Every so often I see a post: “Can you guys help me choose the best blog name/post title/domain name/book title/book cover?” Because I’m a helpful sort of person, and my skills often enable me to unlock this sort of thing, I sometimes try to engage with these. And often I end up frustrated because the […]
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The age of illumination
This piece is an excerpt from my ebook ‘Crowd/Control’, now available on Amazon. We had the Industrial Age. We had the Information Age, which slid into the Communication Age of putting information to use. We saw ourselves from space as one planet for the first time, and then set about making it a technosocial reality. […]
London Book Fair 2013
On Monday and Tuesday I was at this show at Earl’s Court, London. It’s a great big event where the publishing industry converges to show off titles, make deals and discuss the future. I went last year for the first time and enjoyed it, so I was back again, though not for the whole three […]
The Self-Publishing Conference 2013
Yesterday I was at this event down the road in Leicester. I confess, I wasn’t particularly enthusiastic about an early start on a Sunday in the snow! I’m glad I went though. There was a good atmosphere and I would happily have chatted to people further – a good indicator for an event, and especially […]
On the pricing of ebooks
I just had this experience. Someone recommended a book. Sounded interesting, might get, wondering about print or ebook format. Grabbed the Kindle sample to test it out, liked what I read. Kindle book price is £11.15. Process stops for further internal debate. By the way, the book in question is Winning the Story Wars by […]
Word Fu
I realised last night that I have something in common with my qigong teacher. Qigong is a Chinese system of movement to improve health. You can use a mental shorthand of “a bit like tai chi” if that helps (though of course there are reasons why it’s inaccurate, like tai chi being a martial art […]