Enjoy Books Better with VOXLIT : A choice of articles, advice and reviews from the Voice of Literature 2018

In November 2017, I published the first issue of the on-line magazine The Voice of Literature on www.voxlit.com.

I had had the idea of bringing together ideas and advice that would benefit both readers and writers of all kinds of books, but especially fiction. By sharing news on publishing, my ideas on the writing process, book reviews, excerpts from my own writing, I hoped to give readers an additional insight into the ways of working of the writers who produce the books they read. I also hoped to help authors think in new ways about what they do, and thereby encourage them to develop as writers.

In this little free book I have republished some of my own articles from the magazine. It brings together in one volume various articles that were previously only available separately. Readers may find it more useful seeing them all together in one place and the cumulative message behind them may be more apparent.

Reading and writing are both intrinsically solitary activities. But communication is perhaps the ultimate shared process. We communicate best when we understand each other well, and the Voice of Literature e-zine and its offspring, the modest work you are now reading, it mu humble contribution to the understanding between the players in the world of books.

JAMES GAULT has written four novels, all available on Amazon as e-books and paperbacks:
His latest novel, Best Intelligence, is a detective thriller set in Glasgow, France and Spain.
Other novels:
Teaching Tania (Young Tania tries to put the world to rights with the help of her English teacher - a comic detective story)
Ogg (Supernatural being tries to teach teenage Antonia how to think rationally as they try to save the world from destruction - comic philosophical thriller)
The Redemption of Anna Petrovna (Young woman in ex-communist country tries to build a career in a totally corrupt society - political psychological thriller
In 2007, he won the writing prize from the British Czech and Slovak Society for his short story 'Old Honza's Day Out'.