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2021-08-22 08:41
This is the first time that I have written a piece for this blog in several years. The reason is simple: I am too old to have the time and energy to do any serious work: 82 last May.  I… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
You will be thrilled, indifferent, or mildly interested to know that I have now completed all seven volumes in my guides for writers series.The previous post described number 5. Number 6 in… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Just a brief note to let you know that the fifth in my series of Writer's Guides is now available. Title: A Writer's Guide to Traditional Publishing.Here's the blurb:This is a book whic… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Here is another in Loren Kantor's series of woodcuts of writers. (I mentioned other examples here.)I knew quite a lot of the Hemingway life story, but until I read Loren's accompanying artic… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Some time ago, specifically on 24 September 2004, I wrote a description on this blog of a web site set up by one Andrew Malcolm: it went by the name of Akme, and it took the form, mainly, of… Read More
2015-05-27 10:42
Back in July 2006, as you doubtless remember, I mentioned a well reviewed book by Robert Eggleton: Rarity from the Hollow. Well, it's still in print, from a different publisher, and in Kindl… Read More
2014-09-16 08:29
Loren Kantor has completed another woodcut of a famous author: this time Virginia Woolf. (For Loren's portrait of Hemingway, click here.)To my eye, this woodcut makes the troubled lady look… Read More
2013-09-12 18:49
Further to what I was saying in August, I have another book out in my series of guides for writers. This one is called A Writer's Guide to Success -- subtitled A Serious Look at a Serious Su… Read More
2013-06-21 19:10
Just to let you know that my latest book for writers, How to Write a Novel that Works, is available FREE in Kindle format as of 22 June for 5 days.Subtitled A Straightforward, Practical Guid… Read More
2013-05-11 09:15
The art of the woodcut is not yet dead. Loren Cantordoes some interesting work on arts-related subjects, such as Edgar Allan Poe. Worth a look Read More
2013-04-13 16:01
I was never a university lecturer, much less a professor, but I do have two higher degrees in Education -- MEd and PhD. I even wrote a book about higher education: The Goals of Universities… Read More
2013-02-21 19:49
I've been doing much work on setting up my numerous Kindle books to make nearly all of them free at some point in the coming weeks. The quickest way to check what is on free offer at any tim… Read More
2013-02-07 16:44
In the UK we had, until recently, a well known writer of what the trade thinks of as 'women's fiction'. The author's name was Emma Blair.For at least the last decade I've been aware that Emm… Read More
2013-01-25 11:47
I forget now which particular blog or web site it was that first pointed me towards the video of Chip Kidd's presentation to a TED audience, on the design of book covers -- but my hat is lif… Read More
2013-01-15 09:52
Should you be planning to visit Shakespeare country. or thereabouts, be sure to visit Rebekah Owens's blog Travels with my Oxygen. Full of good advice on where to go to eat well, and how to… Read More
2013-01-11 16:14
Just My Type is a book about fonts. And these days most people have a vague idea what fonts are, if only because they see the word (occasionally) on their word processor.Well, a whole book a… Read More
2013-01-10 10:19
Well, well, it took a while -- actually about twenty years -- but finally Penguin did the obvious thing and reissued Professor John Yudkin's absolutely classic study of sugar: Pure, White an… Read More
2013-01-04 18:59
Englishmen of a certain age -- let's say over seventy -- tend to have a grudging respect for the German army. I'm not quite sure why, but it probably has something to do with two world wars… Read More
2012-12-18 20:04
It seems that The Book Designer web site runs a monthly competition for the best designs for an ebook cover (or e-book cover, as the site chooses to spell it). If you follow this link you wi… Read More
2012-12-12 11:26
Despite my best efforts, there seems to be less and less time for writing these days. However, I have managed to turn out the odd short story. (Odd in more ways than one.) The Rescue of Bert… Read More
2012-11-30 16:21
I have recommended the work of Adam Curtis here before. And if you have any hope (Ha! What an optimist you are!) of understanding the Middle East, then you urgently need to read and watch hi… Read More
2012-11-15 09:37
Some eighty-five years ago, an English novelist by the name of C.S. Forester published the first in a 12-book series about Horatio Hornblower. The books were not written chronologically, in… Read More
2012-11-03 21:01
London's Overthrow is a small paperback -- about 7" by 4.5" -- and it runs to about 96 pages, including the prelims and a few photos at the end.The book is printed on paper which, as in a ne… Read More
2012-10-16 18:25
Don't know about you, but I'm not exactly short of books to read, so I don't often need to go searching for something new. However, I do keep my eyes open, and occasionally the Saturday edit… Read More
2012-10-15 19:39
Some months ago I stumbled across the blog written by American author Dean Wesley Smith. Dean also has a web site which describes his thirty-year (and counting) career as a writer. Most of h… Read More

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