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74 posts of league tables and Wordle tales, from March 2023 to December 2024.
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Not really, but I will explain. Sales of The Puzzle have not been great and this was concerning. This is my first full novel since Rewind and Trouble Cross were placed on Amazon in 2012, although there has been Once Upon A Week in 2019. There has also been the split out of…
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I thought of writing a post Sunday, tried to write it yesterday and but couldn’t finish until today. It might be the chronic fatigue I was diagnosed with in November. Or it might be it was just Monday Horribilis yesterday. Monday’s are universally the worst day of the week, but…
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Julie Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins (1964). It would not happen today. Not for a Disney family film. Just as I am unlikely to watch today’s Oscar winning films, so too was I never going to write a Booker Prize or Nobel winning piece of literature. The best…
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My new book is out, and I should be over the moon but I’m not. I don’t have that euphoric feeling that I see with other writers on Twitter when they have a book coming out. Why is that?
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In January 2022 I wondered what all these green and yellow square boxes were that kept being posted on Twitter and so I discovered Wordle. I caught the bug like everyone else not least because I share my surname with the creator. After a couple of weeks, I was wondering if a…
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I finished writing ‘The Puzzle’ in May 2021 and have been trying to find an agent or publisher since. Fifty rejections – or in the majority of cases just silences – later and I entered it in the Readers’ Favorite 2023 Competition for an entry price of $119. The results were out…
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My holiday officially starts today, as yesterday was a Bank Holiday, and I don’t think I have ever dreaded two weeks off work more. Not that I want to be working but it is going to be just like a work week without the work. Not going away. No money. In the flat alone as usual.…
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The white flag from my last blog is still flying – well, probably lying limply on the flagpole really – although it might be a little larger now. Things are spiralling out of control.
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I have not posted a blog in some time – other than the Wordle League table – and this may not change any time soon. Since I hit the zero birthday in February everything has come to a stop, not that things were zooming along anyway.
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