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Gavin Bell

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Gavin Bell is the author of 138 Main, which will be 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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The concept behind this newsletter was, among other things, to look at every stage of writing a book and the tools and techniques I use to get a novel down on paper. There’s the Basic 500, of course, but essentially that’s just turning up every day. There’s a whole lot of other infrastructure I have in place to project manage a book. Some of it is niche or perhaps even unique to me, some of it is

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