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What are you currently reading?
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New boy and a question
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New boy and a question
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the reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.
First person monologue from an upper middle class Pakistani who went to Princeton and gets a top drawer job. 911 comes along and his cosy Western world experience is shattered. I read it from the perspe…
Wow, this is a really excellent response.
Armor - agreed - idiots agreed. Begs the question why go there? What is a filtered critique? One you pay for presumably. Thanks for the response
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I agree regarding some people's opinions. I have had some helpful pointers but I noticed - given that we can see other's mistakes better than we see our own - where trading reviews is concerned, you can go back and find they have ignored com…
Agreed, I have used some sites to post work that has been in the trunk for a long long time. If I get possitive feedback, I re-write and submit, but most of the time it goes back to collecting dust. One of the better sites for feedback is www.absolu…
This might be a better place for that. http://reviewabook.ning.com/. Be prepared for a variety of opinions, because Susan's reply is spot on. Before you submit it to an unfiltered critique be sure it is as good as you can get it, then be prepared to…
This isn't a critique site, and in general, I advise against posting work that hasn't been signed to a publisher in the public domain. Some contracts specifically forbid posting a contracted work online, or posting more than a certain number of word…
I don't think this is a critique site. Sometimes people comment on short pieces. You might scour about a bit for critique groups. They are sometimes very useful.
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I was joking about agents being neither published nor represented. Straightforward question is - do you critique, advise etc and, if so, do i put it on the blog?
The Blog section is full of blatant self promotion. No sure if any of it works. Also not sure if there are guidelines against posting large chunks of text. Mind you, people have posted short pieces asking for input.
Are you published? Are you asking…
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I seem to be on a site with distinguished published people What's an agent?
How the UK Royal Mail is suffering in view of the huge amount of paper en route to slush piles is a mystery to me.
Crime then. I have a speculative thriller within whi…
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- Hometown:
- Stamford
- About Me:
- Struggling unpublished - have a 90,000 speculative fiction thriller on slushpiles various. Not a crime novel but it has criminals and police in it - wasting time on competitions and review sites
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Midnight Folk - John Masefield
Lyonesse - Jack Vance
John le Carre, Iain M Banks Patrick o'Brian
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- QI
HIGNFY
Masterchef
Dark Knight - Apocalypse Now - Deerhunter
Blade Runner - Ghost and the Darkness
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