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A Healthy Dose of Horror – Book Review of ‘The Black Land’ by M. J. Wesolowski

Posted on November 2, 2013 by J. S. Collyer

When I first started reading this novella I said how the atmosphere was ‘already thick enough to carve chunks out of with a machete’. Well, it didn’t let up. The Black Land is the debut novella of M. J. Wesolowski … Continue reading →

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Picture Perfect

Posted on June 4, 2013 by J. S. Collyer

They say a picture paints a thousand words. Ideally, as fiction writers we don’t literally want to be using a thousand words to set a backdrop in our narrative. However, a well-realised setting can go a long way to firing the reader’s imagination. … Continue reading →