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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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James Field
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The Bell Tower Suite
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2014
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Gathering Clouds...
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2012
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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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2013
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Gypsy Spell
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2013
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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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2015
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Yoikes (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #8)
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2015
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Fast Down
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Why Every Scene Must Earn Its Place
Hello fellow fiction authors.
Let’s be honest: we all have favourite scenes. The quiet café conversation. The long walk where the hero thinks about life. The chapter where two characters finally sit down and talk things through.
The trouble is… liking a scene doesn’t mean it deserves to be in the book.
One of the biggest reasons novels feel slow, bloated, or “nice but dull” is because they’re packed Read more of this blog post »
Let’s be honest: we all have favourite scenes. The quiet café conversation. The long walk where the hero thinks about life. The chapter where two characters finally sit down and talk things through.
The trouble is… liking a scene doesn’t mean it deserves to be in the book.
One of the biggest reasons novels feel slow, bloated, or “nice but dull” is because they’re packed Read more of this blog post »
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read in October 2025
James Field said:
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Poe’s tales, without the tangle.
Buried alive. Driven mad. Haunted by guilt, grief, and things best left in the dark…
In Dead Easy, the classic horror tales of Edgar Allan Poe are retold in modern, clear English—sharp, spooky, and accessible for today’
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James Field
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4 other people
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Ronie Reads's review
of
Alien 'n' Outlaw (Galactic Alliance #2):
"An interesting topic, "I'm doing this for you" a phrase that has damaged a many ah relationships. When you make decisions that could make ineffable negative or positive changes in a person's life. Ya might need to talk to them about the issue. Just s"
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"Some of the earlier issues - as I've said before - spent too much time with character introductions and preamble. This one goes all-in on that and makes it the whole point of the story and, thus, makes it actually work. Almost the whole thing's just "
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James Field
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21 other people
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Juho Pohjalainen's review
of
Temple of Terror (Fighting Fantasy #14):
"Something of a sequel to Forest of Doom, I think, where you're resting on your laurels after having saved the dwarves when Yaztromo runs in to recruit you for a new adventure: find and destroy Evil Sorcerer #5, Malbordus!
By collecting a bunch of hidd" Read more of this review » |
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"(B+) 78% | Good
Notes: An avian listing (all non-existing), silly, creatively strong, but doesn't change, no story range, just cruises far too long. *Progress update" Read more of this review » |
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Thanks, Kath
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Better luck with the next book, Kelli
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| The Terminal Gene is one of those thrillers that hooks you with a single, chilling idea: what if there really were a gene that predicted the exact moment of your death? From there, John H. Thomas builds a fast-moving techno-conspiracy around genetics ...more | |
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James Field
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Mykonos made me do it: Travel guide, stories, tips, history, and insider wisdom of Mykonos
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Thanks, Chewable Orb. (I chuckle every time I see your name :-))
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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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Hi James,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin
