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26Sep 2012 by diannagunn

The Best Weapon by Martin Bolton and David Pilling

I originally met Martin Bolton through Musa. One of Urania's many authors, he generously provided me with my first ever guest post, and, even better gave me a copy of his co-written fantasy novel to review. Due to a combination of mountains of homework and other obligations, it took me about two months longer than expected to finish the Best Weapon, but I can say it was certainly worth the wait. The Best Weapon is the story of two brothers created by the 'Lords of Hell' as a last ditch effort to save themselves from an unnamed evil force. These brothers, Naiyar and Fulk, are placed on opposite ends of the planet so they won't draw attention to themselves or discover themselves until the time is right. This book tells…

08Feb 2012 by diannagunn

Guest Post: Martin Bolton on Co-Writing a Novel

Guest Post, Writing

Today I'd like to welcome Martin Bolton, my second guest poster here at Dianna's Writing Den. I hope you'll find this post as interesting as I did. On Co-Writing a Novel When my good friend, David Pilling, and I decided to write a novel together we had no idea where to start. We had both written plenty of stuff individually, but how do you coordinate a dual effort? Before we could think of the actual story, we had to decide how we would both contribute to a book without it being disjointed and difficult to read. After a few decent ales and a good chat, we came up with the idea of a story with two main protagonists who are born on opposite sides of a world, have never met,…