What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

There’s nothing like getting lost in creating your exciting odyssey. It’s a great escape, not just for readers. But first you need the whole story. I suggest trying something smallish first and saving your magnus opus for later, so you can experience the whole lifecycle quickly to see if it’s really for you. Writing’s not just rewriting (as someone said), there’s also production and online marketing too which can be half or more of the effort on a title. If you’re going to use professional editing, branding and production it can get expensive too. Read widely and learn…

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Review of Rocket Men by Robert Kurson (NY Times Best-seller)

While we await Liberty One, I thought I'd stick to the space theme for this month's review. Rocket Men is a non-fiction account of Apollo 8, NASA’s first manned mission to leave Earth and head for the Moon in 1968. The astronauts didn’t land of course - that happened on Apollo 11 the following year, but the significance of this mission is that the crew were the first humans to leave planet Earth for another world. They took monumental risks to get all those great earthrise shots we love. This book is great on so many fronts. It begins with the Cold War, so you get…

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