authors - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

A novel in 25 words

There’s still time (just) to enter Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition. Entries close on at 23.59 on[…]

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Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]

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Next year is the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus, and the twenty-first book in the series. With Rather[…]

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Do you really think publishers have authors’ best interests at heart? Most writers don’t make a lot of money. Forget[…]

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The problem — and the delight — of the English language is that there is no such thing as Standard[…]

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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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Easy reading is damned hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne …I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with.[…]

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A couple of weeks ago, Joe Konrath published a blog post entitled “The Path to Success”. It’s not a long[…]

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