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Looking for the Best Word? Tip #50

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Resign, Really, Dog…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

  Blood Red Dust is on the shelves. War Over Dust has just appeared as a Kindle, available from your local Amazon. The launch for that…

Story in Literary Fiction, by William H. Coles: #BookReview.

Subtitled ‘A Manual for Writers’, this is a scholarly work that attempts to analyse what makes a story ‘literary’ rather than ‘genre’ and advises on how…

A Taste of Village Life

    Monday; the weekend over, a new week starting. Here, in Lydbrook, we’d had a pretty busy few days and were missing our usual walks…

The Devil in the Belfry, by Edgar Allan Poe: #BookReview.

Until I read this short, I hadn’t realised how good Poe was at comic writing. This is a tongue-in-cheek dig at the horror genre that had…

Looking for the Best Word? Tip #49

    Offering help for writers and language learners, this series of posts is a resource for all word lovers. This week’s words: Fable, Assonance, sort…

The Solitude of Prime Numbers, by Paolo Giordano. #BookReview.

Translated from the original Italian, this melancholy novel captures the nuance and subtlety that can so strongly influence a young mind. The wrong thing said, the…

Creative #Writing #Contests Table Updated

The picture is a small version of a large image that’s one of almost 400 I have on a site called Picfair.com. It’s a place that…

Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.

At the moment, patiently awaiting the first view of the new book. While we wait, I thought I’d make a few comments about why I wrote…

Till They Dropped, by Sue Knight, Reviewed.

Fantasy? Science Fiction? Magical Realism? This book is all of these. But it’s also a thoughtful, imaginative, and ultimately terrifying cross genre piece that stirs both…