Mike’s Open Pages
Mike NicolThe writing life, writing by others, quotes from writers, writing guides & tips.
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AI - getting down to basics
1. Submission guidelines and AI
2. Four words on books
3. Writers on writing
4. When the deal closes out
5. Last thought
1. Checking through the submission guidelines on a number of publishers in South Africa recently, I only cam...
Editing, scams, harsh times, respite
Singing Foreigner’s “I want to know what love is”
1. A recent edit of a book written by an academic in his mid-twenties made me realise that there are a number of things we all need to keep in mind when submitting to a publisher in South...
Midnight torture by typo
The wall from which stories come.
1. The bane of a writer’s life
2. The mad and the writer
3. Four words on books
4. Gendered violence
1. Typos - the bane of the writing life. Probably every writer’s life. In my Fowler’s Modern En...
Chasing romance
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The importance of reading romance
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Out and about
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Using AI
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Robots escaping from novels
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Four words on books
Melissa Volker at the packed-out launch of her surfing history, Chasing Waves, in Noordhoek yesterday
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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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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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