I read an interesting article this week, on a Random House website, about the book purchasing habits of Americans. The information came from Bowker Market Research and their 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics & Buying Behaviour Annual Review. Taking myself
Paradox Resolution is K.A Bedford’s eagerly awaited sequel to his 2008 Aurealis winning novel Time Machines Repaired While U Wait. The novel continues the adventures of time machine repairer Spider Webb in a near future where time machines are the
Last week I wrote a blog post which concluded that many self-publishers would probably burn out from the estimated twelve hour days needed to write and successfully promote their books. To illustrate the blog post I used a picture of
My post this week relies on a year-old article in the Guardian about self-publishing authors. The article refers to a survey that was conducted by the Taleist website. One thousand self-published authors responded to an invitation to fill in the
To my knowledge, I have not been abducted by aliens, although if I had, that might explain a few things. For example, maybe one of their alien probes caused my Ulcerative Colitis. I have seen many UFO’s, but I quickly
The Wool Omnibus is one of the best and most original science fiction books I have read. It is full of tension and intrigue from page one, and that tension is maintained through to the very last page. Anyone
I am a member of a few science fiction communities on Google+, where an increasing number of authors want me to give money to their Kickstarter projects. I had ignored these requests, considered them to be a new form of
Now I know you have been impatiently waiting for me to do another survey of the prices of the top 100 bestselling ebooks. So here it is. If you’re a wannabe author, like me, you have probably been doing a
When I first pulled Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars from the shelves of a bookstore, I remember muttering a sarcastic “yeah right,” after I read a comment on its cover claiming it was “A novel about the end of the world
On a Facebook Crohn’s and Colitis page, I learnt of a research report where nearly 50% of pot-smoking Crohn’s sufferers went into remission. I then decided to write and ask the editor of DiVine if I could write an article
I was happily reading the Age the other day, thinking everything was okay with life when I spotted an article titled “You don’t need to spell it out, OK is okay in anyone’s language”. WTF? Had someone gone and changed
When most writers think about the future of publishing they think about a world where the ease of e-publishing leads to the market being flooded by millions of wannabe authors. How is a new author going to get noticed in
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