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Mike Robbins:
In Nine Horizons are these your experiences? Did you write the book from memory or did you take notes or write a journal at the time?
Mike Robbins
They are my experiences, yes. Although it's not an autobiography as such, everything in the book happened.
The book was written from memory - but some parts of it were written very soon after the event. The Sudan chapter was adapted from another book, Even the Dead are Coming, which was written only a year after I returned to England, and Oil in Greeneland within a few months of the journey. But the chapter about Syria was written 15 years after I left the country.
The book was written from memory - but some parts of it were written very soon after the event. The Sudan chapter was adapted from another book, Even the Dead are Coming, which was written only a year after I returned to England, and Oil in Greeneland within a few months of the journey. But the chapter about Syria was written 15 years after I left the country.
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Jason Howell
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Mike, I'm asking this of several writers, some friends, some strangers... Follower counts, blog traffic, Amazon rankings: vanity metrics. Numbers that have cosmetic value, but aren't necessarily meaningful in and of themselves. Have you ever found yourself chasing these numbers just to run up the score? Or does comparing yourself with peers who appear to be "winning" ever become a problem? How do you deal? Thanks.
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