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J.P. Harker

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I often see author profiles that talk about being lifelong storytellers and coming up with wild ideas since they were kids. It'd be nice to say that of me, but that's not how it went.
When I was about eighteen a friend asked me, out of the blue, to help write some stories for a comic book he was working on and, while it never came to anything, trying it made me realise this was something I enjoyed.

I then spent many years intermittently trying to write books and short stories, none of which were particularly good and most of which were pretty half-hearted.

In 2014 I decided to have a proper go of it and wrote a massive tome that was far too long and bulky to publish, but which at least had the makings of a decent book. I hacked at it, abandon
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J.P. Harker I can create a world where I am literally (get it?) always right.
J.P. Harker Step away from your project and write something else - like a short story in a different genre - then come back to it with a fresher mind.
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