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The Art Of Armed Robbery

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 10, 2009 | Comments Off

One of the golden rules of writing is to only ever write what know about. If you don’t know it, research it. Terry Smith, author of The Art Of Armed Robbery, a ‘phenomenal autobiography of one of the most daring armed robbers of his generation,’ knew his stuff when he penned his book in 2003.
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And The Winner Is….

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 19, 2009 | Comments Off

Well, of course it’s me:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/arabian-nights-story-winners.shtml

“The Babushka Strategy” won the Arabian Nights 1001 Word Short Story Contest.
My thanks go to the staff at Abebooks, for the rather superb boxed set that they sent me, and which have now found a home on my bookshelves. I would also like to thank my agent….oh, I don’t actually have [...]

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Stalingrad, and why writing a novel is like selling on eBay.

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 22, 2009 | Comments Off

A few days ago, shortly after I predicted – with considerable accuracy I should add – the death of Patrick McGoohan, my muse whispered something in my ear about the staggering similarities between authoring a book and offloading crap auctioning merchandise via eBay.
Instinct suggested that Sharon (my muse) was, perhaps, off on another planet that [...]

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