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  • Want help selling a book or film?

    13 Apr 2023

    HELP SELLING A BOOK OR FILM No book or film reviews today. This week I’m talking about pitching a book…

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  • Book Fuel fires up – Feb 25 – Mar 7

    19 Feb 2022

    BOOK FUEL Facing scarily rising fuel bills, my fellow Bloodhound thriller author Vikki Patis has come up with a tremendous…

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  • Oy veh! Jewface casting?

    17 Dec 2021

    JEWFACE CASTING There was a massive fuss this autumn when a major Hollywood movie came out. A white actor played…

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  • Hallucinations at the Oscars

    23 Apr 2021

    HALLUCINATIONS AT THE OSCARS Like staring into a fire, part of the fun of watching all the films submitted for…

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  • Is the rise of the topical novel killing literature?

    11 Dec 2020

    THE RISE OF THE TOPICAL NOVEL In 2010, I took my then agent for a Chinese lunch. I pitched an…

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  • Why most people are crap at persuading

    22 May 2020

    GETTING GOOD AT PERSUADING This message was intended solely for writers and film-makers, until I realised that pitching and persuading…

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  • Angry movies at the Baftas

    29 Jan 2020

    ANGRY MOVIES AT THE BAFTAS We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I…

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  • #IndieAuthorChat Nov 19 & book offer

    14 Nov 2019

    Book offer Christmas is coming and the first presents are on their way. First, I’m hosting a free Twitter chat…

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  • Do’s and don’ts of submitting to agents

    30 Oct 2019

    SUBMITTING TO AGENTS Crime writer Dominique Hall has written to me for advice on sending a novel to an agent.…

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  • The roller-coaster ride of publishing a novel

    04 Jul 2019

    THE ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF PUBLISHING A NOVEL It’s not often that a writer gets to blow his own trumpet, but…

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