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This chart, measuring two metres wide and a metre high at print resolution, was developed over the course of five years with each weapon captured, isolated and finally presented in rough chronological order by hand. Upon completion, a single, full-sized chart was printed and donated to the Child’s Play Charity for their 2010 Auction Dinner …
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Comedy has long claimed the phrase ‘timing is everything’, but the same applies to almost every facet of a novel. Broad strokes of this rule come into play with things like timing a book launch to cash in on Father’s Day or Christmas gift buying seasons, but that’s PR department stuff. Timing is everything when …
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I’m a big believer in plot, but often I read books that only have a story. Sometimes this is enough. For short stories, fables and even some films, all you need is a story that allows you to properly present an interesting character and let it blossom into something that people ‘click’ with. It doesn’t …
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As a novel, the Hunger Games was fairly compelling. It didn’t take me long to read it and I knew a few people who would also enjoy it. What hooked me was one part the (heavily veiled) history of Panem, another part was the games themselves and how they fit into this ‘new’ vision of …
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Quite by accident, I stumbled upon yet another way to make the antagonist of my novel series even more of a bastard. This is important to me; that he is presented as the best type of villain – the cold and calculating, hands-on, go-getter type of alpha male. He’s self-righteous and completely convinced of his …
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