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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: July 2015

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Friday, 10 July 2015. Government racism or just par for the course? I know I'm supposed to try and keep this blog about my writing, but this year has been too up and down so instead I'm using it to rant! I'd probably better explain. On top of that, we're expecting our first baby imminently (the NHS fees having already been paid by mine and her contributions, before you say anything), and now we're supposed to magic up another £500 from somewhere? Thrill...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: 7 weeks, 1 day.

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Thursday, 2 April 2015. 7 weeks, 1 day. If you read my previous post, you'll know that I ended up having to put my mum in care while dad was in hospital, fighting the fight against pancreatic cancer. I'll try and pick up where I left off, but so much has happened that some of it is a bit of a blur. At this point, I was waking up in the morning, driving my wife to get her bus for work at 0740, then driving over to Midhurst. I'd get to mum and dad's b...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: February 2015

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. The hardest week of my life. I don't know where to start, so I'll try the beginning of this episode. This post is not to do with my books, it's to do with the horrific situation I've found myself and my family in, so don't read on if you don't want to hear about it. A little over a month ago, dad was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer and given a prognosis of about three months. Two weeks ago, give or take, dad's live...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: March 2014

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Sunday, 23 March 2014. What's in a review? Well hopefully five stars and a thoughtful, well-written explanation of why it's the best book you've ever read, but that's not always the case. Nor should it be. As a self-pub author, I can tell you for a fact that we live and die by our reviews. Not only does every review make a difference to our sales, but to me each review, particularly the good ones, is a reward as important as the money I make. I used to ...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: January 2014

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Sunday, 26 January 2014. How to get published? At the moment i have 2 novels out with agents. It's a very confusing situation, as some have read one first then the other, and others the other way around. The first is But for the Grace of God, a dark, gritty crime novel st in Brighton, and the second is Flare, a novel where the sun strips us of all our electronics and plunges us back, technologically, 200 years overnight. Which again, is fair enough and ...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: But for the Grace of God

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Sunday, 9 February 2014. But for the Grace of God. As I often do, I've decided to post up the first couple of chapters of the novel that, all things proceeding as expected, will be hitting Kindle shortly. I finished writing this one almost a year ago, but what with one thing and another it's taken me this long to go through the agent process, and there's still a chance that it may get picked up. It hurt at first, even though I could justify the reasons ...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: February 2014

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Tuesday, 18 February 2014. Solar flares, the end of the world and lots and lots of tea. I did more research for this book than any other, and doing so made me realise just how vulnerable we are to solar storms, particularly if we get a biggy. So while your Kindle still works and the sun isn't frying everything we hold dear, now's the perfect chance to read about what might happen :). Sunday, 9 February 2014. But for the Grace of God. Others stare at you...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: April 2013

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Sunday, 28 April 2013. But for the grace of god. SO I FINISHED another novel. Instead of the usual 6 weeks, however, this one took me a little over 14 months. Why? I hear you cry. You know, i'm not sure myself. But most likely, i think it's because i listened to the feedback i was getting, and there were two main points i had to work on. The first was the constant "it's really good and commercially viable but just a bit too much like Peter James". It's ...

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World: March 2013

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Paul Grzegorzek's Thriller and Crime Fiction World. Saturday, 9 March 2013. Sunday morning short: 97 ways to die in Istanbul. In celebration of it being Sunday, I've decided to post up a short story that I wrote as a kind of tester for a novel I have in mind. I'd be interested to know your thoughts, so please don't be shy about commenting! 97 Ways to Die in Istanbul. Raising the glass to my lips, I took a sip of the hot tea, the bitterness eased with a hint of cinnamon. One of the first things that had s...