Uncategorized - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Why Key is going now

Executive Summary 1: There’s a crash coming. Executive Summary 2: Poisoned chalice, anyone? Whatever you might think of John Key[…]

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Publish. A Lot: For those of you who have spent 10 years writing your last book I have news for[…]

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My father died seven years ago today. A few weeks ago, a friend recalled the eulogy I read out at[…]

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1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the[…]

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Hugh Howey, best-selling author of Wool and numerous other novels and novellas, admits to being a chump. For over 20[…]

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Here’s Neil Cross, talking about dialogue: … there isn’t much point in listening to what people say, because what people[…]

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If somebody asked you for tips on becoming a better writer, what’s the one thing you’d tell them? Show don’t[…]

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You can be implacable, disgusted, inert, nonchalant and gormless, so why can’t you be placable, gusted, ert, chalant and gorm?[…]

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I’ve just spent the last two days reading through the 80,000 word novel I wrote in six-and-half weeks last year.[…]

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INTERVIEWER How is your typical workday structured? MURAKAMI When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at[…]

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