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If you are a writer, then write original stuff.

Writing as an ex-police officer, you really do not want to know. Your best bet is to read Kathy Reichs.

Don't panic about length. I get the impression that publishers would rather take a risk on publishing 50,000 words than 150,000.

I always use Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. Just remember that there are people out there after your money.

You must put this book in context. It was published postumously, in 1925 (84 years ago!), between the World Wars. Franz Kafka suffered from tubercolosis and he was Jewish - need I say more? Such books have to be read with the mind of the reader pushed back to the age of the writer, not as if...

Everyone is after your money...

Not a trilogy, no. Just try to get one book published, the shorter the better.

Pig in a Poke. If you don't know what that is, Google it.

NEVER. Let him buy a copy when it is published. I have the same problem with my wife. We have been married for umpteen years and we love each other to bits, but there is no way she could ever give a truly independent opinion about my writing. She has told me she wouldn't want to, that she would...

Hey, no, Libra! Just needed something to say in the newbies bit. You have Chocky as signature. Many years since I read it. But I loved it. It's still on my bookshelf.

If you had asked me what I am reading at the moment, I would have had to admit that it is the Haynes Manual 'Build Your Own Website". For lighter relief I'm 1/4 way through Terry Pratchett's 'Unseen Academicals'.

I suspect that like many of you, I am seldom without a novel. I tend to stick with a few favourite authors, but branch out to others now and then when I have read all their published books. Favourites are Kathy Reichs, Robert Harris, John LeCarre, Lee Child, Ian Rankin etc.

Looks like a good forum - between 10 and 20 new members every month!