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	<title><![CDATA[Crime Busters With Zimmer Frames]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[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.

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	<link>https://www.thephuketnews.com/crime-busters-with-zimmer-frames-100293.php</link> 
	<pubDate>2026-05-23T13:00+07:00</pubDate> 
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		<title><![CDATA[Photo: Ron McMillan]]></title> 
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	<title><![CDATA[So you want to write a book...]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[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.

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	<link>https://www.thephuketnews.com/so-you-want-to-write-a-book-99835.php</link> 
	<pubDate>2026-04-12T12:00+07:00</pubDate> 
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		<title><![CDATA[Belinda Bauer has the crime fiction genre mastered. Photo: Belinda Bauer.]]></title> 
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	<title><![CDATA[A crime fiction cracker worth sharing]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[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.

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	<link>https://www.thephuketnews.com/a-crime-fiction-cracker-worth-sharing-99284.php</link> 
	<pubDate>2026-02-21T13:00+07:00</pubDate> 
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		<title><![CDATA[Ron McMillan. Photo: Supplied]]></title> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Getting to know the man behind the words]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Ron McMillan, an author now based in Chiang Mai, started out as a writer and photojournalist amidst the flying rocks and toxic teargas clouds of Seoul in the run-up to the 1988 Olympics. After covering the Seoul Games from opening to closing ceremonies, he shifted base to Hong Kong in time for the final decade of British colonial rule.

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	<link>https://www.thephuketnews.com/getting-to-know-the-man-behind-the-words-98822.php</link> 
	<pubDate>2026-01-10T13:00+07:00</pubDate> 
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