Category: Self Publishing
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Everyone’s a Writer and an Artist now
Apart from the odd shopping list or doodle, there was a time when the content most people created was limited to school work or writing reports at work. When the Internet took hold a small proportion of people started keeping blogs or journals of their thoughts online. Then Facebook and Twitter and all the other […]
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Beats: Book 2 in the DI Frank Lee Trilogy
It’s probably a mistake but I’m the sort of person who likes to show the process as well as the finished product – so here are the first 5000 words or so of the very early draft of the second book in the trilogy of crime fiction stories featuring DI Frank Lee. The characters in […]
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a fat manuscript
With a bit of luck today will mostly be about beginning the final proofreading and possible minor edits of my ‘Bums’ manuscript . . . I’ve printed it out as a galley proof on one side of A4. This is so that there is plenty of free space to scribble comments and edits. I much […]
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a bit of a ramble about bums
Not those sorts of bums, I’ve told you before, you and your dirty mind. You and your associations and preconceptions, your preconditioning and your naive acceptance of the cultural hegemony. No, the sort of bums I’m talking about are the sort of people who live on the edges of ‘normal’ society – the homeless, the […]