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James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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James Field
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The Bell Tower Suite
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Gathering Clouds...
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Son of Peace: A Modern Historical Novel of Buddha
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Life in the Clouds: Strange Chronicles from a Stalled Century
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White Noise
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Gypsy Spell
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Doomsday Diary (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #9)
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Psycho Psyche (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #7)
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Yoikes (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #8)
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Fast Down
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Why Most Stories Fail Before They Even Start (Wrong Story Type)
This post is part 6 of a short series on story structure for fiction writers—practical, straightforward, and designed to help you build stories that actually work.
Most writers assume a story fails because of:weak proseflat dialoguepoor pacinglack of originality And certainly, those things can hurt a story.
But very often, the real problem appears much earlier.
Long before the writing itself.
The stor Read more of this blog post »
Most writers assume a story fails because of:weak proseflat dialoguepoor pacinglack of originality And certainly, those things can hurt a story.
But very often, the real problem appears much earlier.
Long before the writing itself.
The stor Read more of this blog post »
James’s Recent Updates
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"‘A Better Life’ is certainly an inflammatory page-turner and a touchstone for divided opinion.
Stereotyped characters, an unravelling descent into hell and an improbable ending (no spoilers) make this a challenging, but not unrewarding, read. Ultimat" Read more of this review » |
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"(B-) 71% | Satisfactory
Notes: Superman gets trapped in the Friend Zone, and mopes around like Charlie Brown between city-wrecking kaiju fights. *Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #1-2 ◦ Issues #3-4" Read more of this review » |
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"(B) 75% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: Read in trade paperback. Collective review for issues #13-18 can be found here: Kick-Ass: The New Girl, Vol. 3." Read more of this review » |
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| This is one of those books that hooks you immediately with a cracking premise and then keeps you hanging on to see where it all leads. A mortician who can hear the dead? That’s already enough to get the imagination ticking, and The Mortician’s Confes ...more | |
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Hello you wonderful people.
As usual, my latest book release has gone to the wrong author. My author name has two spaces between James and Field. Could ...more " |
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| I read The Nobel Prize and Its Global Influence partly because I live in Norway, the country that awards the Nobel Peace Prize each year, and I realised I knew far less about the man behind it than I probably should. This book gives a fascinating acc ...more | |
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| Making Connections: 266. GATHERING CLOUDS by James Field | 13 | 31 | May 31, 2012 05:31AM | |
| Making Connections: 3242. - CLOUDS OVER PLANET X by James Field | 1 | 10 | Jun 09, 2014 07:06PM |
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often lost with childhood. By adulthood humans had trained themselves to be coy and manipulative in response to the coy and manipulative society in which they lived, which led them to believe that everyone was trying to be as coy and manipulative as themselves and were uncertain about what was true and what was not. Beyond their few flashes of clarity, everything became a muddle of colliding doubts.”
― The Speaker for the Trees
― The Speaker for the Trees
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
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“The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Traumatic events can be compared to facing a demon pitcher on the baseball diamond. Life tells us we have to take a swing at the ball, but engaging this demon comes with consequences. If you make first base, you’ll feel the need to sleep. Not so bad. Second, you’ll want to forget it all happened. Don’t we all? But third base brings the onset of madness and if you step off the plate there’s only death. In the great game of life, sometimes it’s better to strike out than hit a home run. After all, you can relax in the Dugout with friends until you’re ready to knock the demon out of the park.”
Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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"It wasn’t about fixing my life on the surface, but about seeing that I was not entirely defined by what was happening inside my head. That small shift created space — and in that space, things slowly began to change."—James Field
Thanks for sharing this insight, James. I'm adding it to my quotes wall.
Hello James,Thank you for accepting my friend request. I’m glad to connect with you here.
Hi James,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin
