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“Where Do You Get Your Ideas?” How Travel Inspires My Thriller Novels With J.F.Penn

In this video, I explain how I get my story ideas from travel — from how I decide to go…

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7 Unusual Places To Visit In San Francisco

In many ways, San Francisco is a high-tech city, with Silicon Valley just down the road, Twitter on Market Street…

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15 Strange Underwater Places

I first learned to scuba dive on the West Coast of Australia and have spent a lot of time diving…

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The Hereford Mappa Mundi: A World Off The Edge Of The Map

My fascination with maps and cartography led me to research and write Map of Shadows, which features the Mapwalkers, who…

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The Hidden Side Of Strange And Unusual Bath, England

I've been living in Bath for several years now, and although on the surface, it seems like a genteel little…

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14 Weird And Wonderful Places To See In Spain

Spain is one of my favorite places, somewhere I return to over and over again. I particularly love the Sagrada…

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12 Of The World’s Best Anatomical Museums

When you book a trip to a new city, thoughts turn to popular attractions or places you might like to…

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10 Beautiful And Unusual Places To Visit In Venice

Venice is naturally a strange place to visit. Rising out of the Adriatic Sea, the city comprises 118 islands, connected…

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13 Of The Most Mysterious Places In India

India is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, as well as having a deep cultural history with Christianity,…

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Action Adventure, Demons, And Traveling For Research. Meet the Thriller Author with J.F. Penn

I was recently interviewed on Meet The Thriller Author with Alan Petersen about the ideas behind my thrillers and my…

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