“What is wrong with those people?” I happened to be wandering by the Corral when I overheard the conversation between four of the old hands who’d just ridden in after a hard day in the fields. The one speaking was shaking head as he turned his red horse to face the other three, sitting sadly …
Month: June 2020
A Book Contest, Prizes and Reviews – Part Two
In my last blog I outlined the BookLife Prize for authors with unpublished/self-published books. If you need the criteria for the contest, it’s in my last blog, where I mentioned entering all three of my novels for evaluation: ‘The Odin Incident’, ‘Punto’ and ‘Punto and Me’ (all these novels have excerpts in earlier blogs if …
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A Book Contest, Prizes and Reviews – Part One
Some of you will no doubt have encountered Publishers’ Weekly (PW), a company that devotes itself to the book publishing industry. If you’re a collector of first edition modern literature, you may have checked out their list of ‘Best selling books in America’, or the ‘Best selling children’s books in America’ that tracks sales of …
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Dark Days in ‘Murica
‘Murica is currently embarked on the biggest educational campaign seen since the 1960’s. As it was back then, there’s real dedication to getting back to the basics with a focus on the three ‘R’s: Rioting, Rebellion & Revolution. There are masses of people taking evening classes that can last all night in the hopes that …
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