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Meet ‘Big Mo’ Dolan by Nick Rippington
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
INTERVIEW WITH MAURICE ‘BIG MO’ DOLAN: PROTAGONIST OF NICK RIPPINGTON’S NEW NOVEL – WORKING TITLE: HEADERS Hi. I’m Paul Melluish, crime writer with London’s Evening Guardian. Currently I’m putting a book together about the most dangerous criminals of the 70s and 80s and was granted exclusive access to…
Farley’s Friday: Happy New Year
Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Farley Here, Happy 2017! ? Sometimes humans are silly. Look what mine made me wear, all because we were at a party. That was four years ago. This New Year’s Eve I didn’t have to wear a costume, but I still got to go to the party. Pretty cool that I…
Friday Quick Quote: T.H. White’s ‘The Once and Future King’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your…
Writing Week in Review: 12/31-1/6
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
Last week I mentioned that I had unexpectedly found myself with two partial works in progress to start off 2017. This left me with a bit of a conundrum: should I keep both as active drafts or set one aside until the other is finished? Though I am not a…
When a Writer Doesn’t Publish: ‘The Mountains of Parnassus’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
? Sometimes authors, even the most lauded of them, do not publish the books that they write. That doesn’t always mean that their words remain lost forever. Though Czesław Miłosz has been dead for over a decade now, Yale University Press has resurrected one of his long buried manuscripts. Czesław Miłosz…
Review: Kingston Raine and the Bank of Limbo by Jackson Lear
Originally posted on Happymeerkatreviews:
I was kindly sent a free digital copy of this book by the author Jackson Lear?for a review.? This is a funny fantasy story which continues the Kingston Raine series?of books, here is my review. When somebody is found murdered in Limbo, a place where everyone is already dead, Kingston Raine,…
The Desperation of a Public Library
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
These days public libraries operate on desperation as often as they run on anything else. This recently drove several library staff to do something a little reckless. Culling library collections often relies on numbers. If a patron checks out a book, that book is safe in the system. If a…
How to Keep Your Readers From Asking, “Why Didn’t They Just…?”
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by Stephanie O’Brien My siblings and I have sometimes joked that we could take over several fictional universes with the power of “Why didn’t they just…?” When characters fail to use an obvious solution, or forget a skill or superpower that could easily resolve the situation, it can be…
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