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Crime Busters With Zimmer Frames
Phuket Life
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Literature
OK, so I admit to being easily amused, as well as famously pedantic. I enjoy imagining how veteran crime fiction authors must struggle to keep older, best-selling central characters active and virile enough to continue battering baddies when they are of a seniority associated with retirement homes. That it happens a lot might illustrate how frequently authors fail to envisage their central characters still dodging lead and slinging punches forty years after their crime fiction debuts.
So you want to write a book...
Phuket Life
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Literature
They say everyone has a book in them, and to add perspective to the claim, consider this: on Amazon alone, so-called independent authors account for almost four thousand new self-published books every day.
A crime fiction cracker worth sharing
Phuket Life
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Literature
Welcome to the first of my monthly columns on reading and writing books. My fascination for the written word stretches to a bygone century, when in the mid-1960s I made considerable use of local libraries while working my way through every international action/adventure title featuring the famous Captain James Bigglesworth.
