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Jakob Melander

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Born

in Copenhagen, Denmark

February 15, 1965

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Crime, Thriller

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Shakespeare, Orhan Pamuk, William Gibson, Gottfried Benn

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November 2013

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jakob Melander Two things: First of all read!! Read everything, the great russian novelist, thrashy science fiction, Proust, commercials, the text on serial boxes. S…moreTwo things: First of all read!! Read everything, the great russian novelist, thrashy science fiction, Proust, commercials, the text on serial boxes. Some day you'll discover that you can use all of it.
Then write! When I was a teenager, apart from dabbling in punk rock, playing rock'n roll and reading comic books plus all of the above mentioned, I was also drawing. A lot. This was in the late seventies/early eighties. At that time there was a very popular book, called To Draw is to See. In this book the writer said: Draw and sketch as much as you can, 'cause we all have a million bad drawings inside us. The thing is to draw them to get them out, so we can start drawing all the good ones! So even if you think your work sucks, you'll learn from it, and if you're persistent, eventually you will have written you share of bad work and get on with writing the good stuff.
Oh, and remember: Hemmingway supposedly said "The first draft of anything is shit!" I mean, if he could say that, you and I maybe shouldn't be too intimidated if our first drafts aren't spot on!(less)

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Jakob Melander I'm currently working on the third book in the series. I've finished the first draft of the book, and right now I've put it aside until the middle of …moreI'm currently working on the third book in the series. I've finished the first draft of the book, and right now I've put it aside until the middle of August to be able to read and edit it with a fresh approach. That always seems to work well for me. Somehow the subconscious molds and thrashes the story around when I'm not directly working on it, coming up with new, fresh and better solutions to the problems the text poses, than my Id could have done:)(less)

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	Øjesten (Lars Winkler, #1) 3.42 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2013 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scream of the Butterfly (Lars Winkler, #2) 3.51 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jeg er Sarons rose (Krimiserien med Christian Porsing og Sigga Freitag, #1) 3.39 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De berusedes vej (Lars Winkler, #3) 3.53 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Det bedste til mig og mine venner (Lars Winkler, #4) 3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De døde og de ufødte (Lars Winkler, #5) 3.89 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Station Z (Krimiserien med Christian Porsing og Sigga Freitag, #2) 3.47 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fjenden iblandt os (Lars Winkler, #6) 3.70 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forbandet blod (Askehave, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ind i den hvide nat (Lars Winkler, #7) 3.62 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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