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What the butler didn’t see…

By Danny Smith Posted on August 15, 2013 Posted in Extras Tagged with dvdextras

A bit that didn’t make the cut…Danny spends a penny on Swanage pier and drifts away (cert 15).   Hastily, I paid my penny and watched a blur of images until I saw boobs. And after just three days in …

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Pier Review on BBC WM

By Jon Bounds Posted on August 14, 2013 Posted in news Tagged with media

Jon chatted with Adrian Goldberg on BBC WM this morning, here’s what you missed (if you missed it):

Close to the edit

By Jon Bounds Posted on August 10, 2013 Posted in news Tagged with editing

I said we’d have it done before the end of the weekend and we have. Starting at the crack of about half eleven we snuggled in our writing den until two separate 50,000 word plus accounts were hacked into one …

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On writing a book

By Jon Bounds Posted on August 9, 2013 Posted in news Tagged with writing

Writing a book is easy, and also hard. It turns out that the easy bits are also difficult when it comes down to it. The easiest bit is the idea, but it doesn’t stop there: you have to finish what …

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Progress, at last

By Jon Bounds Posted on July 22, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized

These are the graphs from Scrivener (the writing program we both use) that shows that we’ve both now reached the end of the writing of the big old first draft: Celebrations are now ensuing, and we’ll have a proper completed …

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What’s going on?

By Jon Bounds Posted on October 22, 2012 Posted in news

Hello adoring public (we sent this to our email list—subscribe for yerself over on the side…), It’s been a year and a bit since we got back from the maddest, most pointless, road trip ever bumbled along. I know you …

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Saltburny Sea Dogs

By Jon Bounds Posted on July 11, 2012 Posted in news Tagged with saltburn, video

After eight days of sleeping in tents and on floors we reached Saltburn. It was a fresh morning and we were not feeling our best (probably). All the better to be perked up by being interviewed about our quest for …

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A Pier Review Xmas story

By Jon Bounds Posted on December 25, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized

It’s not cannon, and it’s not true. But here’s a little festive short story for you: Pirates of Clacton [PDF] Pirates of Clacton [RTF] Pirates of Clacton [epub]  

Have a look at what you could have won

By Jon Bounds Posted on October 11, 2011 Posted in news

We’re a good few thousand words into what will become Pier Review: the book, but to keep you interested (and to hopefully make sure that you sign up to our email or Twitter or something) here’s a quick look at …

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Home again home again

By Jon Bounds Posted on September 24, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized

After pushing the car to start it in Cardiff, and being too frightened to stop until we reached home even to buy water or food, we for some reason took A roads home up to Gloucester. In pure synchronicity the radio kicked into PJ Harvey’s The Last…

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