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My Favorite Reads of 2019
With just a few weeks left in 2019, I'd like to give a shout-out to a few of my absolute favorite reads of the year (so far) and just...
R J Clark
Dec 13, 20193 min read
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Oh, the horror!
It's really hard to believe that my debut novel, Far From Grace, is now only eleven months away from publication! People have asked me if...
R J Clark
Nov 8, 20192 min read
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Writing Book of the Month: Summer
"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often...
R J Clark
Aug 27, 20191 min read
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Writing Book of the Month: February
"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his...
R J Clark
Feb 12, 20192 min read
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Inspiration versus Perspiration
Art isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define...
R J Clark
Jan 15, 20192 min read
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Set your 2019 goals now!
2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018...
R J Clark
Dec 31, 20181 min read
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6 things I learned writing my first novel
Or, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...
R J Clark
Dec 30, 20185 min read
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Writing Book of the Month: December
"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's...
R J Clark
Dec 27, 20182 min read
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What are you willing to give up?
Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to...
R J Clark
Nov 15, 20182 min read
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TRICK: a new 'Halloween' short story
TRICK November 1. 2:38am. Vic spotted the older man first, zeroing in on the limping fellow as their van drove down the deserted Main...
R J Clark
Oct 31, 20188 min read
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"The Little Things" is now available for free on Amazon for Halloween!
Happy Halloween, and happy birthday, Kane! To celebrate Kane's first birthday, you can now read The Little Things: a tiny terror for free...
R J Clark
Oct 31, 20181 min read
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Halloween special! Ready to meet the man called Kane?
Kane was an odd-looking fellow — as tall as Geoff was short, gaunt, with equally long, thin extremities. His skin was almost as creamy...
R J Clark
Oct 30, 20182 min read
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You can call me 'Belle'
I completed the second draft of my debut novel "The Belles of St. Mary's" over the weekend. What a rush! Three-hundred and forty-seven...
R J Clark
Oct 29, 20181 min read
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