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Roger’s blog … The Importance of Reading

  Books. Reading. Study. Libraries. Bookstores. Literacy. The Written Word. Telling Stories. Fiction. Non-fiction. Journalism. What are you reading for? Not, ‘What are you reading?’ but ‘What are you reading for?’ That punchline comes from an old joke about a man in a diner. The waitress sees him with a...

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Roger’s blog … READ THE BOOK, SAW THE FILM…THE FILM WAS BETTER…

  According to opinions, such a statement as this has only ever been made a handful of times.  I have certainly never heard it, and possibly never will.  Storytelling, in all its many forms, seems to require its own individual technique.  Whether it be a film script, a short story,...

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Roger’s blog … THE SUBURBS OF HELL

  The prompt for this particular article was conversation with a colleague in a restaurant in Lyon. She asked about my son, now eighteen years of age, who is in the process of interviews and selections for university. He has been accepted by four universities thus far, three of them...

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Roger’s blog … IN COLD BLOOD

  In mid-November, 1959, Truman Capote, renowned author of ‘Other Voices, Other Rooms’ and ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ was struck by a newspaper article that appeared in the New York Times. Little more than a brief squib, it outlined the brutal shotgun-slaying of a farmer, his wife, and their two children....

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Roger’s blog … Book

  Here I find a friend who does not judge. Here I find a friend who regales and entertains, who educates, edifies, enlightens, amuses, horrifies, challenges, disturbs, comforts, consoles, identifies, relates and reasons. Here I find a friend who is there when I want them, also when I need them,...

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M.W. Craven Day – Who is Mike Craven?

  Hi, my name is M. W. Craven, although please feel to call me Mike (it’s my name, I’m not that weird), and I’m the author of Black Summer, published over here as Zwarte Zomer, the second book in the award-winning (the 2019 CWA Gold dagger, just in case you...

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Roger’s blog … IN THESE TRYING TIMES…

  Here are some interesting industry statistics. I know these figures are a good few years old, but they still tell a fascinating story. 1. Of the 200,000 books published worldwide each year only 2% become bestsellers. 2. 84% of the bestsellers are published by the 5 largest New York...

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