MIKE SHACKLE on the Importance of Notebooks (and ambition)

This month’s special guest Mike Shackle reveals how he knows when to start working on a project…

TRANSCRIPT

MARK: What’s the thing that makes you think you’re ready to start writing on a project?
MIKE: I have lists of ideas that I want to write that go back years. I write a Witchfinder, I write a Michael Dylan book. Right now it’s the Witchfinder. I should be writing a fantasy
for the next couple of months. It’s like a little production line, but I have all these notebooks everywhere with different things that I’m working on, just so I can keep the ideas straight in my head. With the books that I write, my ambitions, and what I want to write. I they push me on and they’re the devil on my back, but they’re also the cheerleader saying, you can do it.

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The Holly King is 99p on Kindle

Yes, that’s right The Holly King is a mere 99p over the festive season! Treat yourself now…

The Importance of Friendship for Authors

This month’s special guest Mike Shackle reveals the small thing that made a big difference to his creative process…

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Join GB Ralph on the next Livestream

G B Ralph, Monday 9th December 2024, 8pm GMT

G B Ralph is a Kiwi author of cosy mysteries and romantic comedies. His writing features chaotic yet lovable characters getting into trouble, an astonishing amount of crime, and handsome men falling for each other.

He’s currently documenting the increasingly implausible series of murders sweeping an enchanting small New Zealand town in The Milverton Mysteries, once described as “Agatha Christie, but make it gay.”

I hope you can join us live! It’s the last livestream of the year, and things might get festive… which basically means I might wear a Santa hat. Don’t get too excited. About that. Definitely get excited about meeting GB Ralph!!

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Mike Shackle and the Squeaky Toy of Doom

I’m joined by Mike Shackle, author of the epic LAST WAR fantasy trilogy, and he also writes thrillers under the name Michael Dylan: we talk about the perils of writing epic fantasy when publishers are imposing word limits, the pros and cons of self publishing and traditional publishing, writing cop thriller fiction, setting a mission statement for each book, and Michael creating his own artwork! 
And we’re also joined by Buddy. Who has a squeaky toy that has an urgent message for the world…

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LINKS

THE LAST WAR TRILOGY
THE WITCHFINDER CHRONICLES
MICHAEL DYLAN’S DI SIMON WISE THRILLERS
MIKE SHACKLE’S ART
REBECCA MILLAR EDITORIAL
ANDREW CHAPMAN (REMEMBER HIS NAME)
PRIMAL SCREAM: COME AHEAD
FURY OF THE GODS BY JOHN GWYNNE
DAY OF THE JACKAL ON SKY UK
NAUTILUS on Amazon Prime UK
THE PALIN DIARIES 1999-2009
BOBBY DAZZLE

Edit by Kai Newton
Production assistance by Emily Stay
Jingle by Dom Currie

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