January 2023

Research – or how I ended up creating an entire private school budget

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So there was Belem Knight, hammering away excitedly on bits and pieces of Silverdale Academy, the latest idea that he stole from under my inattentive nose. Then he comes to me this morning, with a good question:  The idea is about an exclusive girls’ finishing school, but have you looked into the economics of such a venture? Could you actually run a school like this in the 2030s in California and actually make a profit? […]

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New Belem Knight novel sample – Silverdale Academy

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Silverdale Academy is a spin-off book from New Society. As is usual, Rupert dreamed up Silverdale, and then Belem rubbed his hands in glee and said “I’m going to write about this place”. So off he went, and was soon typing. Now there is a novel in work. In this prologue from Silverdale Academy, Patrick, until recently a run-of-the-mill, bored primary care physician in South Monterey, heads off to his new primary day job at Silverdale. However, it

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