Doctor Who – 50th Anniversary.
I could not let the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who go by without writing a blog post about the greatest science fiction show of all time. I grew up watching the original series, and I remember watching Patrick Troughton, who was the second Doctor. I had nightmares about an episode where that Doctor was investigating […]
ebook Subscription Services.
Two new subscription services for ebooks have recently started: Oyster and Scribd. What is an ebook Subscription Service? A subscriber to Oyster or Scribd is allowed to read, for free, as many ebooks as they like from the selection of ebooks on each site. Oyster claims to have over 100,000 ebooks, and Smashwords is giving […]
Writing Update
Like many writers, I keep track of the number of words I write each day. I have a chart blue-tacked to the wall, with columns for each day and weekly totals. Today I finished filling in the details on yet another page of that chart. When I looked back over the chart, the last four […]
Price Survey of Top 100 ebooks and ibooks.
It’s time for another survey of the prices of the top 100 ebooks and ibooks. Kindle Top 100 prices. Twenty-three ebooks in the top 100 were priced at 99 cents, which is very similar to my last survey in June when 22 ebooks were 99 cents. In January only 14 were priced at 99 cents, […]
Review of True Path, by Graham Storrs.
True Path is either a techno-thriller or a science-fiction thriller, depending on the reader. Whatever label chosen, technology, in the form of time-travel, is a big part of the story. True Path is a sequel to the very good Timesplash, which showed the awesome destructive powers of time-travel. In Timesplash, author Graham Storrs, came up […]
Gravity – a review.
I finally saw Gravity – in 3D too – and I was impressed. The movie is set in orbit around the Earth where a group of astronauts are updating the Hubble Telescope. Unfortunately for them, those irresponsible Russians decide to destroy one of their own satellites and its debris cause havoc. From there on we […]
So Much Pain.
What a lousy week, so much pain. A toothache – of all things – lead an assault by every inflammation in my body. From my swimmer’s knees, tight hamstrings, sore lower back, to my aching elbows and big toes. And to top that off, the eye on the side of the swollen tooth root ached […]
My Two Weeks as a Copywriter.
Seven weeks ago I blogged that I was hopefully embarking on a new career as a copywriter at a local radio station. I thought I was going to be doing a few weeks trial and then they would decide whether to keep me on. That was at least what my job provider told me, but […]
Pens and Prejudice.
I finally got around to watching the Pens and Prejudice episode of First Tuesday Book Club last night. It was a discussion about the perceived prejudice against woman authors. All during the show I had a comment by Germaine Greer in mind. She said male authors tend to write about how the world is, whereas […]
Melboure Writer’s Festival – How they got published.
At the recent Melbourne Writer’s Festival, six of the authors I saw mentioned how they got their book published. Jo Case was asked by a publisher to write her non-fiction book Boomer and Me after the publisher read an article Jo had written about her son’s Asperger’s. Graeme Simsion originally wrote The Rosie Project as […]