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The Reason Your Shampoo Wants You to Use More Shampoo is Because That Means You Will Buy More of Your Shampoo
An extract from my upcoming third novel, Everything Will Swallow You
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FINALLY!
At last the painful wait is over, and I can reveal Joe McLaren's brilliant cover design for my third novel.
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Ten Basic But Important Rules For Authors
Never expect anyone to read your book, even if you sent it to them for free.
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Lots Of People Will Unsubscribe As A Result Of This, Solely Because It's My Second Post In Consecutive Days, But The Fact Is My Cat Died And…
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What Will Life Really Be Like After The Internet Gets Incinerated?
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The Struggle To Leave The Footbath
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Things About The Countryside That Make Me Angry, And Some Photographs I Have Taken Of Them
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Remembering A Very Special Cat
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Why Don't We Read Like We Used To?
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Remembering A Very Special Cat (2001-2021)
Ralph
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Extracts From My Notebooks
You can listen to me reading this to you out loud here if you’d like to:
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My Crowdependency Problem
Here we see a very, very normal morning scene in rural Devon, UK: a writer gets up, makes himself a coffee and finds a crow in his living room, striking…
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Edwin Starr's Redemptive Jellyfish Journey And How It Helped Him Learn To Be A Person Again
The big mistake people who’ve never had writer’s block usually make in their assumptions about writer's block is thinking that it must be about having…
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The Hagstone
a new short story
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Can You Please Stop Telling Me To Live My Best Life Please
Thoughts On The Advice Pandemic
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France
Much has happened to me over this past week, but perhaps the place to begin is that last Thursday afternoon I saved a French kitten’s life by grabbing…
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The Villager
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