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Man vs Bookshelf: The Finish Line & The Bachman Books

This entry is part 64 of 64 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

This blog comes at a very inconvenient time.

See, I’ve taken a week off work to catch up on my blogging and to finish the latest draft of my book, and things have been going well.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: Thanks for Nothing

This entry is part 63 of 63 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

I’ve mentioned before how autobiographies often give you very little to say, and I’m going to mention it again now because, well, I’ve got very little to say.… Read the rest

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It’s easy, just click on the link below and tell us in what format you’d like to receive the book, and we’ll send it to you ahead of the novels official release on the 8th November.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: Cardio Sucks

This entry is part 62 of 62 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

There are a lot of reasons to buy a book, some sensible, some not so much.

One of them is because you emphatically agree with its title.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: More Word Count and Mother Tongue

This entry is part 61 of 61 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

It’s Sunday afternoon, a week after I finished one blog and started another.

In the first, I spoke about the word count of my upcoming novel – The Black Sheep’s Shadow and how it concerned me.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: Amazon Recommendations and Noughts and Crosses

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Last week, just before I started this blog, I was sitting in bed thinking about it. Wondering whether I could write two blogs in a row opening with a section about the word count of my latest novel.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: Word Count & The Good Guy

This entry is part 59 of 59 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

It feels as though my blog writing game has been well off recently.

Asked to guess, I would probably say I had not written more than one a week in the last five weeks, but this cannot be so.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: Stress and Soccernomics

This entry is part 57 of 58 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

I’ve been procrastinating again, but then, it’s been a stressful day.

A few months ago my girlfriend and I decided we wanted to move house.… Read the rest

Man vs Bookshelf: The Black Angel

This entry is part 56 of 57 in the series Man vs BookshelfSend to Kindle

The stress, will it ever end?

Two man vs bookshelf blogs ago I said I was no longer going to put time limits on when I wrote these blogs, and when I did my writing.… Read the rest