Month: August 2010
Self Publishing
I’ve been humming and ha-ing about self-publishing for a long time. Online systems make it so easy these days and the author need not be burdened with a garage-full of unsold stock any more. More recently I’ve been dithering about which title to work on. The site I want to use, completelynovel.com, only has two…
This Website Business
At last year’s Christmas party, my publishers implored us to start blogging and tweeting and doing whatever we could on the internet. Well I’ve been doing that for the last thirteen years! I decided that I would try and blog everyday so that I could show what a waste of time it was. If I…
No typing required – iPhone Dragon Dictation
Okay this is a little weird because I’m recording this blog post on my iPhone and I’m just talking straight into it and I’m not doing any typing at all. I’m having to think and talk a little more slowly than usual because if I talk too fast, my words will slur and the machine…