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Feeding the villains
Hannibal Lecter aside, what do villains eat? I can’t remember seeing Darth Vader ingest a nourishing meal, or any meal for that matter, possibly because…
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Stop calling it chick-lit
Anyone who’s written a novel or attempted to write one knows it’s hard work. Think months and years of planning, thinking, writing and rewriting. After…
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Food stories
When a few years ago I came across ‘Blood on the table’, a collection of essays about food in crime fiction, I was amazed. Two of my favourite topics in…
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Nowhere Fox
The comings and goings of my muse
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The chaos of writing a novel
The workings of my writing process
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Will AI write my next book?
Thoughts on writing with artificial intelligence
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