via io9.com As many of you know, I’m a fan of the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin and I decided on the title of my novel A Calculated Life when I read this sentence from his science fiction dystopia, We. But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, th…
I have discovered, unexpectedly, a major advantage in buying your own ISBNs for the print versions of your books. Self-published paperbacks (and hardbacks, I assume) with ISBNs can be pre-ordered on certain Amazon sites before the publication date…
At my local book club last week, we mused on the fact that one person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia (the club met to scrutinize my novel, which is a dystopia set late in the 21st century). So it’s apposite that Rebecca Solnit should write …
via blog.bufferapp.com In developing the main character, Jayna, in A Calculated Life, I needed to understand more about the nature of emotion, and how emotion differs from feeling. I found enlightenment in Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza: Jo…
via io9.com So, the UK has a cold snap, London experiences proper snow, and Mayor Boris announces he’s a climate-change sceptic, on the basis that? the weather feels colder, not warmer. Thus, it was fascinating to read the results of new research …
via writing.ie Here’s a great tip from MJ Hyland, author of This is How and lecturer in creative writing at The University of Manchester. In a nutshell, she says: Printing off your text in an ugly font will make mistakes show up more clearly. The …
via alc.manchester.ac.uk An exhibition next month at John Rylands Library in Manchester will present previously lost etchings by poet and artist William Blake. The librarians at John Rylands suspected their collection of over one million books inc…
So, your manuscript is finished (raise the flags!) and you?re ready to self-publish your ebook. You?ve already set up an account on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and you?ve completed all the information requested ? book title, description, catego…
One of the world’s biggest tidal energy turbines being prepared for deployment in Scotland. A Royal Society report says we’re underestimating the amount of electricity that could be generated from tidal sources, says Matt McGrath BBC Environment c…
via futurebook.net I didn’t notice this (staggeringly interesting) story in the run up to Christmas and I reckon it’s worth resurrecting. According to the Digital Census by Futurebook, almost half the traditionally published authors responding to …
