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First Time I Met The Blues: February 2012
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Friday, 24 February 2012. The dying art of editing. Do publishers not bother editing books any more? And do authors not take the trouble to check their work before they deliver their work to the publisher? Take the opening sentence of William Boyd’s ‘Ordinary Thunderstorms’. It’s a superb novel, one of the best I read last year, but it starts unpromisingly:. You can see how it happened, of course. Somewhere in the...
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First Time I Met The Blues: December 2011
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Thursday, 15 December 2011. Having finally bought myself an iPhone, I popped into WH Smith yesterday and picked up one of several guides to the device that were on sale there. I now wish I’d spent a bit longer making my choice, because The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide to iPhone. Even the title is slightly off-kilter) is without doubt the most poorly-written commercial publication I have ever seen. View my complete profile.
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First Time I Met The Blues: March 2012
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Saturday, 17 March 2012. It’s in the trees. This time last week, I spent much of the morning queueing at my local Royal Mail sorting office to pick up a package the postman hadn’t been able to fit through the letterbox. It was worth the wait, though, as the package included a shiny new copy of Even More Rock Family Trees. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Click here to return to timturnerbooks.co.uk. First Time I Met The Bl...
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First Time I Met The Blues: All change!
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Sunday, 27 October 2013. When I started this blog in 2009, it was essentially a marketing exercise. The conventional wisdom was that self-published authors like me needed to find ways to connect with potential readers, and the internet was the perfect vehicle for this. So I started a blog in which I would write about my novel, First Time I Met The Blues. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Can blue men play the whites?
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First Time I Met The Blues: November 2013
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Sunday, 24 November 2013. I’ve been listening to music for 40-odd years now. Ask anyone who knows me what my favourite activities are, and they’ll put ‘listening to music’ high on the list. But it’s only recently that I’ve realised that, despite all those years of practice, I’m actually rubbish at it. Part of the problem, I think, is the way my brain is wired. It favours activities that involve the eyes, particula...
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First Time I Met The Blues: August 2011
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Wednesday, 31 August 2011. Don’t give up the day job. It seems that you can’t open the Guardian (or rather, the Books section of the Guardian website) these days without reading another depressing article about the future (or lack of one) for books and, as a result, authors. A couple of weeks ago, Sam Leith wrote about how the Kindle was killing off the printed book. As I wrote a few months ago. She’s one of the...
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First Time I Met The Blues: July 2011
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Sunday, 24 July 2011. Having written not long ago about my difficulties with non-fiction, it’s only fair to point out that I recently read a factual book all the way through, and was riveted throughout. Matt Potter’s Outlaws Inc. Tuesday, 12 July 2011. A bad week in December. I wrote a while ago about the benefits. Of reading bad books. I wouldn’t say A Week In December. I should start by saying that I’m a fan o...
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First Time I Met The Blues: Now here’s a funny thing
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Sunday, 28 October 2012. Now here’s a funny thing. I take it as a compliment that Paul believes me capable of writing comic novels, but I think he underestimates the difficulty of the task. Very few authors manage it successfully. Here’s my personal top five (in reverse order, naturally). Recommended reading: Indecent Exposure. Series ran out of steam by the end, but the first three books are glorious, full of clever ...
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First Time I Met The Blues: June 2012
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First Time I Met The Blues. Or: Woke up this morning, wrote a novel about a blues band. Sunday, 10 June 2012. It appears that I haven’t posted anything here for three months, which is a bit of a shock to me – especially since ‘Write blog entry’ appears on my to-do list every week. But much longer – around 5,000 words – and more nakedly autobiographical. I’ll be interested to see how it fits in with the other pieces in the book. In the autumn. As I wrote last year. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). First Time I...
