A couple of weeks ago I turned 50. A big enough age-hurdle to get over in itself, but it was even more of a shock to find that the French newspaper Le Figaro had added a further nine years to my age in their review of Le Temps de la Vengeance, the French edition of …
Hey, it’s a book! And here it is with its siblings:
I now have a kindle. I don’t yet have any books on it (apart from the Oxford American Dictionary, which it comes loaded with, and an ebook file of the novel I’m working on for editing purposes). But I do own a kindle. Most people are talking about e-book readers such as kindle as if …
I’ve reached the penultimate chapter in my twitterisation of my novel A Gentle Axe. I don’t seriously think anyone will have followed the twitterisation all the way through. As a communication channel, twitter simply doesn’t suit the transmission of an extended text. Not only is the story broken up, but if you come into it …
It’s always been a fantasy of mine to spot someone on the tube reading one of my books. I don’t think I would ever actually say anything to them. It might be just a little too odd. (Though possibly I might have to say something, just to explain why I was looking at them like …
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