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How to Write an Amazon Review

How to Write an Amazon Review

You’ve just read an amazing book, and you want to tell somebody about it. You could call a friend, of course, and I suggest you do. Word of mouth is the best marketing. But you could also write a review of the book on one of the sites that accepts reviews. This could include GoodReads, […]

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Why Add The Bad Stuff?

Why Add The Bad Stuff?

My second published novel, Here Casts No Shadow, explores a number of quite dark themes – war, death, revenge, mental illness and forced displacement. People sometimes ask me – why, when there’s so much sadness in the world, do you have to add to all the bad stuff? We have enough awful news thrown at […]

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How Agents and Editors Influence My Writing

How Agents and Editors Influence My Writing

Writing your first novel is a wonderful experience – the words flow out because you’ve been itching to write them, you know what you want to say, pretty much how you’re going to say it and if you get stuck, you can spend months unpicking the plot holes and re-writing the passages that don’t work. […]

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