Recently I came across a very short manifesto named ‘crap art’ that was interesting and liberating. Regardless of what you think of my writing I always considered it crap art. Not that it was terrible or smelly but that it was fluff, the stuff of nonsense as meaning to anyone’s life as a gameshow. In a nutshell...
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With the presidential election looming I thought I would entertain my American friends with a little look inside the British political system. This is more a heritage thing but nonetheless still impacts every Brit today… Can you imagine working for a company that only has a little more than 635 employees, but has the following...
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The Black Mask and Sons of Spade are blogs that celebrate the fictional PI or Detective. It was my honor last week to be interviewed by Jochem Steen. Here’s the interview in full in case you missed it: Q: What makes Matt Spears different from other hardboiled detectives? One of the main things that makes him different is...
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Kindle Ball, Money KDP or KDP Ball … I can’t decide? I enjoyed the film Money Ball though and thought the concept was cool. If you don’t like Baseball, Brad Pitt or both, stay with me here, I’ll reveal all in a second. I’m English so Money Ball was something of a complex storyline for me to understand....
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There is an easy solution to the latest brouhaha surrounding the RJ Ellory ‘scandal’. I enjoyed the way Joe Konrath approached this subject and especially enjoyed the video he attached to the blog post. To read Joe’s version click here and if that’s just too much then I’ve included the video for your...
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Okay, so the results are in! I used August as my first ‘real’ KDP Select program. For those not initiated in the Kindle KDP Select program it basically boils down to giving your novels away for free for a short period of time. You do not get paid any royalties for these free downloads, so it doesn’t seem (at first...
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A friend of mine (Jewish kid) said “a worm in horseradish knows only horseradish” and although I had no fucking clue what he was talking about or the profundity of this Yiddish expression it soon became apparent. Wherever you are, that’s all there is! I added the exclamation point to emphasize. Period. The End. Full Stop. Are...
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Just came across a neat little website that I use to get the wheels moving. It’s a great tool. It’s rare that I don’t have something to write or need much motivating to write but every now and then I’ll hit a scene that I’m just not sure how to start. The overall theme of what I want to happen I might have mapped out in my...
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