by Daniel Pascoe | Apr 30, 2020 | Writing (the creative side)
For too long over recent times, we in the UK became obsessed with the psychodrama that sucked the lifeblood out of virtually every other issue. Brexit, like a serial TV boxed set with an increasingly implausible plot, hypnotized us with its ‘no deal’ hypotheses...
by Daniel Pascoe | Apr 5, 2020 | Writing (the creative side)
… not necessarily for one hundred years. News items are measured by their novelty factor, to attract attention. The pandemic over the last two or three weeks has provided plenty of unusual and novel news items. And we writers, we novelists, are all about novelty. We...
by Daniel Pascoe | Jan 1, 2020 | Writing (the creative side)
Over the last decade, our advanced liberal democracies have crafted a society in which millions of people no longer feel recognised or rewarded, a broken society, in which the majority hold the view that traditional politics no longer listens to them but happily...
by Daniel Pascoe | Sep 11, 2019 | Writing (the creative side)
“You do not get what you deserve in this business, only what you negotiate – no one will beat your door down to publish you.” From listening and talking to writers, literary agents, book doctors, publishers and retailers over the weekend, certain messages ring out...
by Daniel Pascoe | Aug 29, 2019 | Writing (the creative side)
MY FAVOURITE SIX BOOKS OF ALL TIME Here we are on a quiet afternoon at the end of August, I just thought about my favourite books of all time – these are books that I loved from the very start of reading them, books that I have read again and sometimes again,...
by Daniel Pascoe | Jul 26, 2019 | Writing (the creative side)
The average book sells 3000 copies in its lifetime Lots of great books make tiddly squat for their authors, lots of crap books make them millions. Is it 4/5 star reviews on Amazon or Goodreads recommendations that you are after? A review in the South China Morning...
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