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There’s Always Bloody Something
February 5th, 2009 | 
Author: I was asked recently about the tagline to Bouncing Hedgehog – “There’s Always bloody Something.”
“There’s Always Bloody Something” is a memory from my childhood. My father had been in the Royal Air Force or RAF as a navigator with IX Bomber Squadron. When he left the squadron he was given a pewter tankard which bore the official squadron crest which was a bat. Read the rest of this entry »
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Does Anyone In The UK Remember This?
I was talking with my wife the other day about successful authors and a vague memory surfaced. I remember many years ago (1980’s maybe) the Daily Mirror (pretty sure it was them – though I guess it might have been the Sunday Mirror) running an article on a very successful author (whose name completely escapes me) whose works of fiction worked out at about $100 per written word or some such figure like that. Read the rest of this entry »