Jim Webster
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Born
Barrow in Furness, The United Kingdom
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The author I owe most to is Jack Vance.
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May 2012
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Justice 4.1 (Tsarina Sector, #1)
5 editions
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2014
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The Cartographer's Apprentice: Leave Them Wanting More
5 editions
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2013
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Sometimes I sits and thinks
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Swords for a Dead Lady
9 editions
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2011
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Flotsam or Jetsam
3 editions
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2015
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And sometimes I just sits?
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A Much Arranged Marriage
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Tomb-yard Follies
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The Flames of the City
5 editions
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2012
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Swimming for Profit and Pleasure
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Absolutely nothing. I've never spent money on advertising because I've never been shown any evidence for it reliably working for indie books :-)
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I have seen communities form back on usenet but the trolls seemed to inevitably destroy them given time.
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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
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Yes it's got to the stage where we no longer deal with BT on line because we get so much plishing email claiming to be from them. Given they are the o
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"This is a short story as an introduction to a series. I found the writing style rather pedestrian and had a few problems with the story. Given the enormous pressure on the police force to direct scarce resources to best use, I couldn't believe that n"
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"I don't seem to be lucky with novels about female cops or FBI agents. Usually, they are portrayed as having a short fuse and acting foolishly out of a misguided attitude that to ask for help is showing weakness. So I found the protagonist Sydney Merl"
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"A very thorough account of the devastating accident at a nuclear power station in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, beginning with the political and scientific context, the background history of the plant manager and the cover up of previous ac"
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War:
"This was a different type of zombie 'novel'. It is told as a series of interviews with survivors of a global zombie 'war': the World War Z of the title. The possible lack of suspense, given that the survivors obviously live to tell the tale, and soci"
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Another cracking story. Far too often I put off reading fiction because so I can be so often disappointed. Also the author has set herself such a high standard, it is so easy to fall short. But in this case I was disciplined. I finished the book I was ...more |
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