arrived. But there was nothing in our mail-flap. And, once I’d opened the door slowly, there was nothing on the foot of … Continue reading
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20 writing questions: Part I
It’s a long weekend here in the UK. More time for writing. More time to procrastinate by filling in online surveys while watching Doctor Who. Historical novelist, Faye L. Booth, tagged me yesterday to fill in twenty writing-related questions. Here’s my … Continue reading
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Arrival in Auckland
Two copies of the newly printed Lessons to Learn were put in the post on Monday (or maybe it was Tuesday in New Zealand). One to me in London. One to my parents in Auckland. Seeing as the mail across town … Continue reading
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The book is in the mail
I received an email from my publishers yesterday. It said that my book, Lessons to Learn, would be put in the post first thing in the morning. What a strange thought. What it is to consider that Lessons to Learn which for so … Continue reading
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