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With the disruptive technologies of digital publishing continuing their shake-up of the traditional publishing industries, the historically egalitarian roots of the digital revolution that gave us the internet and the dot-com boom in the 90's continue to provide opportunities for authors and entrepreneurs with alternative models for publishing - if they have the technical know-how.

The SF author Neal Stephenson whose fictional themes of technology and social reform have produced Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon and the recent Anathem, each work larger and more detailed than the last, has eschewed the current digital...

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my novel's just come out in german, and has just received its first german review (-:

shame i can't read german, but i've been told it's all good (-:(-:(-:

 

Chika Unigwe: Schwarze Schwestern http://bit.ly/9bj58z

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I heard Neil Diamond's September Morn on the radio today, and it always reminds me of a quiet moment years ago.

At that time I was based in Dorset. My wife was pregnant with our third daughter. I worked in a small team, and on that particular day we'd arranged to open up our bar and meet for a drink. I can't remember why it was a quiet day, but there was no one else around. Only us four, with our wives and kids.

My...

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Which major reviewing publication is accused of discrimination? Why the Wylie deal with Random leaves the issue of who owns ebook rights to older books unanswered. And how writers really get paid with traditional and real publishing. Plus, I'm interviewed on preventing workplace violence. These and other headlines are in this week's Write Report.

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The economy is in the toilet and its getting worse – now the toilet’s clogged. People with advanced degrees in economics, and other useless professions whose names currently escape me – maybe because they are, in fact, USELESS - debate, pontificate, argue, and shout and nothing gets fixed because one has clue what the other one is talking about. It has to do with the nomenclature. The idiots who invented all this economic jargon did it on...

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“People like me stand out. Society doesn’t like us - it lets us down at every corner. We’re not protected when we need to be, we’re not forgiven when we deserve to be and we sure as hell aren’t...

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I have a whole bunch of news for you today so this is a triple blog I guess.

Right, first off a big thanks to Kate, aka The Scribbling Seaserpent, my writing bud and fellow Litopian mod for...

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CarolRose
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I started writing a novel in January 2008. I had a germ of an idea and a burning feeling that if I didn't start writing a novel Right This Minute, I would never do it and would one day die old and...

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It all started so well.

TC was doing mathematical stuff in Sixth Form, heavy duty pure and applied. You know the deal, spends 20 seconds staring at the slate when he’s supposed to be...

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worldper

All good things must come to an end - parties don’t last forever, the pay check doesn’t last past Monday of the following week, sex takes less time than a good sneeze, and our children don’t stay...

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Quacker

It's been a busy last few weeks, and the next month or so isn't going to be any quieter. Yesterday saw the finishing touches put to the design and layout for Pocket Rocket, the autobiography of...

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Daniel Spaniel

‘It’s Tuesday, you won’t want any tea?’ hub asks, knowing the answer.
‘Uh, no,’ I mumble grumble, eyes still closed, ‘I’ll have some later when I get back from walking Joey.’
‘You’ll...

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The New Chinese Astrology by Suzanne White
The Complete Book of Astrology by Caitlin Johnstone
The Ultimate Hit Singles Book compiled-by Dave McAleer

I’m building a new WIP...

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I'm blogging today about this book by Debra Dixon:

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It’s Saturday morning and I am awake at 5:45 a.m., and it should be noted that I am irritated, because the whole reason I am awake at this hour is still asleep. This perplexes me. So I enter the...

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