Bøger af Geoff Palmer

I want to write a book. Where do I start?Are you thinking of writing a novel or a nonfiction book but aren't sure where to begin? Perhaps you've heard of the Snowflake Method, the 30-Day Method, the 5-Draft Method, outlining, plotters and pantsers, but are just having trouble fitting writing into your life.This is the writing guide to get you going!Maybe you've already started a book - once, twice, several times - yet somehow drifted away, lost focus, lost momentum, and ended up dumping your manuscript in the too-hard basket.This is the writing guide to get you back on track!12 simple steps to becoming an authorDivided into three easy stages, How to Write a Book has 12 simple steps that take you through the process of writing from start to finish.Part 1: Getting Started explores the tricks of the mind that stand in the way of a would-be writer. From finding the time, to dealing with distractions, battling Resistance, what to do when your mind's a blank, and even writing with a tomato!Part 2: Keeping Going. Most novels are abandoned one-third of the way in. Find out why. And find out what you can do when you hit The Wall, strike writer's block, or are trapped in the tyranny of constant changes.Part 3: Letting Go. The tricks of the mind don't stop once you type THE END. This part looks at the quest for perfection (and how to handle it), dealing with rejections, and what to do once you think you're done.Bonus chapter: A special bonus chapter deals with what you should write, the business of writing, being a guinea pig, doing a Nanowrimo ("write a novel in a month"), the three Ps (Practice, Productivity and Professionalism), and what being a successful writer really means.Write the novel you've always dreamed of writing. Start today!Excerpt from the IntroductionOn 1 September 1995, Jim Grant sat down to write. He'd never written a novel before and, having just been made redundant from his job at Granada Television, reckoned he'd have to earn himself a laptop. So he went out and bought three pads of paper, a pencil, a pencil-sharpener and an eraser, investing the princely sum of £3.99 in his new vocation. Then settled down to work. Long-hand.The book he wrote - called Killing Floor - earned Grant a laptop all right, and a great deal more. It, and his subsequent books, have regularly topped the bestseller charts for the last twenty years. But you probably don't recognise his name. That's because Grant writes under the pseudonym Lee Child.My aim in opening with that story wasn't to add to the mythology of Jim Grant/Lee Child, or to help him sell more books. (He seems to be doing okay without my assistance.) What I wanted to emphasise was the writer's basic tools: pads of papera pencila pencil-sharpeneran eraserThat, really, is all you need. And it's all writers have needed for centuries.You don't need a new laptop with terabytes of disk space and monitor large enough to be seen from the Moon. All you need is £3.99's worth of supplies. (About $5 in the US.)If you have a typewriter, great. A computer's even better. But neither of those things are essential. All you really need is some method of recording your thoughts. A pencil and paper work fine. Just ask Lee Child.

Move along, please. Nothing weird here!Fleeing Earth with the Sentinels in hot pursuit, Tim, Coral and their friends face more perils and fiendish plots when they travel to Eltheria. But what should be a triumphant homecoming turns into a cat-and-mouse battle with new, sinister forces ranged against them.Meanwhile, an older, darker, more powerful enemy begins to stir...Tim and Coral's heart-stopping, adrenaline-filled adventure continues with The Man with the Missing Jaw. Don't miss it!Buy The Man with the Missing Jaw, or you won't know what Welis is trying to tell you!

Cats are missing, people are dying. Jane Child might be next!Bluebelle Investigations is up and running and Jane Child has her first case: a missing cat. (How did she get the boring one?) Partner Matt Healy is investigating counterfeit coffee and threats to a Royal Appointment.But sometimes less is more. More complex, more frightening and much, much more dangerous.Add in hackers, crafty cover-ups, hired assassins and murder, and you have all the elements of another gripping Jane Child / Matt Healy thriller.Buy Private Lives today, because Bluebelle has a new cat door!

From award-winning author Geoff Palmer comes a page-turning thriller about a missing scientist, vile secrets, and deadly weapons.MI5 have a problem. Chief weapons scientist Terence Araton is missing and they'd like him found, quickly, quietly, and without a fuss. The perfect job for private detectives Jane Child and Matt Healy of Bluebelle Investigations.But there's more to this mysterious case than meets the eye. Shocking family secrets lurk beneath Araton's slick English facade, and Jane and Matt aren't the only ones desperate to find him. A pair of hapless crooks and some foreign intelligence agencies are using them as bait, tracking every move they make with murderous intent.The baffling case reopens old wounds, and soon Matt is battling demons of his past - as well as the ruthless villains chasing them. Then Jane makes a chilling discovery, forcing her to face her own worst nightmare: an impossible life or death, hair-trigger situation where she must make a snap decision and, just possibly, save the world.Prepare to be nailed to your seat by another heart-pounding, hair-raising, high-octane thriller in the best Bluebelle Investigations tradition.