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
Musings
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
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
Rating and Reviewing Revisited
Yet another bout of squawking over reviewing practices has erupted, this time mainly on Threads, which I have recently leapt aboard (find me at zak jane keir (@zakjanekeirdsw) on Threads ). I’ve posted about reviews more than once on here … Continued
Beliefs, behaviours and consequences
(If you know the specifics of the bin fire which inspired this post then you should probably understand why no names are being named here…) It’s currently quite a thing among, mostly, hard-right bigoted crazies, particularly anti-trans wingnuts, to … Continued
Off you go, 2023…
Maybe this blog got started at the start of the Difficult Times (do not blame me for any of it, I have no more power than anyone else, OK?) but a common theme in DSW end-of-year posts tends to be, … Continued