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    Find Another Place, by Ben Graff

    January 18, 2018 /

    One of my clients, Ben Graff, has his first book, Find Another Place, coming out on March 28. I worked with Ben helping him find the structure for the book, which as it says on the cover is: An autobiographical meditation on family, focusing on childhood, parenting, the passage of time, loss, love, faith and memory. I encouraged Ben to dig deeper into himself, writing additional chapters and finding the essence of material, a complex tapestry of autobiography and family history. I’m very proud of the resulting volume, and I know Ben is too. Find Another Place will be published by Troubadour, priced £11.99. Here is the text from the…

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    Gary Dalkin

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    Do It – Cycling Around The World For A Laugh

    August 30, 2016 /

    In May last year Adrian Besly set out to cycle around the world. He kept a diary along the way, and when he came back he wrote a book about his amazing adventures. And then I edited it, and I’m delighted to say that Do It – Cycling Around The World For A Laugh is published this week. A print edition will follow soon. Adrian really has a way with words, and the subtitle is entirely appropriate. Throwaway lines like ‘I have a photo in my wallet of my kids where my money used to be’ regularly made me laugh, and if you find that amusing then this book is…

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Contact

Please email gary.dalkin@live.co.uk or phone 07552 220438. I try to respond to all enquiries before the end of the working day.

Blog Posts

  • A Review Of Improbable Botany
  • Interview – Eric Brown
  • From Warrior Cats to English Detectives
  • Frankenstein – Persuasion – Literary Landscapes Coming In October
  • Just Be Yourself by Ellen M J Deaville Published
  • Debut Children’s Book Raises Money for Blind and Deaf Charities
  • Three Come Along At Once
  • Find Another Place, by Ben Graff
  • NaNoWriMo Blues – What Do I Do Next?
  • Literary Wonderlands – UK edition photos and raffle prizes
  • Improbable Botany – Jonathan Burton Illustration reveal 1
  • Improbable Interviews: Tricia Sullivan
  • Review: The Mysteries, by Lisa Tuttle
  • Improbable Interviews: Eric Brown
  • Improbable Botany interior art by Jonathan Burton
  • Improbable Botany Kickstarter launch
  • Authors for Grenfell Tower critique auction
  • Do It – an interview with RTW cyclist Adrian Besly
  • Mythological landscapes – an interview with Alex CF
  • Literary Wonderlands published today
  • Literary Wonderlands cover
  • Shoreline of Infinity interview with Simon Morden
  • Do It – Cycling Around The World For A Laugh
  • The Conscript
  • Writing Magazine article – What’s It All About?
  • Interviews with Ken MacLeod & Tricia Sullivan
  • Literary Wonderlands again
  • Literary Wonderlands
  • Dead Leaves – award nominated
  • Interview: A Reckoning Writer-Director, Andrew David Barker
  • Book Review: Echoes From The Macabre: Selected Stories, Daphne du Maurier
  • The New Media Writing Prize
  • Daphne du Maurier Country – Rebecca to the Macabre
  • Film Review: Mr. Nobody
  • Cloud Atlas, Skyfall and the McDonald’s-isation of Storytelling
  • Cloud Atlas Shrugged – or let the Skyfall
  • Exploring Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
  • Interview: Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief, Solaris Books
  • Book Review: The Kings of Eternity, Eric Brown
  • They Do Things Differently There
  • Book Review: Falling Over, James Everington
  • Film Review: La Puta y la Bellena
  • Book Review: Night Film, Marisha Pessl
  • Book Review: Stardust, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Spin, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Intrusion, Ken MacLeod
  • The Mirror of Our Dreams
  • Book Review: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Book Review: Joyland, Stephen King
  • Book Review: Microcosmos, Nina Allan
  • Stephen King – A Beginner’s Guide
  • The Invention of Iain M. Banks
  • Book Review: Objects in Dreams, Lisa Tuttle
  • Book Reviews: This Shared Dream & In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • A day with Jane Goodall
  • Some notes on Christopher Priest’s The Islanders
  • interview – Robert Holdstock
  • interview – Christopher Priest
  • Hope For Animals and Their World
  • interview – Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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