So I'm still trying to get BookBoost.com off the ground, my little service for providing cheap websites for authors. Getting a fair few pageviews a day but no...
Something quite disturbing about this Japanese site's photos of an empty holiday resort . Link from the JG Ballard mailing list, unsurprisingly enough. More on...
Realised with some horror the other day that Google has yet to index all the archive pages of splinters - there are literally hundreds of pages of content...
...then you may have found that the splinters feed mysteriously disappeared a week ago or so. Bloglines have just fixed the tedious technical problem behind...
Two posts at Grumpy Old Bookman - Truth in numbers and Long-term career prospects for writers which provide independent backup to my speculation yesterday...
From Chuck's About The Author page for his book Haunted : "Standing people, according to my translator in Italy, they just dropped, disappearing in the crowd....
From A VC : "I am reading two books simultaneously that are both about New York City in 1977. The first is the 33 1/3 series book on the Ramones first record ,...
BBC News : "The CIA sent a team to Afghanistan days after 9/11 with orders to kill Osama Bin Laden and bring back his head, a former agent has revealed. Gary...
I don't receive too many review copies but like London buses, two have come this week. Reaktion books have sent me Steven Roger Fischer's The Island at the End...
steve
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May 4, 2005 6:03 pm
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That sub-title is not a gurgle: it's a mouth full! American books have the habit of doing that don't. How about writing a study on the length of american...
My gurgling was, as I wrote, a result of the blurb. And I don't know what the sentence "American books have the habit of doing that don't" means. And which...
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May 4, 2005 7:03 pm
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Sorry:) The don't should have been followed by 'they.' As in 'don't they.' ____________________________________________________________________________ ...
I notice that with this emailing of the blog, I don't get a second chance to correct typos, so it's best to look up the blog itself if the sense is unclear....
Steve Mitchelmore
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May 4, 2005 7:35 pm
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My vertical neighbour Liz Williams (whose latest novel Banner of Souls was reviewed in the Guardian at the weekend) reports comments from New Labour's Culture...
steve
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May 4, 2005 7:58 pm
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Marvellous. Haloscan has switched on some new software that's stopping me posting comments. Comment spam has started again, so I guess it's time to look for a...
Following on from my post about authors taking promotion duties seriously , I just got word about Kevin O'Hara's debut novel, the catalogue filing nightmare...
Fierce! is "the international performance art that bites. We showcase artists from across the world and artistic spectrum whose only link is that they provoke...
It must be me but I read this line: 'only a disguised version of American nationalism.' And thought that this book was american not english. I'll admit its my...
Spike contributor Thierry Brunet just dropped me a line about It/ll Be Better Tomorrow , the site dedicated to Michael W. Dean's film about Hubert Selby, Jr....
Only just discovered that last night, as a nation yawned in unison to the election coverage, James Wood and John Banville were on BBC Radio 3 discussing Saul...
steve
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May 6, 2005 8:31 pm
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Grumpy Old Bookman points out this press release where print-on-demand publishers Authorhouse have teamed up with British book chain Waterstone's. Waterstone's...
Couple of good responses to my post about Self Publishing and the new Macmillian deal. First off, Hugh MacLeod from Gaping Void said it was "groovy" which made...
And what do I want for Christmas 2005? Well, a Thomas Bernhard Kalender 2006 that's what. A snip at €19.90 from Amazon DE . -- Posted by steve to splinters:...
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May 7, 2005 7:30 pm
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Latest addition to Spike is Craig Johnson's fascinating and frequently hilarious interview with Factory Records' supremo Tony Wilson . F4 is the latest...
The Observer claims to discuss the question asked by the title of Prof John Carey's new book What Good Are the Arts? It's too easy to respond flippantly to...
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May 8, 2005 7:55 pm
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My favourite mp3 blog Said the Gramophone is having a Smog Day with three songs to download. I was going to say it includes one of the great modern songs - Red...
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May 11, 2005 7:42 pm
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The night before the election ITV broadcast Ali G Indahouse . I watched it despite not being a fan of his TV shows. It was very funny I thought. Unlikely...
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May 11, 2005 8:01 pm
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I was in Huddersfield a few miles south of Bradford watching my team missing out on promotion on goal difference. On Wakefield train station a policeman told...
