Mike’s Open Pages
Mike NicolThe writing life, writing by others, quotes from writers, writing guides & tips.
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The disappearance of literary men
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC on Unsplash
It has got to the point where I have to say thank you to the many women who read fiction, because clearly not many men do. Maybe it has ever been thus, but certainly it is thusly now.
Ear...
Schmoozing in the mafia state
With Tony Park and Sally Andrew in The Book Cottage, Hermanus
The FynArts book events in Hermanus had sold-out sessions last week which is huge kudos to the assiduous Paige Nick (she of the recent novel, Book People) who got us all togethe...
"I will come to your house and kill you"
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Intro. AI allegations
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AI manuscripts flooding in
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AI might have won the Commonwealth Prize for short stories
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AI likes talking about sweetness
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AI characters fidget but do nothing...
Of all things, we need shorter novels
Just recently I read Sally Cranswick’s new novel, Of All Things, We Need Hope. It’s 190 pages. (My estimated word count was about or just under sixty thou and Sally confirmed it’s fifty-five thousand.) I started reading in the evening and t...
Our fascination with books
1. The upcoming Fynarts Festival in Hermanus
2. The just finished Kingsmead Book Fair
3. Masterclass writers doing their thing at Kingsmead
4. How much South Africans spend on books
1. The next book festival is a mere three weeks...
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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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