Stephen Lean

The blog post below appeared briefly on indie publisher JA Konrath’s blog, but has now disappeared. It was written by successful thriller writer Stephen Leather. Methinks a few feathers may have been ruffled!
Edit: It must have been a glitch because it’s back now. Apologies for the wrongful assertion. See it here

Here’s what Leather had to say:    Read more »

As writers, we all have our doubts about whether we’re good enough to compete in our chosen genre.

So we keep our initial pathetic attempts at plotting, description and dialogue to ourselves, fearful of exposing ourselves to the criticism and/or judgement of our peers.

But sooner or later we have to stand up and say, “Hello world, this is me, I am a novelist. I am writing a novel and it will be published.”    Read more »