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What’s a good piece of good advice you ve received about writing? Have a reserve liver. I remember being at a huge festival in the UK where the statistic was crime writers spend more at the bar in one hour at this venue than wedding parties do over the day. I’ve been to a lot of festivals now, and never seen any evidence to suggest that isn’t true.
Any advice for writers starting out? Read good books to inspire you, and bad books to show you that you can do better.
What do you read for enjoyment? I mostly read crime and horror – always have – and I don’t see that changing. I’m still a sucker for vampires, werewolves, zombies etc. Every now and then I’ll throw some classic piece of literature in there.
Book review: The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
8 Apr, 2021 10:58 PM
3 minutes to read
The Quiet People by Paul Cleave
Hawkes Bay Today
Reviewed by Louise Ward, Wardini Books
In this grisly crime novel, writer Paul Cleave creates two fictional crime writers accused of a crime and asks the question, can crime writers get away with murder? That s a lot of crime. And writers.
Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are commercially successful novelists. They live in a nice area of Christchurch, travel a lot and have a 7-year-old son, Zach, a generally good kid who occasionally flips out with a C.Z.M (crazy Zach moment).
Courtesy of Upstart Press, we have five copies of
Gulf Wars: How We Kept The Cup by Richard Gladwell to give away. A pictorially driven celebration of Emirates Team New Zealand’s America’s Cup win in Auckland 2021.