To Ebook or not to Ebook?
The answer appears to be NOT, for the moment. Swinella is out in paperback, of course, and you can pick up your copy from me at either London Alternative Market, SWAMP or the BBB. And other places as well, from … Continued
Author Archives: Zak Jane Keir
Rainbows Rising
It’s getting scarier by the day, no one is going to deny that. Perhaps one advantage of being a bit older is having lived through times that had those around us thinking or indeed screaming and yelling that we had … Continued
New Year… New WTF?
Back when blogging was the biggest deal in town for any small artist/writer/maker/commentator, I’m sure my Start The New Year posts were a little more cheerful than they have been so far on this site. Funnily enough, maybe the most … Continued
Spines: a modern scam for wannabe authors.
That’s all it is, you know. You should know, by now, what vanity publishing is (and know, of course, never to go anywhere near it) and Spines is such a blatantly obvious vanity-publishing scam that it’s surprising how many publishing-industry … Continued
Platforms, promotions and feeding the monsters
‘Feeding the monsters’ is a phrase that came up in a conversation (online, of course) about 15 years ago, when using the internet – specifically, what we were still getting used to describing as social media – for promoting your … Continued
My Foolish, Bestial, Brilliant Weekend
The first time I described my social circle to someone as ‘mainly pagans, perverts and morris dancers‘ was about 20 years ago and, well, not much has changed. Just recently I went to have a bit of fun that involved … Continued
Don’t be afraid of Cartmans…
Having always been something of a fan of South Park, I have taken to using ‘Cartman’ or ‘Cartmans’ as a term for a certain tiresome type of person mainly found on social media. There have certainly been a fine crop … Continued
When Agents FOFA*
(Fuck Around & Find Out) This week’s top What Were You Thinking story also falls into a category called Things That I Thought Never Happened… Back in the 90s, in the days of the Guild of Erotic Writers and a … Continued
Too Cool for Old School?
So a little puff piece showed up on the BBC news page about a young couple who like vintage stuff. OK so I am perhaps old enough to know that the internet, particularly Twitter, is full of funsponges who can’t … Continued
I mean, what were you THINKING? #RTD author event
And now time for even more Fun in Literary Life… Threads, in particular, has been exploding this week regarding an author signing/book lovers’ event in the USA which seems to have been a bit on the messy side, to say … Continued