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Astounding!

Gobsmacked! Yesterday, I was astounded three times by new information about elements of books and publishing. There are How Many Self-publishers in Australia? The first piece of astounding information occurred when reading Jane Sullivan’s Book Marks column in The Age.

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Melbourne Writers Festival – Independent Publishers Panel

  Independent Publishing: Where Next?  One of the free sessions I attended at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival was a discussion by three of Australia’s largest independent publishers about the current state and future of the publishing industry. The participants

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A review of Lucy.

Lucy is a strange science-fiction movie. Not so much because of its subject matter, more because it flirts with so many science-fiction sub-genres. But more about that latter. The film begins in Taiwan where Lucy, Scarlett Johansson, is exposed to

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Best Time to Blog.

I recently read a blog post titled A Scientific Guide to Posting Tweets, Facebook Posts, Emails and Blog Posts at the Best Times, by Belle Beth Cooper. The post had me thinking about the random nature of my blog posts.

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Medical Use of Cannabis

I wrote this article just over a year ago but I could not find a paying home for it, so here it is.  Up until the twentieth century, cannabis was frequently used in western medicine. But more effective painkillers such

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A review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set just over a decade after Rise of the Planet of the Apes. In that movie, a scientist experimented with a cure for Alzheimer’s on apes. The cure increased the intelligence

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Rebooting Books.

  So many movies are scheduled to be remade or rebooted. In the past few weeks I’ve read or heard that Stargate, Predator, Highlander, Gremlins, IT, Jumanji, Star Wars, Logan’s Run, Poltergeist, Videodrome, Starship Troopers, and even Police Academy –

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