This from Martin Edward’s blog:
At home, I keep a pile of scripts based on my books. Film scripts, tv scripts, a radio adaptation. All written by seasoned professionals - and they all have one thing in common.
None of them have ever been made.
Martin Edwards is a crime writer, author of the Liverpool-based Harry Devlin [...]



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FT.com has an article on influential blogs, looking at surveys of American, Italian, French, German and UK blogging and some of the differences are interesting and worth noting.
While technology, business and politics dominate the overall rankings, personal diary-style blogs are far more popular in Europe, accounting for 43 per cent of the top blogs in [...]






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