>Well from time-to-time on this site we've talked about e-publishing as an alternative channel to the present set up. So: because this is very important to me, and because this is typical monkey fashion - talk ain't enough, we need to start doing... go and have a look http://www.savethedragons.nu/Which is a Miller and Lee style... Continue Reading →

>I came across this topic Friday while reading some of the writing blogs I follow. What started as a single blog post seems to have become sort of a mini-MEME. It started over at the Creative Penn. Joanna Penn blogged about what she wishes she'd known before writing her first book. Then Alexis Grant, at... Continue Reading →

>I am English but I write primarily for Americans. This has various consequences but one is that there is a major difference in the attitude to fictional entertainment.I first noticed it many years ago when we started to get American soaps such as Dallas and Dysentery. British soaps are about poor people and usually have... Continue Reading →

>I'm no grammar expert. That sort of thing is instinctive for me, and I usually feel my way through a sentence. As for the grammar grey areas well . . .I recently came across a bit of a tangle that was a little hard to resolve. A nice reader pointed out there were errors in... Continue Reading →

>Tying in with my own post last week and with Rowena’s this week – how complex is complex? When do you know you’ve left your intended audience miles behind?My older son is starting college this year. The college has what can only be described as a "filler class" called "freshman seminar" destined to teach the... Continue Reading →

>photo courtesy alexkerheadSomething happened the other day that made me think about writing and how integral it is to our lives.You know you're a writer:When you recall your childhood and adolescent by the books you were reading and the authors you discovered.When life altering events happen and you catch yourself thinking, I must remember how... Continue Reading →

>Kate, pick your mind back up out of the gutter! I meant points in the writing when you stick tighter than a plump gent superglued onto a toilet seat. The point at which writing at all seems futile, and what you've already done feels like a waste of effort. I have two or three of... Continue Reading →

>The last several weeks have seen us blogging about ebooks and e-publishing, e-socialization, promoting our work, and when to break the rules, among other things. So today I've pulled together some related links.In case you haven't heard, Sony announced last month that they would support the ePub standard on its e-book readers. This opens up... Continue Reading →

>When I was a young man back in the seventies there was a consensus among the chattering classes that human behaviour was almost solely a product of 'society'. I recall wondering what society was a product of even as a callow schoolboy.This was a comforting social paradigm because it meant that all problems could be... Continue Reading →