This has been the full first week of NanoWriMo writing. I’ve just posted my Day 8 mini-update on NextWord.co.uk if you’re interested? So I’ve been concentrating on that. Not that I’ve been writing that much, if I had I wouldn’t be behind in my word count. Never mind. Will try harder this week. And will [...]
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Comment: More on the “International” Amazon.com Kindle
I had a feeling yesterday that this was going to be messy and I was right!
The messiest bit from mine and your points of view is that at the minute you’re going to be buy an American focused product which Amazon.com will kindly let you use in the UK, and other countries except Canada [...]
Comment: Are people who like SF&F over literature failing to grow-up?
Taking a deep breath and resisting the urge to explain in great detail why both of these comments might be a little silly, it seems to me that they also highlight a key challenge facing SF and Fantasy publishers. Anybody who knows SF and Fantasy knows that both genres incorporate an extraordinary variety of writers; [...]
Comment: Dan Who?
That’s the tagline on twitter – #danwho and it’s not because they’ve never heard of Dan Brown. I think the problem is that there can’t be any person that knows a little about books that hasn’t heard of him.
It is what it is.
Well I for one am very excited by it not matter what my [...]
Comment: I’m also a coward – the lack of scoring of reviews
It’s all James’s fault for dragging me into to this. He mentioned me in his post ‘I’m a coward, apparently…’
Which is his response to the following response in an interview:
HM: Reading your reviews I come across a very peculiar ranking system of 100 points that always aroused questions. What’s the deal behind it and what [...]
Catch Up and Comment: RSS Feed Reading and Twiiter
I must admit that after two weeks at sea in early August with relaxation and lack of instant internet access I’ve not been that keen on checking on the actions of my fellow bloggers. This isn’t from any inherent dissatisfaction with any of them. But more that I realised that I’ve got quite enough books [...]
Comment: Blogroll and RSS update
I’m feeling like I need a bit of a shake-up in the blogs I follow. This partly comes down to taking a blog break in August and then seeing all the wonderful stuff that I’d missed and things that were no longer me.
So I deleted all my RSS feeds. I’ve kept them and will [...]
Comment: SEVEN ESSENTIAL FANTASY READS: GOING TO SECOND BASE from The New Yorker
Seven Essential Fantasy Reads: Going to Second Base: The Book Bench : The New Yorker
I’ve read a few best-selling fantasy series—Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, Twilight, Narnia, A Wrinkle in Time, The Dark Is Rising—but I would never describe myself as an aficionado. First because all these books are on [...]
Update: Holiday Reads
That’s the picture of my shelf in my cabin. I filled it. Not that I intended to. I just couldn’t decide what to take. In the end I didn’t manage to get through them all.
I did finish three and got started on a few more. I’ll have full reviews of those I’ve read and the [...]
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Comment: iPhone and ebooks
I haven’t talked about ebooks for a while. I do on the whole think that ebooks are a wonderful idea. I’m more than happy with my Sony Reader 505 (SR) that I had for Christmas last year. And since I’ve had it I’ve bought 13 books for it, which isn’t bad considering that I have [...]