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The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox

Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading

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Theoretical Reviews

Image: Lorne Thomson I don’t know about you but yesterday seemed to drag. It was ages before the morning was out of the way, and then when the sun came out for the afternoon it only made things worse. With … Continue reading

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The Promo Merry-Go-Round

Image: Hitchster When I typed the words, “I have a book coming out this week” in yesterday’s blog post, something happened inside me – I got my first blast of nerves. It’s gone away now that the promo merry-go-round has … Continue reading

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First Draft Of New Novella Complete

Let’s get the BIG news out of the way first – at 19:18 GMT I completed the first full draft of Greener is the Grass. I totally messed up the 40k word count estimate and was trying to match it … Continue reading

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