about me

I'm not interested in pitching a novel, just here to read, so you are assured of honest feedback.
If you wish me to clarify any of my comments about your work, then I am more than happy to do so. But if you are just going to be offensive/defensive then, I'm sorry, I cannot help you and the message(s) will be deleted.
If anyone wants to return the favour, then pick one of the books on my bookshelf and back it, because they're worth your vote.
I don't mind spam, but if you don't bother to read my profile, and repeatedly spam me with requests to swap books, then I will award yours one star for being a numpty.
NB. I don't read for pleasure, so don't ask me to check out your book if it doesn't have a hope in hell of being published by Harper Collins.

I originally joined Authonomy at the beta stage, and am now back, looking at pitches, queries and synopses. Happy to critique (almost) all genres.

If you simply want me to back your book without reading it, I can be bribed with pie: http://hummingbirdbakery.com/pies/

favourite books

Too many to count, but off the top of my head:
Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers
Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now
Neil Gaiman's Stardust
Arnaldur Indridason's Silence of the Grave
Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy
Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
David Guterson's Snow Falling On Cedars
Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves
Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing Script Books
Giles Milton's Nathaniel's Nutmeg; Samurai William
Anything by Deric Longden
Anything by Fannie Flagg
Anything by Susanna Clarke
JK Rowling's Harry Potter series
Derek Landy's Skulduggary Pleasant series
Nick Hornby's About A Boy; Slam
Sol Stein's Solutions for Novelists
Peter Ackroyd's Thames
Dava Sobel's Longitude
Philip Mould's Sleepers: The Trail of Lot 163.
Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series
Geraldine McCaughrean's Scarlet
Paul Magrs' 'Brenda' series
Most of Terry Pratchett's Disc World series
Alan Campbell's Deepgate Codex trilogy
Arthur C. Clarke, Anne Mccaffrey, John Wyndham...

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