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Review: Summer
Summer by Edith Wharton My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoyed this book. Whilst it was wordy in places, the prose was well written and the book moved along at a good pace. One thing to say, though written in 1917, this is a very modern book, both in language and theme, and any…
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Bunny O’Sullivan
Bunny O’Sullivan is a friendly rabbit who gets along with everyone. When a hawk sees him and his family chomping on Farmer Stubbins’s cabbages, will Bunny O’Sullivan be able to get everyone back to the safety of their burrow before the hawk decides it’s time for his lunch.
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Review: The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a book of two halves… I loved the start, got really into it, then it almost seemed like Bram Stoker got bored of it himself near the middle. The plot whittled away the further into the book you go,…
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Review: Hollowland
Hollowland by Amanda Hocking My rating: 4 of 5 stars A solid, teen novel. Silly and predictable, but a stonking good read… View all my reviews
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Review: Serial
Serial by Jack Kilborn My rating: 3 of 5 stars I liked this. The two initial parts created some interesting characters, but then sadly it ended just as it was getting rolling. This would make a good novel length story… View all my reviews
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Why Father Christmas didn’t bring a Kindle
I’d been very good in 2011. I tidied my room whenever I was told and always ate my greens without complaint, except for sprouts of course but that goes without saying. Father Christmas was very happy and said (s)he’d bring me something special: an e-book reader. Unfortunately, Father Christmas gets confused by anything more…
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About Blogging
Why blog? When I started writing, I decided I wanted to do it to the best of my ability. I bought the books and scoured the Internet, and over time, in my opinion, my writing improved. Obviously that’s a personal point of view, but for the sake of the hours I put into it, my…
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Competitions aren’t just about winning…
In the beginning It was a competition that encouraged me to to write. I’d always planned to ‘knock out a novel’ at some point in my life but there was always something with a higher priority and lower importance that seemed to get in the way (drinking, watching TV, etc.). As the saying goes, deadlines…
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I hate to say it, but first impressions ARE important…
Once upon a time I started writing fiction for public consumption just over a year ago. A colleague and I were strolling one lunchtime, joking about a futuristic concept of body recycling when she suggested, probably half-heartedly, that I should knock that into a story and submit it to the Bristol Short Story Prize. As I’m…
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Why would people pay to read my stories?
Last week I read a good discussion on somebody’s blog that basically said you should be pricing your fiction in bands based on the word count. He was saying something along the lines of 0.99c for every 10k to 20k words is a reasonable fee for his output. I really wished I’d kept the link…
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