This is my first book review with the copy received gratefully from the publisher and NetGalley. See Yesterday’s post to understand my change in stance on reviewing books. Cop Town by Karin Slaughter Random House UK, Cornerstone. ISBN 9781448107407 Atlanta, 1974: As a brutal murder and a furious manhunt rock the city’s police department, Kate Murphy […]
Reviewing Books – Do You Do This And Why?
If you have been reading my blog for a while you will know that I posted “reviews” about books that I had recently read, but I did it with the following precursor before the review. The Recently Read posts are not typical book reviews. As a writer, I do not believe I should be reviewing […]
Book Versus The Movie Adaptation
This will be a reasonably short post because I don’t have a vast amount of experience on the subject to write reams and reams of words on the subject and it’s a pretty subjective topic anyway. You are either one of those people who can watch a film after reading the book or you can […]
The 2014 Global Reading Challenge
I was made aware of this challenge last week on Jose Ignacio on The Game’s Afoot Blog and thought it was a great idea for a challenge, that even though we were already half way through the year I was going to give it a go anyway. What have I got to lose other than […]
Anatomy Of A Scene – From Film To Writing
As a writer, I feel I am always learning and hope that I will always continue to learn. I want to strive to be better. To make the words I write down, become something alive and real, an experience for the person that will read them. As I browsed YouTube at the weekend I came […]
What's Your First Draft Like? – Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson is in first draft seat today. Dan lives in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire (England) with his young daughter and his shabby dog, Skye. He is the Author of the charity poetry book Life is all but a vast array of Colours and phobia Novella The Caseworker’s Memoirs. His first full length novel, A YA Fantasy entitled The Black Petal will […]
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