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How To Create A Brilliant Detective

Posted by Eva Bell on Thursday, March 28, 2013, In : Guest Posts 

Please welcome our guest this week, doctor and novelist Eva Bell. Eva has made a special study of that most alluring, yet most difficult, of genres - the detective story. Anyone can write a whoddunit but how do we make our sleuth compelling and credible? Eva shows us five ways to do it.

In this 21st century, when science and technology have made crime detection easy and precise, the old, spindly-legged spinster like Miss Marple is an oddity. So is Baronness Emmuska Orczy’s “Old Man in t...
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Why Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare

Posted by John Yeoman on Monday, October 31, 2011, In : Libels & Wickedness 

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?

Nonsense, or so the new movie Anonymous suggests. The Earl of Oxford wrote the entire canon of the Bard, it contends, while taking time out to be both the son and lover of Queen Elizabeth I. To use a 16th century expression: ‘Flapdoodle’.

That said, the Shakespeare of Stratford probably did not write Shakespeare’s plays.

Why? Let me digress for a moment....

Have you noticed that books today are not written but packaged? You pick up a novel Sapphire at a ...

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Lecturers to go on strike! Will anyone notice?

Posted by John Yeoman on Sunday, June 26, 2011, In : A Writer's Confessions 
On 30th June, university lecturers in the UK go on strike. A vacation at last!

Nobody will notice. I have just finished misleading 29 MA (MFA) students in the theories of Publishing Culture. (That’s an oxymoron, of course. Cultured publishers vanished the day they got into bed with supermarkets. But I digress...)

My contract finished last month. But nobody noticed.

No matter. As my swan song, I commend to my colleagues the new Chinese work ethic of ‘holiday dismemberment’ (The Times, 21st...
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John Yeoman

Dr John Yeoman, MA Oxon, MPhil, PhD Creative Writing, FSRS*  is a UK university tutor in the short story. He has 42 years experience as a successful commercial writer, newspaper editor and one-time chairman of a major PR consultancy.

He has published innumerable works of humour, some intended to be humorous.

* Founder, the Society for the Rehabilitation of the Semi-colon