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Gavin Bell

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in Glasgow, The United Kingdom

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Thriller, Crime, Mystery

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Gavin Bell is the author of 138 Main, published in 2026 by Simon & Schuster.

Under the pseudonym of Mason Cross, Gavin wrote the Carter Blake series of thrillers published by Orion. The first, The Killing Season, was published in 2014 and was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. It was followed by four further novels in the series, including the Richard and Judy Book Club selection, The Samaritan. He has also written standalone thrillers as Alex Knight, including Hunted and Darkness Falls.

He lives in Glasgow with his wife and three children.

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Formatting a manuscript in Word

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The aim of this newsletter is to talk about what goes into writing a novel from start to finish. Sometimes that’s about ephemeral concepts like how ideas float into your head and finding your way to the soul of a book, sometimes it’s more nuts and bolts.

This is very much a nuts-and-bolts entry. In fact, I suspect this will be the most nuts-and-bolts entry I wil

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