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J.W. Hicks

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JW Hicks, born and bred in South Wales, writes speculative fiction. Weaned on Grimm and Mary Norton she graduated to Heinlein, Dick and Cherryh. Her dystopian novel, Rats, published with the Triskele Books collective was published October 2014.

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

J.W. Hicks Has to be Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.

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You have such an unusual voice in your writing. You use words in ways I have never seen them used before! How did your style evolve?

J.W. Hicks My writing's futuristic, so I feel it needs a different feel to both style and vocabulary. I want it to be… other. In Rats I aimed for a pared down st…moreMy writing's futuristic, so I feel it needs a different feel to both style and vocabulary. I want it to be… other. In Rats I aimed for a pared down style, an intimate close quarter grab-your attention kind of approach. Oh, and I love neologisms, but they have to be easily assimilated and quite obvious to the reader, e.g. snaff - from snaffle, to steal. Too much gobbledegook leaves the reader confused and unwilling to read further.
There are no traditional swearwords in Rats. I invent new ones, such as frinking, which derives from the name of a traitor – The Hon Stuart Frink.
Modern day swearing will date, whereas inventions don't.
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	Fifteen Shades for Grey by J.J. Marsh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.D. Lewis, J.W. Hicks (Goodreads Author) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rats 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, Volume 21: Mechanisms of Systemic Regulation: Respiration and Circulation by Norbert Heisler (Assistant), G. Boutilier (Assistant), W.W. Burggren (Assistant) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars