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Do Not Walk on the Water
Part of my summer reading list this year was an historical novel set in the recently decolonized countries of sub-Saharan Africa called Eland Dances by Philip van Wulven. It was a quick and pretty fun read. I also read an in-depth and thought-provoking review of an English translation of another historical novel (The Dream of [...]
The gods favor us
When I first read the title of Will Gompertz’s entertaining piece on the BBC a couple of weeks ago (‘The “mummy porn” author and the suburban bookshop’), I thought to myself, ‘Mummy porn? I can imagine undead vampire sex but mummies…’ Then I of course realized that I was being an idiot and it was [...]
The sound of your own voice
It had never even occurred to me to have an audiobook version for one, or all, of my books, so when I stumbled across this I was quite surprised. In hindsight I guess I shouldn’t have been so taken aback; since all the other aspects of publication are now open to self-pubbers it only makes [...]
Writing with a purpose
After reading and thinking a lot about Paul’s last couple of posts on the writing game (part 1 and part 2), I find myself returning to the question of what motivates us to write. As you probably all know from the trad-pubbed anonymous mid-list author’s piece, the tale that she told was one that started [...]
Money matters
I recently got an email from CreateSpace on an update to their royalty payment terms, but before going into what the changes are and what they may mean for potential CreateSpace users, let’s take a quick look at how CreateSpace pays royalties generally. As I briefly explained in a post on another topic, during the [...]
Top of the pops
I read a brief allusion by an editor recently buried in the middle of a piece on something else about how her novelist friend’s publisher suggested that her next book be a memoir because they thought it would sell better. I have no idea what the details involved were, or even how true the anecdote [...]
24-hour writing people
Striving for the apex of nerdiness as I am, I like to read the London Review of Books. (Well, in my defense, I only have a trial subscription right now, but I may renew). In the most recent issue there is a piece by Brian Dillon, author and UK editor of Cabinet magazine. His description [...]
I don’t want to talk about it…
As many of our long-term readers have no doubt picked up on, I’m not a big fan of Japanese TV and so prefer to unwind with a video instead. And as I’m sure you’ve also picked up on, videos come pretty late to Japan, so it was only recently that I saw the movie Limitless, [...]
This has got nothing to do with George by Andrew Oberg