Author: Richard Holliday
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Milwordy Thoughts

Recently I wrote about developing healthy writing habits to bring about a positive change in workflow while maintaining productivity. This has been going mostly well for me – I’ve been setting writing goals most weeks and achieving them, though I have been a bit uninspired of late while my novel is being read by beta-readers;…
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Defrosting The Thaw: Surveying Beta Readers

I’m currently in the process of gaining feedback from a selection of beta-readers for my work-in-progress post-apocalyptic thriller novel The Thaw, which is now at draft 3 stage. I’ve had three out of the eight people who have been sent the work respond, and I’ve undertaken a couple of beta-reads myself in that time. First…
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Review: Displaced

Disclosure: I was provided with a copy of Displaced ahead of release by the author, Dan Hook, for review purposes. Post-apocalyptic books, from my own experience, live or die on the strength of the imagery and world-building, but also on the strength of the characters that populate that world and the plot that befalls them.…