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The Structure For A Short Story
There’s a lot of advice out there on how to structure a short story. I know because I’ve been out there and looked for it. Most of it is exactly the same and it’s the type of advice that you would get...
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Progress on Christmas Anthology
I aim to produce a Christmas Anthology of five short stories for next weekend. I’ve been busy all week and I am still going to be busy for the next week but I definitely think this is still achievable....
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The Christmas Number One
Work is still progressing on the Christmas Anthology. After feeling like death last weekend I have now regained my soul and pushed towards the finish line. I now have 5 days left, so is it still...
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The Christmas Number One Again
I’ve been totally obsessed with this Christmas book for the last two weeks. When I haven’t been writing, I’ve been thinking about writing. I was enjoying it and I’m now four stories down with one to...
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***The First Book Is Published***
… and breathe. At long last, finally, eventually, after some time, the first book out of the Holley stable is released. The Christmas Number One (and other Christmas Stories) is now available for...
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The Thrill Of The Amazon Charts
Beating Poirot I published my first book yesterday, The Christmas Number One, on Amazon and it has been a whirlwind existence since. I’ve been giving interviews across the media, accepting appearance...
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Keep On Keepin’ On
I was lucky enough last week to enjoy a whole week of holidaying at home. I live in a sleepy little town called Cowes, on the north tip of the Isle of Wight, where for most of the year three men and a...
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The Christmas Number One
Every Christmas, since I was 18, I’ve always read Charles Dickens’ Book of Christmas Stories about two weeks before the big day. It’s now become the trigger that lifts my Christmas spirit out of its...
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The 12 Days of Christmas
I’m busy writing my next novel at the moment and trying like hell to sell my other books at the same time, oh and I’m running two more businesses and somewhere in between all of this, I’m attempting...
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The 12 Days of Christmas – 1 Farter Christmas
The traffic had been shit. The snow had caused a lorry to slide diagonally across the road and to Barry it was just one more thing to go wrong. He would feel guilty later when he realises that he’d...
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