Category: Blog
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How do you do that? Creating names for characters
Recently I was asked how I dream up names for my characters. I suppose I don’t have a single technique. After all, my novels have a mixture of aliens and humans, contemporary and otherwise. For the contemporary humans I use names that are reasonably common today. Writers often base their characters on people they know and…
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Who really are the characters in my books?
I’ve heard it said that a writer’s often put elements of themselves into their characters. It’s an interesting thought and made me take another look at the characters in my books… Is there really anything of me in Drome, John, Dora or Dr Wilson? They’re not bad people so I don’t mind if there is.…
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What does modern actually mean?
I learned today that modern doesn’t always mean what I thought. I’ve always believed the definition of modern is “now” or even “recent times”. Apparently – in architecture and art at least – it means “up until the early 1970s”. Everything after that is post-modern. I’m pleased to report that the dictionary agrees with what…
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On the Air
At last we’re on the air! I’m excited to say the first two books in the Hollow Books series are available on Amazon. I published the first book Flight of the Gazebo in August and the second book Dangerous Ideals a few days ago. It was a nail biting time between the two books. Although…