I spent a few of my earlier years as a muso playing the trumpet in a funk and jazz band.I've done the international teaching thing in Japan and lived there for over six years. I've been a salesman, a sound engineer, a cement block maker, a landscape gardener, a pit musician, a postgraduate international recruitment officer, a high school teacher,a trumpet tutor and a whole lot of other things. Now I like writing.

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• Fake! on Dec. 17, 2011
  
  Well that was a good read. It really touches a nerve with me after experiencing first hand the psychological effect that sandbagging can have on you. I recommend this to anyone who is starting out. It may prepare you you for the darker side of this industry and encourage good writers to persist regardless of the dirty tricks that abound. Although I don't agree with his criticism of posting free ebooks (hence the four stars and not five), I think that Murray has done us all a service with this well written and no nonsense attempt at cleansing the web of these practices that threaten to dumb down this craft and squash real talent.