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Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What generic ‘rules’ did you abide by when you started writing that have gone out the window? Being self-taught, I never really had any rules to follow. Grammar … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Do you write under a pseudonym? If so, why? If not, would you ever consider it? Everything I publish is written by someone called Richard Dee. That’s not … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What are your favourite kind of characters to create? To read? I love to create a fish out of water character. By that I mean ordinary people thrust … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What’s the most unusual experience you’ve ever had? Have you included it in one of your books? Having spent a considerable part of my life at sea, I … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Have you ever gone on a literary pilgrimage? If so, where and why? To be honest, the idea has never really appealed to me. Not that I don’t … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book? At first, I … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What are the ethics of writing about historical figures? I must admit, I had a bit of a block with this week’s topic. I’m not a writer of … Continued

Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What are your top five writing mistakes? Either mistakes you make or mistakes that make you cringe when you see them in print? First, some of the ones … Continued