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Robert Crouch (left) and Peter Rowlands. Writing books tends to be a solitary pursuit. You think thoughts, work out ideas, then sit down at a keyboard and convert them into prose. Maybe you dip in and out of online writers’ … Continue reading
Should journalists report news or create it?
The dilemma faced by journalist Mike Stanhope in Not Exactly True I remember listening in dismay to the TV correspondents who reported on the 2008 financial crash. Night after night, they would tell us in lugubrious tones how the contagion … Continue reading
Coronavirus – does anyone want to read about that?
Can a novel be crafted effectively round a major world crisis such as coronavirus while it the crisis still under way, and before the outcome is known? Continue reading
Voices from 1943
I’ve published a remarkable real-life diary on my web site – an account by two women in their mid-twenties of a Scottish cycling tour they did in 1943. Continue reading
The old normal – will it ever come back?
How long will it be before anyone can write a contemporary novel again without having to reflect the impact of the coronavirus? Continue reading
The challenge of getting noticed
How do self-published authors sell their books? Mike Stanhope thinks he has an answer, but in the new mystery thriller ‘The Concrete Ceiling’ it rebounds on him in ways he never expected, with alarming consequences. Continue reading
Book delay? Blame Brexit!
If you’re wondering what happened to The Concrete Ceiling, the next novel in the Mike Stanhope Mysteries series, blame Brexit! I’ve been so absorbed by what’s happening in the UK that everything else seems to have been neglected. But fear not – it’ll be out in March. Continue reading
Fixed in time?
Can a mystery novel work if it’s set against unresolved real-world events like the US presidential election or Britain’s tortured Brexit process? Never Going to Happen (released on Kindle in March 2018) aims to prove that it can. Continue reading
The heroism of the average man
Should we approve of everything done by the leading character in a novel? Should he or she be a “hero” in the traditional sense, or should such characters exhibit normal human flaws such as occasional bad judgement and indecision? Continue reading
Self-publishing, and making the right moves: what am I missing?
Self-publishing? Three or four years ago I knew nothing. Since then I feel I’ve made a lot of the right moves … but where are the books sales to prove it? I have good reviews and a steady trickle of sales and “reads”, but I still have a mountain to climb to achieve real visibility. Continue reading
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