What I’m reading: The Winter of Frankie Machine

Savages was the first Don Winlsow book I'd read, and it hooked me in a few pages. Violent, sexualized, powerful and chock-full of characters as three-dimensional as I'd ever read in crime fiction. I knew then that I'd want to read more -- which is when I bought The...

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Rip it up and start again

The sinking feeling hit me yesterday, as I was in my local coffee shop trying to make sense of my novel outline. A month ago, things seemed to be moving at a nice clip. I'd written about 12,000 words - seven or eight chapters - and outlined the rest of the book. I...

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