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Tomorrow The Grace

Carolina: “Ambition and war and vices are always with us. He was most correct only about the fall of empires. This Bonaparte’s must be next.”

Tomorrow The Grace

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Robert: “My friend who wrote that letter, he’s passed eighty now. When I was in Paris fifty years ago, where I met him, he loved her dearly. And, oh, Nancy, how she loved him…”

Conventions: The Garden At Paris

Trilogy [Paperback]: Passports, Frontiers, Distances: The Three Novels in One Volume (2018 Compilation)

Béatrice: “We will all of us have a drink to everyone we remember and love.”

Trilogy

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997 (Book 3)

Bill: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.”

Distances: Atlantic Lives, 1996-1997

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996 (Book 2)

Valérie: “Because you are born on a farm, this does not make you a horse!”

Frontiers: Atlantic Lives, 1995-1996

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995 (Book 1)

Isabelle: “I’ll set the table… This is better than a restaurant. Oh, and by when I leave… I expect you will have told me all about General de Gaulle also.”

Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994-1995

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Category: Capture The Cause

Their Reader’s Eye

Capture The Cause General9 Feb 20219 Feb 2021

Writing a book is, to me, mostly just barely controlled chaos. At the start of a new one, I set out a basic outline of a few pages of what I think may happen, including the ending. Subsequently, there is no real “pattern” to getting the bulk of it finished.

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All Of The Authors’ Questions

Capture The Cause General2 Feb 20212 Feb 2021

I find it far easier to write when I use something about myself as a basis for something fictional. I think that is so because I know then that because it is not technically fictional that it then makes the fictional writing that much more truly human.

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With The Current

Capture The Cause General18 Jan 202118 Jan 2021

No matter how many books you have completed, no matter if readers have said what you write is good or even excellent (if you are lucky), you are never quite sure of where you stand with the current manuscript.

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Winding Down Another Year

Capture The Cause General31 Dec 202031 Dec 2020

The major reason I am a writer is my (now late) uncle (a crime novelist who died in 2015) urged me to give it a go. I would never have had the courage to do so if not for him.

Back in the 1990s he began to get on at me to write a novel…

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On Page One

Capture The Cause General18 Dec 202018 Dec 2020

Poland will play a part in the story. But I am saying no more here right now. 😉

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From “Self-Isolation”

Capture The Cause General13 Dec 202013 Dec 2020

We flew back here to London on Friday evening. We are now re-acclimating time-zone-wise. However, we cannot go out for 10 days.

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