How Not to Write a Novel by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark

There are thousands of books out there for budding writers that purport to show how to write your great novel. This book is somewhat different in that it endeavors to show you how NOT to write your novel, or novil, as was first written here.

The book lists two hundred mistakes to avoid at all costs, and if you are struggling to write a good book, then this list may well save you an awful lot of grief.

It is a well known fact that sex scenes are amongst the hardest to write, and boy, that sure is true! Reading some of the bungled attempts featured in this book and I can well believe it. I am not certain whether the “bad writing” featured in this guide is real or simply made up, but of one thing I am certain, some of the bad sex is so toe-curlingly awful, it becomes hugely amusing. It's enough to put one off sex, or at least writing about it, forever. Continue reading more about that here

Book Reviewers Wanted

For New British Crime Fiction

Hey there - wherever you may be. If you are interested in crime fiction and you maybe have a little time on your hands, would you be interested in reading my new book The Sound of Sirens, with a view to writing and placing a review on Amazon?

If so, just let me know if you have written any previous reviews and where I can see them, and if we think we can do somethiing together, I'll send you a copy of the book - either a PDF or a paperback and we'll take it from there.

If you write crime fiction maybe you'd be interested in sending me your book in exchange, then do let me know, and again we'll see if we can work something out betwen us.

Please use the contact form coming up in a sec.

or if you want to check out my new book The Sound of Sirens, you can do that here

Thanks for reading and for your consideration,

best wishes,

David C

Sunday November 10th 2013 and it's Remembrance day today.

Took these photos in the sunshine at the War memorial in New Milton, Hampshire. See here for that

A good turnout too. Well done everybody!!

PS: This is my first blog post on my new website so it's something of a guinea pig of a blogpost.

Will it make it out into the blogosphere?

Hope so,

Have fun,

David C