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Yesterday I had an e-mail from a reader who’d just finished the final volume of “Promises to Keep”. Her comments were warm and enthusiastic, and she’s making her enthusiasm tangible […]

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Lulu has done a deal with Amazon, which means that three of my books now appear in the Amazon marketplace. I was more chuffed by this than cool logic should […]

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Of all the editing techniques I’ve read of, stumbled across or worked out for myself over the years, the single most useful one is reading aloud; ideally to an interested […]

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The name is usually one of the first things we learn about a character. Like it or not, readers are inclined to react differently to a character called Chloe or […]

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The longest novel begins with a single word. That word is followed by another, and soon we have a whole sentence. Sentences grow into paragraphs, and after a mere few […]