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Monday, August 27, 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Troll dreams - trilling about Trylle
The new slick cover for Trylle book #1.
Self-published books have an unfortunate stigma.
They're often seen as vanity projects, and dismissed by mainstream book reviewers, bookstores and established authors as embarrassing aberrations on the publishing...
Sunday, August 19, 2012
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Some books are good enough to eat...
London's Victoria's Kitchen is onto a winner with these delightful cupcakes!
Rightly described as 'deliciously fabulous', you can see more of their fine work at http://www.victorias-kitchen.c...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Judging books by their covers
My first book cover effort - shamelessly echoing
a cover I spotted in a book store!
I confess I have an artistic streak. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming to be any good – I just have a need for self-expression that occasionally goes beyond the...
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Self-publishing in Australia
When I wrote my first book, a school textbook, it was all very straightforward – I penned the words and someone else sculpted them into a more pleasing form, found illustrations to support what I was saying and pulled it all together in a nice, shiny...
Friday, August 10, 2012
What's read cannot be unread
This is exactly how I feel about certain books. What has been read cannot be unread.
You know the ones. The tomes you pick up on a whim, find deeply engrossing but forever leave their mark on you - like a brand.
For me that book was Peter Benchley's...
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Millennium book 4 to be published?
A close friend of the Swedish crime writer has revealed the plot for what he says is the fourth book in the Millennium Series - and it'll have protagonist Lisbeth Salander's estranged sister Camilla in a key role.
Kurdo Baksi, who...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Library book returned 33 years late!
A library book 33 years overdue has been anonymously returned to Gordon Library on Sydney's north shore in Australia. Originally due December 1978, the book was only reunited with its library in March 2011!
Attached on a post-it note was a cheeky...
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