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Propaganda of the day from Shaun’s self-marketing department.

“You have no right to change someone else’s opinion, no matter how offensive or incorrect you believe it to be.”

  • “Genesis” – the birth of a new character and a new pen name.

    “Genesis” – the birth of a new character and a new pen name.

    When I thought about writing a detective novel, a police procedural, I wanted to write something different. I didn’t want to write about a divorced police detective with a drinking problem – I’ve already written too many characters with drinking Read more

  • England’s Pleasant Pastures

    England’s Pleasant Pastures

    In the late 1990s, I wrote a 150,000 word manuscript called “Dark Satanic Mills” set slightly in the future and based around a civil war in the UK. Though the first draft was completed, I didn’t do anything else with Read more

  • Welcome to the new site – intentions for the future.

    Yes, I know, this seems to happen with alarming regularity. I have a website, it works for a year, and then it stops working. Call it “not getting around to renewing the site”. So this is the new virtual home for me. Shaunstafford.blog. So we’re already in the third month of 2023 and still no… Read more

  • For My Mother

    For My Mother

    For My Mother[1] Today, I tried to think of the things you did for meWhen I was young, the times when I needed helpWhen I couldn’t do things for myselfI thought of the times when you told me offBecause I’d Read more

  • Characters

    When I write a character, I generally have this person in my head, what he looks like, how he acts, what his personality is like. They usually become my best friends. Rob Murgatroyd, Benjamin Beerenwinkel, Saul Castle, even Alex Savage. Some say that there is something of me in every one of the lead characters… Read more

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