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Links of the week November 27 2023 (48)
Where to Submit Your Poetry in 2023-2024 • Poetry School
Nielsen Bestseller Award winner: Mark Billingham
For the second in our profiles of bestselling authors, this week we're delighted to speak to Mark Billingham, who was recently presented with three Nielsen Bestseller Awards: gold for selling half a million copies of Sleepyhead, and silver for selling a quarter of a million copies of both Scaredy Cat and Buried, all published by Little, Brown.
It all starts with your story
Ashleigh Nugent on his transition from criminal with one GCSE to BA Hons, acclaimed writer, and mentor
M.C. Benner Dixon on Creating Persuasive Metaphors ‹ Literary Hub
My name has always felt, somehow, apart from me. But names, like all words, are approximations. From the day of my birth, I was called Christie, though it wasn't really my name. My real name was Christine. Well, my middle name was Christine. My first name - Miriam - I heard only at the receptionist's window of the dentist's office or on the first day of school. Whenever someone would call that name, reading it from a card or a chart, I would timidly acknowledge myself as Miriam, made shy by the strangeness of this unused word meant to represent me, and then correct the record.
My First Thriller: Joseph Finder ‹ CrimeReads
How one bestselling author rode the literary roller coaster through rejections and into a career.