I came home from Magnetic Island just in time for trimester 3 at uni and also to find how I’d been successful in my application to be a volunteer at the Independent Publishing Conference at the Wheeler Centre. It was fabulous fun. The first day was student day. If your application for ...

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Blogger is sued Jeffrey Beall is a blogger who keeps track of those publishers who have been less than ethical and have taken money to say articles have been published, it’s not entirely clear if those articles have actually been published and are available for purchase or viewing but it’s ...

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I came across this rather strange acronym looking rather like NaNoWriMo this week, it was imperative I look it up. They are both interesting words, NaNoWriMo means National November Writing Month while NaBloPoMo is the same but to do with writing blog posts. NaNoWriMo is all about stretching yourself as ...

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I wrote this post eight days ago and I’ve just noticed it wasn’t published. I’m not going to waste a perfectly good post so you’re getting it now. I’ve learnt a lesson with the Census.  It doesn’t matter how good people think you are and how confident you are you ...

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