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I have two novels published hardback and paperback by Hodder & Stoughton - The Short Cut and Man On A Murder Cycle. I live on the Murcian coast of Spain with my beautiful wife and daughter. For the past five years I have been working in corporate intelligence for some of the largest companies in the world.

LinkedOut?

Facebook on Wednesday announced its IPO. ‘Twas but a matter of time. Mark Zuckerberg is set to personally earn between $21 and $28 billion from it. Billion. Of course billion. He hasn’t spoken about mere millions in many a year. Million schmillion. It would be churlish to knock the guy. He took an idea (it [...]

February 05, 2012 | Mark Pepper | Comments 4
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Uuurgonomics

Uuurgonomics

Someone I know – we’ll call her Miss X – told me a story a few days ago. This person’s best friend – we’ll call her Malingering Twat – has been swinging the lead on her job for years, claiming all manner of mysterious ailments that no medical practitioner can diagnose. She has been on [...]

January 28, 2012 | Mark Pepper | Comments 3
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Desk Potato

Apparently, although I suspect it’s something of a contradiction in terms, I am a hard-working couch potato. Well, probably not a couch potato because I sit at my desk to work. So a desk-chair potato. This must be true because when it becomes my time to vacuum the house and my wife unsubtly rolls the [...]

January 19, 2012 | Mark Pepper | Comments 9
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Write What You Know (You Can Get Away With)

So, just pop it into a preheated oven and cook at gas mark 7 for an hour. That’s what I’d do to cookery books. I appreciate that book-burning on such a grand scale is frowned upon in polite circles, but I don’t really move in polite circles so I’m not that bothered. The fascination with [...]

January 14, 2012 | Mark Pepper | Comments 2
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The Guilt of Freelance Writing

The Guilt of Freelance Writing

For someone who calls himself a freelance writer, I do precious little freelance writing these days. My other work and life in general gets in the way. I don’t feel too bad about that in terms of not being a jobbing freelance writer any more, because I’m still earning a wage, but I do sometimes [...]

January 07, 2012 | Mark Pepper | Comments 6
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Ripp(off)ing Yarns

Ripp(off)ing Yarns

As a follow-up to my last blog and to an earlier one on e-books, I have another tale from The Wall Street Journal, which is throwing a rotten mince pie in the face of all those looking forward to their new Kindle this Christmas. In a recent article, E-Book Readers Face Sticker Shock, the Journal [...]

December 24, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 0
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Apple Bites Amazon

Apple Bites Amazon

I read with disappointment but no great surprise (nothing about big business surprises me any more) two stories in The Wall Street Journal last week. On the 7th we had EU Launches E-Book Pricing Probe, then the next day appeared Justice Department Confirms E-Book Pricing Probe. Of course, there may be nothing to this, but I’m [...]

December 11, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 0
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Shoulda stuck to rapping

Talent May Not Out

I expect you’ve heard of the expression “talent will out”. It’s linked most strongly with the acting profession. It’s the sort of encouraging guff you say to someone who is struggling but truly deserves to make it. It basically means – if they carry on acting – their talent is so great it will at [...]

November 27, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 3
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You’re So Vain …

I remember a time when authors who self-published were a bit of a laughing stock. They paid a printing company to run off a certain number of their books, getting a cheaper-per-book rate for a larger print run, but essentially paying in the thousands for the privilege of finally holding a bound copy of their [...]

November 21, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 2
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This woman is not "slow"; she is a fuckwit

Freelance My Ass

I don’t have much time for euphemisms. I’m fairly straight-talking and thus like to speak and hear things as they are meant to be spoken and heard. Your writing style may be different to mine, and certain projects will not allow for on-the-nail writing no matter who you are, but my favourite newspaper articles can [...]

November 16, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 10
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FYI

FYI

Reading through my fan mail the other day, I saw a letter requesting that I address the subject of acronyms. That, of course, is complete BS and I expect many of you will be wishing I would just STFU. I don’t have any fan mail. Actually, quite the opposite; I am currently stalking several well-known [...]

October 29, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 2
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Broadly Speaking

It’s been some time since I handled a real paper version of a newspaper. I read a lot of news but all of it online. It has been an even longer time since I tackled a broadsheet. One entered our house the other day, though, so I thought I’d give it a go. Whose daft [...]

October 21, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 0
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Pocket Lenses

Pocket Lenses

The older I get, the more easily I am annoyed by little things. My wife has said that many times, but I’m sure I have no idea what she’s referring to. Anyway, I have seen over the past few months several email messages wherein the sender has said they will be “out of pocket” for [...]

October 14, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 4
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Amoebas

Who out there is ambitious about their writing? Who wants to write a blockbuster novel or pen a Hollywood screenplay? I don’t expect anyone will admit to it. That’s okay, I get it. No one really wants to engage when the topic of ambition rears its ugly head. It all seems a bit seedy and [...]

October 09, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 4
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It’s a No From Me

The silly season is upon us. The X-Factor USA – the most potent argument ever for gun control – hit our screens last week. Lord, I hope these people are put through a metal detector before they are put before the judges. They are insane. Even most of the talented ones are insane; they’re just [...]

September 30, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 2
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Mightier Than The Email

Mightier Than The Email

I have a website called markpepper.com, yet when I search for “Mark Pepper” I don’t even come out on page 1 of Google. If I searched for “freelance writer”, I think I would probably die of old age before I came across my website. Having a website is essential for any freelance writer, but people [...]

September 24, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 3
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You Could Be A Contender

You Could Be A Contender

I’ve been blogging here for nearly 2 years now and for the past 18 months I’ve been pleasantly surprised, if not downright shocked, that I’ve found anything to write about. Writing about freelance writing is really a finite proposition. You can keep tweaking earlier articles, adding new slants and what you believe are fresh gems [...]

September 12, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 0
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WWW – Wanton Waste of Words

WWW – Wanton Waste of Words

First of all, that’s nice alliteration, huh? Anyway, I stumbled across a couple of study reports in my regular daily rounds and couldn’t quite believe anyone would need to know the information contained therein. Well, it’s all good to know, but, unless you’re an idiot, you really should know it already. On the plus side, [...]

August 27, 2011 | Mark Pepper | Comments 3
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