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Simon M. Garrett

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Simon M Garrett was born in England, about thirty miles south west of London. He lived in an ordinary house with his younger brother, but they invented extra-ordinary adventures, and Simon discovered the excitement of creating stories.

However, Simon was told that writing and story-telling was not a real job, that he couldn't spell, that his writing was messy, and that he wasn't a writer. Instead, he was encouraged to study Physics and Mathematics, both of which had a beauty about them, but which lacked the expressive possibilities that he wanted.

He painted and wrote music in his spare time, failed his exams, ended up at Art School, and failed that too.

Eventually, he ended up as a computer programmer for the government. A sensible if soul-
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The Importance of a 'Hook' for your Book ... and How to Misuse It

Oh dear me, look at this title! Writing as if I’m some sort of expert all of a sudden!And yet...
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Published on October 18, 2013 13:29
Average rating: 3.44 · 27 ratings · 21 reviews · 2 distinct works
Teddy and the Darkgate (Ted...

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Simon M Garrett Simon M Garrett said: " I wrote the book so I can't really comment on it in any objective way ... but I found it doesn't matter: those that loved the first Teddy book *really* loved it; those that didn't get it at all thought it was a complete waste of time. So after a few ...more "

 
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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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