I was prompted to write this week’s post after I made a comment that a lot of the books published by one of the major science fiction publishers in the US seemed to be awful pulp fiction: full of mad
I was curious how last year’s bestselling books compared between Australia, the US and the UK, so I had a look. Australia The top ten bestselling print books in Australia were: 1. Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff
IT’S FINISHED!!!! Well at least the first draft of my epic science-fiction novel is finished. Last Thursday I wrote the final words of a first draft I started writing for in November 2011 for National Novel Writing Month. So
My Writing. I added 45880 words to my novel. I wrote 8 articles for Divine, of which 7 were published. Blog posts: 50 Number of days I wrote on: 365 I also enjoyed three days of the Melbourne Writers
Books Once again, I did not read many books this year, but the ones I read were nearly all very good science-fiction. As two books were from the same series, you would expect one of them to be my favourite
Shift is great apocalyptic science-fiction. It is a prequel to the also excellent Wool. I reviewed Wool earlier this year. To fully appreciate Shift, you need to first read Wool. Anyone who reads Shift without first reading Wool risks missing
A new Australian newspaper called Saturday is set to come onto the market next year. I hope it does well, we need a lot more diversity in the Australian market. The newspaper will review books, nothing unusual there. What is
I have not read Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, or any other book he has written. But I am aware that Ender’s Game is one of the iconic science fiction books. I am also aware the Card has controversial views
A newspaper article, along with a couple of list challenges and a television show, have me thinking about what I read. To Read People Better, Read More Literature. It started with an article in The Age with the intriguing title:
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
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
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
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