Jesuit-shaman sex on the eastern steppes of Mongolia. It may sound like an aberration from The Commissioning Meeting (see below) but no, it’s a real book, and a promising candidate for this year’s Bad Sex …
Posts Tagged ‘West Country’
Cryptomnesia
Both Mark Twain and Helen Keller suffered from cryptomnesia. At various times of their lives, they presented writing they clearly believed was original, and were subsequently mortified to be accused of appropriating others’ work. It …
Googazon
It’s another inimitable blend of the profound and the profoundly peculiar this evening: only on Litopia After Dark can we move transcendentally from the works of John Berger to the World Gravy-Wrestling Championships without missing …
The Multi-Branded Victorian Cliche Book Swap Shop
It’s author branding that gets the limelight tonight – one of the hottest topics in publishing at the moment, but what does it really mean? Can an author really be a brand – and how …
A Blow to the Head
So what does it all mean, then? Or to paraphrase, what’s it all about, Author? This week on the world’s favorite podcast for writers we brood over some of life’s greatest imponderables. Should a book …
Dave Bartram
Donna’s regular Litopia After Dark partner-in-crime, Dave lives and works in England’s West Country and is working on a novel for the young adult market. Dave loves science fiction, some fantasy and music of most kinds …
Publishers – Get Your House In Order
It's a cougar-packed show tonight, folks!
Without an equitable distribution of income between authors and publishers, the much-vaunted digital future of publishing will be delayed: perhaps even mortally derailed. That’s one of the many important points …
Age-Related Luddite Moments
It’s been an intense week here in publishing. Publishers Weekly reports that the London Book Fair, just concluded, may have been a bit lower in terms of overall attendance, but those who did show up …
Welcome to OrwellWorld
Today the founders of the world’s biggest copyright-theft website, Pirate Bay, were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty in a Swedish court of promoting copyright infringement.
“Although I dislike seeing any man …
HarperZombie
HarperCollins sheds up to 120 human jobs in New York; who knows what will happen in London? HC’s six month operating income dropped nearly 75 percent, to $26 million from over $100 million previously. Tonight …
Books That Ming
In the UK, the number of new books published last year increased by 4 per cent – nearly 121,000 – as reported by BookBrunch. Does this mean the recession might be good for writing and …
May be Hazardous to Your Health
The fifty-seventh variety of LITOPIA AFTER DARK – the net’s first and foremost writers’ salon – is choc-a-bloc with fragrant surprises… and a few stinkers, too.
We mourn John Updike – the chronicler of middle-class …
What The Heck’s Happening?
That’s right – LITOPIA AFTER DARK is back with a vengeance tonight – with an upgraded format and an in-your-face demeanor (well, if that’s OK with you…). Our attitudinous panel comprises:
Dave Bartram a writer From …
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