Several months later than I envisaged, The Getaway is finally going live on Amazon on Feb 12, 2018. Thank you to those newsletter subscribers who took advantage of my pre-release offer and thanks to everyone else who buys the book in the future. I can say without any fear of contradiction there is blood, sweat …
Far be it from me to write anything about Brexit but a major publisher has pointed out that post-Brexit (I shudder just typing the phrase), the UK will no longer have the same rights over the English language as it did before the UK voted to stab itself in the eye repeatedly until dead. How …
I don’t want to spread fear and panic across the Internet – and I surely won’t – but hot news from the UK’s Arts Council is that sales of literary fiction are down. The reason? People prefer Candy Crush. Seriously. Literary fiction is difficult and costly and people prefer to play cheaper games on their …
Another year may have started but at the tail of end of 2017, we received another article on the lack of diversity in publishing – this time focused on the UK. I mention this because I would like to see greater diversity in diversity articles. They are all the same: statistics showing that white middle-class …
I purposefully did not post towards the end of December 2017 because I figured people had better things to do with their time than read my letters from the dark side: like eating to excess, opening presents, watching a large amount of TV. Oh and reading, of course. Well, now we are the other side …
The world’s best known game-changer in online purchases is hitting the Australian shores. Now any sensible comment by myself on this topic will clearly be conflicted which is why I mention this fact upfront. I write books and publish them on the Amazon platform so I am a client of the giant retailer. If other …
Always lovely to get any insight into life at the US President’s house – and the great thing is that there are official publicity shots. Now I wouldn’t want to be the one to ridicule the most powerful man in the world but his own actions do that for me. So thanks to The Guardian …
Analysis of how people use audio books and eBooks enables publishers to understand how readers actually read, according to The Guardian. This is a fabulous state of affairs for those who can access the big data associated with these reading media. For the independent writer, who receives limited slices of data from the major sales …
There is something satisfying in discovering how mediocre literary sex is, reflecting the level of mediocrity of real-world sex – according to The Guardian. The piece includes classic lines like “I might get frostbite on my cock.” The reason I mention the awards is that I am very aware of how hard are sex scenes …
Research just out shows that people believe science fiction comprise a bunch of dumbed down stories, according to The Guardian. Academics have taken the same narrative and presented it in literary and genre forms to test subjects to see how they respond to the same story in a different context. When people read about airlocks …
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