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I used to work and now I'm a writer. Lately I'm mostly interested in the early days of Hollywood through to the height of the studio system. It's a magic period and the seeds of its decline feature in my novel Watching Marilyn
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Average rating: 3.11 · 9 ratings · 5 reviews · 4 distinct works

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	Watching Marilyn really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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An eBook Rant

With a holiday coming up soon I decided to get serious about ebooks. It was time to get myself a proper reading device.
I pride myself on being an early ebook adopter having had the venerable Microsoft Reader application on my desktop computers since the days of Windows 95. But from the end of the month – August 2012 – Microsoft is retiring this almost forgotten product. It lasted 12 years, vener Read more of this blog post »

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message 1: by Simon

Jul 26, 2012 09:10PM

Thanks for looking me up, Jack.

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