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The thought of dumping your first draft might sound or feel like a drastic and desperate thing to do. After all, you might have spent a lot of time tapping […]

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My new novel Memories are Made of This is out today. Because of covid, there won't be a physical launch of the book as usual. Instead you can listen to a chapter here:

https://soundcloud.com/simon-son-2/me...

My third novel entitled Memories are Made of This is out on June 1st. Stay tuned for more details.

Linterview’s Mission I am a self-published author of three books, Making Headlines, How I Learnt to Stop Missing England and Love the Herring or A Decade in Sweden, and Let Go. […]

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You may of heard the phrase kill your darlings, but when your darling just happens to be a 60000 word+ document, you’d be justified in convincing yourself that you really […]

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27 February 2016 – Linterview’s Mission I am a self-published author of three books, Making Headlines, How I Learnt to Stop Missing England and Love the Herring or A Decade in Sweden, and Let Go. I am also one of the writers in the Keyhole Stories project, which has launched two anthologies Keyhole Stories and Dead […]

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13 September 2018 – How do you deal with being rejected by agents or publishers? It’s never easy to receive a rejection by an agent or publisher. There are varying degrees of rejection and I almost every piece I have written has been rejected in some way or another. I submittedLet Goto as many agents and publishers […]

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27 February 2016 – Linterview’s Mission I am a self-published author of three books, Making Headlines, How I Learnt to Stop Missing England and Love the Herring or A Decade in Sweden, and Let Go. I am also one of the writers in the Keyhole Stories project, which has launched two anthologies Keyhole Stories and Dead […]

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I think every phrase has a time and place, and if used at the right time and in the right place, then every phrase should be left in the author’s […]

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4 February 2017 – What phrases do you tend to avoid and why? I think every phrase has a time and place, and if used at the right time and in the right place, then every phrase should be left in the author’s toolbox. I said in an earlier post that the word “suddenly” is […]

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