What makes a great hook? What defines a hook in storytelling? A great hook isn’t just limited to crime or thriller novels, it is also carefully woven between stories of love, passion and human experience. Sometimes a book pulls us in just by its subject matter. I am most attracted to books which reveal human nature [...]
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The Authonomy Experience
In January 2010 my book,’ The Last Gift’ was featured on Authonomy, (a popular site designed by the major publishing house Harper Collins to flush out new and talented authors.) The strategy behind this site was to allow authors to feature chapters of their books on the site to be ‘read’ by members of the public and of course, other [...]
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Usually, I read a book and love it or hate, then I watch the film that is based on the book and usually hate it! So here’s something different… I watched ‘The Notebook’ based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, without having read the novel itself. I cannot therefore make comparisons which is probably a good thing, [...]
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The Bench is a short flash fiction story which I wrote a couple of weeks ago. Flash fiction is rather popular online these days as it consists of a minimum of 500 and a maximum of 1000 words. Flashfictiononline. com is a good site dedicated to stories of this nature! ————————————————————————- After sitting on the same [...]
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