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Given the current state of publishing (see here and track back all the links to previous posts for the full picture) it's no wonder so many writers choose to ...

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Lit Bits November

Remember, remember ... lots of dates in November. The month is full of launches, events and news for readers and writers, published and yet-to-be published.Elizabeth Baines will read for Chorlton ...

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Do agents read submissions?

Rullsenburg blogs about this Guardian Story about someone who sent the opening pages of various Jane Austen novels to publishers and agents to see if submissions really do get read. ...

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The Girl in the Cafe

A DVD of The Girl in the Cafe - a film starring Bill Nighy and Kelly Macdonald - has been circulating blogland, in an attempt to bring it to a wider audience. You receive it, you watch it, you review ...

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Monday, 10 September 2007

Winged with Death

My new book is due from Flambard on the 13th March. Titled Winged with Death, it is based in Montevideo in the seventies and in the North of England in the present day. Winged ...

News | John Baker | Thursday, 5 March 2009

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The Winged with Death Virtual Tour Detai

These are the details of the virtual tour for my new novel, Winged with Death:The Winged with Death Virtual Tour 2009Stops Tour Date Blog 01 26th March The Inner Minx02 31st March This Writing Life03 2nd April Ken MacLeod04 ...

News | John Baker | Thursday, 5 March 2009

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March Lit Bits

Some really exciting launches and events coming up (again!) this month!Elizabeth Baines reads from her collection of short stories 'Balancing on the Edge of the World' at Huddersfield Literature Festival, ...

News | Debi Alper | Tuesday, 3 March 2009

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February Lit Bits

Phew! If January was a quiet month, then February more than makes up for it, with Bookarazzi members launching books left, right and ... well, here.Sally Hinchcliffe's psychological thriller Out ...

News | Debi Alper | Monday, 2 February 2009

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Ten Questions with Fiona Robyn

Fiona Robyn is a novelist who lives in rural Hampshire with her partner, cats and vegetable patch. She has too many blogs and spends too much time writing them. Her debut novel ...

News | Fiona Robyn | Saturday, 24 January 2009

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Trucking Hell

How I Broke Bath, and Other Stories was not so much written as thrown together. I'd been writing Livejournal posts for some years, and for some reason amassed a readership ...

News | Bowen T Hunter | Friday, 23 January 2009

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