Category Archives: Conformity

….Of ‘time’ and ‘blinksnaps’…

Posted on January 25, 2017 by niffsoup

The other even’up, warm in front of Matlock’s fireside, I found myself having to explain ‘time’ to him. I say ‘having’ – it was really by way of an excuse; I’d stayed too long drinking brottle-leaf brews and knew I … Continue reading →

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Moveable mountains and a majickal-hare…

Posted on December 8, 2016 by niffsoup

Okay – let’s start with a confession; I’m fify-three and probably shouldn’t need things explained to me at my age. Especially by a majickal-hare. Not that Matlock sees it that way – more, I hope he simply tolerates my visits … Continue reading →

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The books that shouldn’t sell…

Posted on August 3, 2016 by niffsoup

“What readers need,” a portly editor from a major publishing company told me many years ago as he confidently struck a pen through great swathes of my manuscript, “is peril.  Plenty of peril. A lot less of all this ‘character … Continue reading →

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Conformity, Genre and Dudge-Whammets…

Posted on June 27, 2016 by niffsoup

‘Describe your books in Ten seconds…’ ‘It’s sort of a bit like Lord of the Rings, only with more laughs.  And with animals.’ ‘Get out’. Last night, at the end of a weekend which left many wondering just how it … Continue reading →

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