TIP of the DAY
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Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. But when an extraordinary student enters his life, Gregory is offered one last, glorious chance to save his career. Soon, however, Gregory's Faustian pact with success unravels around him, and he must turn to darker, more duplicitous means to secure his fame. Set in the dangerous world where real life and literary ambition collide, Kill Your Darlings is an unforgettable novel of ego and delusion, villainy and the betrayal of love. -
The return of Margaret Cowper, a woman from medieval times, in the form of a beautiful and enigmatic young stranger changes everything in the East Anglian village of Burthorpe. Secrets emerge, affairs are uncovered, the illusion of rural peace is shattered. Is Margaret an angel of death or a harbinger of love? This darkly comic novel takes the ghost story into a new and distinctly contemporary territory. -
The death of Ollie Sincton seems at first an unpromising little murder. Who cares after all, about a fringe media character with a murky private life? But Sincton's literary bequest, a series of computer disks revealing how certain public figures had enjoyed his professional or personal attentions, changes all that. -
Jonathan Peter. Born 1939. Son of Major Colin Fixx VC (dec'd) and Mary Fixx. Educated: Melton Hall (expelled). Career: runner for the Kray family, pop manager, property speculator, intelligence operative, exporter of pharmaceutical and security tools, consultant, entrepreneur. Married: The Honourable Sarah Harcourt (divorced). One daughter, Jennifer, Interests: finance, the fair sex, getting things done. -
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site.
To some, he had been one of the great, underrated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence.
I have a story which is about to go out to publishers. What better moment to post my recent Endpaper piece for The Author magazine, providing a useful cut-out-and-paste guide for authors? * After a while, experienced professional authors learn the importance of the calendar. They learn that it is not so much which editor to approach with...
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