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Relentless pursuit and a grisly murder. ‘Hide and Seek’ is a fast-paced thriller set in Stirling Castle and more widely across Scotland during World War Two. It uses many real settings, transported eight decades back in time.

This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum that has similarities to one visited in Perthshire by two of the central characters in the book.

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This modern image shows a recreation of a Travellers’ camp at the Highland Folk Museum. There’s a cart in the foreground with a hooped tent beyond it, covered by a green tarpaulin, standing in a woodland clearing. The front cover of ‘Hide and Seek’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

As I get older, I'm getting less grumpy. Except about fantasy books. Maybe unreasonable to want some depth, but when it shows up, I love it. Otherwise, DNF.

I find myself less and less able to invest in a book that progresses only along the lines of: Weird background; something weird happens; something bad happens; situation resolved by magic/weirdness/special powers; repeat. No particular human depth or insight into actual human condition.

Suggestions? (I know about Le Guinn)

One of the many hats I wear is that of book formatter. As an indie author/press, it made sense to do it for myself, and now I do it for other folks too. :)

Need a re-release formatted? Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and do formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

Help Y Gath Gosh find a book, challenge time. I had a favourite YA novel in the late 80s, I can’t remember the author’s name or the title. I do however remember this much: There was a male character called Felix who had a beard and a motorcycle helmet. The female protagonist had left home and moved into a bedsit on the top floor of a house while she was in sixth form college, and she had really curly hair. The author’s name *may* be June, but that’s all I’ve got. Anyone?

Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But after her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

https://flip.it/cbERa2

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