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
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“I am famous. Send n00ds.”
Hello and welcome to another chapter of Authors Behaving Tragically. Funnily enough, this was almost a post about someone else being Very Silly Indeed. (Romance authors whining about being categorized with EWW SEX STUFF is always annoying and amusing…) But … Continued
Authors, Great and Smallminded
Encouraging news: Society of Authors chair Joanne Harris has seen off a campaign by a handful of hasbeens, bigots and whinyarses to have her compelled to stand down. Despite a lifetime of writing, I’ve never actually been a member of … Continued
Should you self-publish?
(The first in an occasional series for new or new-ish authors) If you’ve written, or are writing, your first book, you’re probably at least considering whether to self-publish. There are a lot of good reasons to go right ahead and … Continued
Threats, disagreement and attention-seeking
Almost everyone who uses social media regularly has had threats from some or other wingnut. I got some little 4Chan tosspot send an ART after me a few years ago which, due to circumstances, was more comedy gold than a … Continued
Author self-own of the week
I suppose it was about time we had another author self-own. It has, after all, been six years since one last annoyed me to the extent of blogging about it. She, however, was more tiresome silly bitch than grifter, unlike … Continued
Book thieves and book poseurs
It’s not particularly new for social media, or sectors of it, to be enabling book thieves. Just like music thieves, and film thieves, the internet is full of the idea that stealing art, particularly digital art, is somehow sticking it … Continued
Shenanigans signing – win tickets for yourself and a friend
During the early, volatile stages of the spring of 2020, some of us were hoping Shenanigans would go ahead even as all the other dominoes were falling: unfortunately it became unfeasible to hold it, and the same was true of … Continued
Review Rage – Right and Wrong
Reviews can be the bane of any author’s life. Some people would advise never reading them because too many bad ones will make you miserable – and perhaps too many enthusiastic ones will make you bigheaded. Certainly one author recently … Continued
In an alternate timeline…
… It would probably have been Eroticon this weekend. In an alternate timeline, this previous post would have been rather more on the mark, perhaps. Lastyear’s Eroticon was, understandably, cancelled a few days before it was due to happen, … Continued