John Dean's Blog – November 2020 Archive (4)

Encouraging feedback for Kill Shot

Delighted to say that there are plenty of decent reviews and ratings coming in on Amazon for my twentieth crime novel to be published. Thank you to all who took the time to give feedback, it is much appreciated.

Kill Shot (The Book Folks) plunges DCI Jack Harris into a scenario where what appears to be a local murder not only challenges his…

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Added by John Dean on November 20, 2020 at 10:28 — No Comments

Riding high in Canada

Delighted to say that a couple of the older DCI Jack Harris novels published by the Book Folks - Dead Hill and The Vixen's Scream - are enjoying a new lease of life in the Canadian Amazon Kindle British Detectives bestsellers chart - there are some brilliant writers in the top 100 and you can check out the chart at …

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Added by John Dean on November 20, 2020 at 10:21 — No Comments

Putting the pieces together

As a writer, I find that that it sometimes helps to liken the craft of plotting to completing a jigsaw, in that it’s all about slotting together many disparate pieces.

This thought came to mind as I worked to…

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Added by John Dean on November 20, 2020 at 10:02 — No Comments

The golden rules of writing

This is a subject I have broached in previous blogs but I feel that it is always worth returning to. As you may know, I teach writers both online and in person (they were the days!) and one of the things I focus on is my golden rules of writing.

This has come to mind again because I am running an online course at the moment and they form part…

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Added by John Dean on November 5, 2020 at 9:39 — No Comments

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I am delighted that two of my crime fiction works are this morning in the top 100 Organised Crime Kindle charts on Amazon.The DCI John Blizzard box set containing the first seven novels in the series, (The Book Folks) for just 99p - now if that is not an outstanding offer, I do not know what is -  is at number 43 (it is already topping various anthology charts).My new…See More
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A few years ago, I ran a creative writing course and, at the beginning of one of the sessions, I asked my fifteen students how they worked.The result was fifteen different answers –one author wrote everything by hand then typed it onto their computer, another wrote it all in note form then linked the notes together, one did not edit anything until everything was…See More
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Writing is an art form which combines two skills which appear, at first glance, to have nothing on common – unrestrained creativity and well-controlled discipline.However, good writing is not possible without either of them. To explain, as I write the latest DCI Jack Harris crime novel, I am being disciplined and following the synopsis that I developed right from the…See More
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