There are a couple of people who don’t fit into any category so they get an article to themselves with a few final words. Digital Dreaming by R. L. Black I was originally attracted by the typewriter, it’s a thing of sheer beauty and such amazing engineering but then I stood ...
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." C.S. Lewis
Est. 2009
As promised here are some words about the support personnel I met at the Book Expo. I suspect I could get entire articles using some of what I’ve written here and each article would only scratch the surface. BookaBuy The lovely people at BookaBuy. Remember when I wrote about Book Clubs? ...
One of the things I’m finding is that it’s not only what you know but who you know that can get you a job. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago while talking to a friend so I asked her to write me an article, pleasantly surprised to find ...
Sandi threatened to write something for me so long ago we’d almost both forgotten about it, when she unearthed the thoughts she sent me through the following screed about her book talking about cystic fibrosis. Why did you write The Mystery of the Sixty Five Roses? There are several reasons why ...
Early this year I made the decision to go back to study. The goal was to attend university for the very first time and complete a Bachelor of Arts. Knowing it was rather late in the enrolment process I checked Monash Uni’s website fairly thoroughly and emailed through a question. The ...
You’re probably looking at the title of this article and wondering what’s happening what’s happening in the Star Trek Universe and what exciting movie/book spin off/ merchandise is available now. This is not really official Trekkie stuff but some unofficial fan movie type stuff. They’re at the end of their ...
Today has been a struggle to find something to write about. I have ideas for articles but need to leave them to fester in my brain a bit and also do some research, I have to find a male science fiction author for tomorrow starting with J but that’ll be easy and ...
Damian shared this jpg this week and it got me thinking. Thank you to Patricia McLinn for the image Then I read this article on Amazon and their delivery drones and this article on the future of used ebooks. It got me thinking more, much more. If you believe the jpg then ...
I’ve been sitting on these thoughts for some months hoping I could stop disagreeing but it turns out I can’t. This article tells us we should segregate Indie published books from traditionally published books. The article is click bait, I totally understand that and I clicked just like so many others. ...
Not sure why people would take the time to pirate an ebook? Just to start off we’re not talking about taking a book and laboriously rewriting it with some changed words or concepts, not even copying everything to a word processing programme and using the search and replace function to replace ...
Some of you have noticed I’ve added affiliate marketing into this blog. It’s interesting how I’ve come full circle from using this blog to support selling on this website to now selling books to support the blog. For those new to this story this is what happened. I started selling ...
Just a few of the articles I’ve been reading recently. This one is about cover art and gives more detail and is better all round than my article which you can re-read, or not, as you choose. They’ve used the latest Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as an example. Their thinking ...
My understanding of copyright on the web is that as soon as you publish something whether it be words or image it is then copyrighted and it’s then an offense to reuse it on your own blog. Some people are happy for you to reuse their works so long as you ...
I’m sure there are festivals for writers throughout the world but I’m only focussing on four of them today. The one I’ve been trying to get to every year since I first heard of it is the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. Running from 21st August to the 31st August you’ve still got time ...
You know those times when you can’t find something to say you have two options: to either not say anything or to make it up and lie like a trooper. I’m taking a third option and talking about my time as a blogger. Tomorrow will be my fifth anniversary, I ...