Hi. My name's Jim Murdoch. I'm a Scottish poet who somehow blundered into novel writing. It was never part of the plan.

To date I've published two novels, Living with the Truth and Stranger than Fiction and a collection of poetry, This Is Not About What You Think. I'm currently struggling with my fifth novel. I've been struggling with it for three years. I think it's winning.

Since August 2007 I've been writing the blog The Truth About Lies where you can find articles about all things literary along with a weekly book review. Since nothing much happens in my life worth writing about you'll be glad to hear there's precious little extraneous crap. I try to stick to my basic themes. So no articles about how cute my pets are or recipes for haggis or long meanderings through my childhood although I have no problem referencing these kind of things if they are relevant. They're usually not.

Examples of my poems and short stories can be found all over the Web. Just click 'Read' and you'll find some samples.

I hope everything else is fairly self-explanatory so I won't keep you further.

Enjoy.

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