I know it is difficult to get published. I myself went through the classic edition, in other words, for an elephant, through a mouse hole. As I have often said, large publishing houses can be compared to stud farms which already own their racing horses. They only produce very few foals. One or two per year. When we print three...

Receiving a reward for completed work, whatever the work and whatever the reward, is already happiness in itself. But everything depends on the gratification and above all on the quality and words of those who awarded it to you.In this case, after this day of October 22, 2023, I can be satisfied. Besides the fact that the theme that I...

That's it. I have reached the final chapter of the final volume of the BCS investigation saga. There will be no others. I will let my characters lead their paper existence alone. I hope they can live for a long time in the minds of readers. I'm a little sad to give them up. I became sincerely attached to these...

In the novel, a genre that I particularly like (but is there still a novel genre?), the time of the story is the simple past. "We left five hundred and by a prompt reinforcement, we saw three thousand arriving at the port." The present tense of narration is only used on rare occasions, writing in the first person as well....

If the twentieth century opened up new spaces of freedom for written expression, the twenty-first is in the process of reducing them under the pretext of wanting to preserve them. We are witnessing the same phenomenon which followed the invention of printing and political power was already no stranger to it. In France, to fight against the...

The Generative Pre-trained Transformer in English, or the “Transformateur Générique Pré-entraîné” in French, is on the verge of destroying what makes the human race original, its cultural creations. He is the latest avatar of our consumer society by showing and hearing what the public wants without any effort at originality. Hollywood...

I love history and stories. The “story” form suits me perfectly both in terms of reading and writing. I need narrative and description while sometimes mixing in reflection, but I am not very attracted to the outpouring of feelings. For me, the novelistic style has lost all its vigor in favor of introspection. Many current authors have thrown...