Ebook Price Survey.
Ebook Prices. Another seven weeks have passed since I last checked the prices of Amazon’s 100 best-selling ebooks. The trend of ebooks becoming dearer, that I reported in August, seems to have stabilised. At the lower prices, six ebooks were 99c as compared to seven at that price in August and three in June. This […]
My Writing Stats and a New Article on Divine.
Writing Stats. Like many men, I am fascinated by statistics. One of the ways I display this fascination is by keeping a record of the number of words I write each day. This record includes both fiction writing and the writing of articles for the Divine website. Recently I checked my word count record […]
The Ten Best Apocalyptic Novels I Have Read.
I finished reading Justin Cronin’s apocalyptic vampire novel The Passage a week ago. It is a brilliant novel in both the way it is written and the story. Cronin introduces dozens of characters, each with individual fears and problems that make them easy to empathise with. The Passage is one of the best adventure epics I have read. […]
Author Tony Birch Visits Wangaratta
As part of the Melbourne Wheeler Centre’s “On the Road” program, author Tony Birch was in Wangaratta last Wednesday. Birch’s novel Blood was nominated for this year’s Miles Franklin award. I went and saw him talk primarily because he had some indigenous blood in him and I am curious about how his writing might portray […]
New Article on Divine – Review of Me and Her.
Divine News I have a new article on the Divine website, a review of Me and Her, a memoir by Karen Tyrrell. It is about her life with Bipolar Disorder. The review is very different from the personal review I had previously posted on my blog. This is the first paid book review I have done, so […]
The French Battle Amazon. My Writing Expenses.
Those Communist French. I read recently that the French government fixes the price of books so that French bookshops, including those online, cannot discount books by more than 5% of the RRP. On further investigation I found this article in the New York Times. French legislators even dictated to Amazon that its publishers can charge […]
Enjoying Reading The Passage by Justin Cronin.
The Passage by Justin Cronin has been a bloody good read so far. It’s apocalyptic horror/science fiction that takes vampires back to being monsters and not the insipid morally confused fashion plates they have become. The vampires in The Passage are genetically engineered mutants that have reverted to a primeval state whose only goal […]
ebook Price Survey
Price of Top-selling ebooks Continues to Rise. It has been seven weeks since I last checked the prices of Amazon’s 100 best-selling ebooks. Some trends seem to be continuing while others are faltering. Overall, the price of a best-selling ebook seems to be going up. The trends that continue include a drop in the number […]
Fifty Shade of Grey. And Life Imitates Freedom.
Writing News. I have been catching up on my newspaper reading and I have read some interesting articles relevant to writing and books. Shades of Twilight. A few blog posts ago, I postulated that based on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, publishers would now be bracing themselves for an influx of erotic manuscripts. […]
Australian History in Schools and Books.
Australian History in Schools There has been a bit of debate in the media lately about the teaching of Australian history in schools. I wish Australian History had been taught when I was in school in the 70’s. All I remember being forced to study was ancient Greek history in high-school. It not only […]