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Read my books! Read my books! A brief guide written in hope of attracting new readers.

"You should watch Dexter ," my sister advised me a couple of years ago. "I think you'd really like it." And she was probably right, but I haven't followed her recommendation, even though, in spite of her being the biggest fan of Dexter that I know and therefore perhaps a tiny bit biased, I do trust her opinion. But, alas, I missed the beginning of the series. I find it very difficult to motivate myself to start from the beginning of an established series and go through the motions of catching up, which means Dexter is just one of the many casualties of my impoverished TV viewing diet (although in part it's because I prefer reading/writing to watching TV). I'm guessing I'm not alone in this, and that the same might also be true of any series - TV, films, books - and it's left me in a bit of a quandary that I'm hoping this blog post will address. For the last 7 years I've been writing the Hiding Behind The Couch series. So f