by admin | Aug 16, 2015 | Review
Tim Adler grumbles about two new fiction writing books giving away trade secrets I hesitate to review these books. Who wants a magician to give away the secret of how he does it? Keeping a secret from the audience is after all a perfectly valid position. Both these...
by admin | Aug 8, 2015 | Blog
Or how the publishing world has changed beyond all recognition. Tim Adler explains why Urbane represents a new business paradigm for authors and publishers This week I signed a paperback publishing deal with Urbane Publications, an independent publisher which launched...
by admin | Aug 1, 2015 | Blog
*WARNING* *contains spoilers* The moment in The Truman Show when Jim Carrey’s boat bumps up against a soundstage and he realises that he’s in a TV set. When Michael Douglas touches a price tag hanging from a lampshade in his girlfriend’s apartment in...
by admin | Jul 25, 2015 | Review
Poor Ian Fleming. All that success in his own lifetime as he witnessed James Bond taking off, selling millions of copies around the world — Even his wife called him “Beatle Bond” –yet he was utterly miserable. “He gave the impression of not geing able to...
by admin | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog
Readers of Slow Bleed will know that Dr Jemma Sands flees the police through the Gorges du Verdon, one of Europe’s mightiest canyons. This month I revisited the canyon to see if I could put myself through Jemma’s endurance test. Driving upwards through the Gorges du...