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Category: For Readers

A Short List of Short Novels

November 26, 2019 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]

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Free Books!

May 4, 2019 Geoff For Readers

A couple of my books have been selected by American author Mike Wells as part of his Mysteries & Thrillers[…]

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Harry Potter and the End of Chapter 3

July 27, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Publishing

Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]

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The danger of a single story

April 24, 2018 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

A fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]

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Hypnotist hypnotises himself

January 16, 2018 Geoff For Readers

Book review Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams (My rating: click here.) The[…]

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Famous Razors

October 22, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun, Quotes

Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

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The stages of a reader

May 25, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

Another delightful cartoon from Grant Snider:

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“A little lesbian joke …”

May 12, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]

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Advice from J K Rowling

April 20, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers

When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]

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Context is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible

March 10, 2017 Geoff For Readers, For Writers, Fun

I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]

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