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Mike’s Open Pages

Mike Nicol

The writing life, writing by others, quotes from writers, writing guides & tips.

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Latest Issues

Chasing romance

  1. The importance of reading romance

  2. Out and about

  3. Using AI

  4. Robots escaping from novels

  5. Four words on books

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Getting cosy

1. What, I was beginning to wonder, has happened to hard-boiled crime fiction in English in South Africa? After taking off so successfully during the twenty-teens it seems to have slowed and gone cosy. The last two authors I’ve interviewed...

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Some good things; some things to be pissed-off about

  1. Chasing Waves

  2. Chatting with Juliette Mnqeta

  3. Die Schakalin arrives at the post office

  4. Getting to grips with AI

  5. A bit of a (necessary) rant

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Month of the Jackal

  1. Publication day

  2. A scrumptious recipe

  3. What Mary McCarthy thought of Lilian Hellman

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Child's play

The making of a story…

1. A few evenings back I was invited to speak to a group of people who gather once a month to talk about books. They’re not a book club. They’re most adamant about that. They meet to talk about books. Just so happen...

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    Where to begin? South Africa, Cape Town. Where I look out on wind-blown False Bay and write crime thrillers, run a nine-month online writing class, and, once, was a journalist. Most evenings the sun goes down in a glass of red wine.

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