Archive for May, 2006

Some of you have probably noticed the often lengthy comments on here from a guy called Seb Nemeth. Well, he’s finally set up a space to comment as much as he likes without taking up other people’s bandwidth! Seb has a blog now called The Four Corners. On it he’ll be talking a lot...
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I had a client cancel on me at the last minute yesterday, so I decided to treat myself to some downtime. I went to see the new X-Men movie, The Last Stand. I’ve always been a big fan of comic books and superhero stories, so I usually try to catch the new superhero movies...
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Talking of bestsellers (see previous blog entry) another guaranteed superbook is on the horizon. Apparently, Oprah Winfrey has just landed US$12 million advance from publishers Simon & Schuster to write a book about keeping weight under control. She’ll be writing the book in conjunction with her Personal Trainer, Bob Greene. This is a record...
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I saw a great comedian on television the other day. He said he was working on a new book that was sure to hit the top of the bestseller lists. It was going to be called “Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Sudoku”. A guaranteed winner there, but for plagiarism. I’m surprised Kaavya Viswanathan...
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My apologies for the lack of activity on this blog lately. I’ve been quite busy. One of the things taking up a lot of my time is the sequel to RealmShift. I’ve been working on it a lot lately and I’m very happy with how it’s progressing. I’m not sure I’ll make the release...
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For the bibliophiles among you, and I would like to think that applied to all the readers here, I’ve found a treat for you. Some clever soul has designed an online bookshelf for people to catalogue their entire library. It’s called ‘Library Thing’. Remarkably imaginative really. You can search by ISBN, author, etc. for...
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Dr George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, is in trouble again. The leading Catholic is regularly upsetting people with his comments and opinions. This time Dr Pell made an address to US Catholic business leaders in Florida in February; the address was published last week. In his speech, Cardinal Pell questioned the tolerance of Islam....
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RealmShift has just received another great review. This time from the good people at TCM Reviews. You can read it here. There’s something really satisfying about other people enjoying what I write. Far beyond the obvious rewards of selling more books, it’s enormously gratifying to see other people enjoying a story that I chose...
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Buy it, even if you don’t know you need it. Advertising has always been about creating need. After all, anything really worth having is going to sell itself, to a degree. However, advertisers are always desperate to bombard us with information about things we didn’t even know we wanted. The latest thing we can’t...
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