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Goodreads asked Tim Butcher:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Tim Butcher Control. One runs one's agenda. One does not run around a treadmill set by someone else.
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Tom Smitha
Tom Smitha asked Tim Butcher:

Tim, I will have to read your book on the assassin who "started" WWI. My grandfather was in that war, on a ship, the US Mount Vernon, that was torpedoed off France in 1918. Your Liberia book was very good. I read it just after my second reading of Journey Without Maps. Great contrast.

Recato
Recato asked Tim Butcher:

Harry is asking a good question. I have joined the hiking thing now. Did the Desert and Bush Walk in Botswana last weekend. I cant imagine how you could carry all your provisions when my backpack is bigger then me. By the way I am available for your next book... Question mark added?

Oudenos Pb
Oudenos Pb asked Tim Butcher:

hi tim, how are you? please notice that i'm the translator of 2 of your books into italian: 'blood river' and 'chasing the devil'. i liked your books, and me too, i'm a writer of travel books, like you! a hug paolo brovelli

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