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E-book technology? Don’t make me go back!
When I published my first Kindle novel, some of my acquaintances bent over backwards to read it – even the self-confessed luddites. A few of them read it on laptop screens, even on smartphones. Yet a few were unrepentant. Their message was, “Sorry, I’d love to read your book, but I can’t stand e-books.” Ouch! Continue reading
How long should it take to write a novel?
When it comes to the time it takes to write a book, some authors are ponderously slow, yet others seem capable of performing at breakneck pace, producing a novel in as little as two months. How on earth do they do that? And what in fact is a reasonable time? Continue reading
The serial: killer formula or cop-out?
Are serial novels cop-outs, or do they represent just as legitimate and valid an art form as stand-alone novels? When I started writing novels, I vowed to myself that I would never write a series of books about the same characters. It seemed like an admission of defeat. I would only write stand-alone novels. Yet now I have. I’ll be launching my latest novel on my web site in the next few weeks, and it’s a follow-up to my first. Why?
Continue readingHow can you tell if a self-published book is a good book?
When is a self-published book a good book? At a glance, it’s often hard to tell. Many are wonderful, but others suffer blemishes (incorrect punctuation, bad formatting or poor writing). If only there were a quick way to distinguish the good ones. Continue reading
Posted in Discussion Leave a commentMany thanks for the plot idea, MT!
It was sobering to read in a ‘Motor Transport’ review of Alternative Outcome that ‘Peter Rowlands claims to have written for this very publication, but no one here remembers him.’ Sic transit gloria mundi! Well, I did. Continue reading
Starting as you mean to go on
Alternative Outcome starts with a chance meeting at the doors leading from the concourse at Euston station out to the forecourt. But what do those doors actually look like? For years I remembered hinged glass doors that you had to push or pull to open. But they’d changed!
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