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On the Vulgar Appetite for the “Fact”
I am asked, with a frequency I have come to find wearying, whether the events of my novels "really happened...
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The Tyranny of the “Relatable” Protagonist
There is a peculiar sickness that has crept into historical fiction...
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  1. RK Wallis

    Craft Chat Tool for Trending Genres

  2. Pamela Jo

    Craft Chat Fascinating talk w an author who switched genres

    Manda Scott was an award winning crime writer-up for an Edgar, when she was drawn to write something completely different.
  3. Katie-Ellen

    An Example of 'Up-Lit.'

    Someone recently subbed a MSS categorized as 'up-lit' on Pop-Ups, and this was a new one for a few of us, me included. This, via The Bookseller. An unagented former primary school teacher-turned academic Jane O’Connor has signed a world rights deal with Ebury Press for her “quirky, charming”...
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    Paperback Heroes

    Last night UK BBC 4 at 9 PM....'Paperback Heroes 'with Andrew Marr. What makes a paperback compulsive reading? Last night they looked at the detective story. Val McDermid was on to Jimmy Savile and put him in a novel...disguised by being handsome and charming or he might have recognised himself...
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