One of my favourite authors was and to some extent, still is, Jack Higgins and I remember reading an article about him back in the day, I think it was around the mid eighties when he was in the height of his fame. The article stated that he had humble beginnings, which I could relate…
Tag: proof-reading
Forever and a day
On a recent trip to London I visited the Waterstones book store in Trafalgar Square where I picked up a copy of the new James Bond book, Forever and a day written by Anthony Horowitz. That sounds far grander than it was, we were on a city break on one of our allotted annual leave…
Reaching new heights as a writer
Practise makes perfect as they say and as many writers will attest, the more you write the better at it you get. When I first started writing and taking it seriously it was something I never considered, not consciously at least. What I mean by that is that I never wrote something and thought, ‘well…