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How I write, and more importantly, how you can

Dom — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:37:23 +0000

So many people have been asking how I managed to write a book that I’m starting to wonder whether I should be feeling a little insulted. Yeah okay, so I produced something that someone, in a moment of either extraordinary generosity or extraordinary folly, decided to publish. But me succeeding in releasing a book isn’t, [...]

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Be careful what you wish for…

Dom — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:32:02 +0000

Okay, it’s time for me to eat some humble pie. Or perhaps humble Codral would be more appropriate. Because – oh, what fun I had last week with my jokey little piece on swine flu, and my little list about what I’d read if I was confined to my home with an illness. Oh how [...]

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The Joy of Marketing

Dom — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:30:19 +0000

Marketing is a bit of a dirty word for writers. We like to think of ourselves as releasing our work into the world like a precious, special patch of flowers that discerning readers will bend over and pick, sniffing gently and appreciating each petal’s delicate beauty. But that’s not how it works. It’s a struggle [...]

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Stockpiling books for swine flu

Dom — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:28:20 +0000

The world has been panicking. As if the climate crisis, economic crisis and Spice Girls reunion tour weren’t keeping us sufficiently terrified, we now have to deal with swine flu. Experts warn that it could become a global ‘pandemic’, a term which I find bizarre because it reminds me of ‘pancake’ and ‘panforte’, making the [...]

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Blogging cameo

Dom — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:12:17 +0000

I’m doing the Random House author blog this week. Really fun writing about writing, I’ve never done it before.

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