You may remember that there’s been a Facebook competition going on for a signed copy of RealmShift, run through the Facebook group, Book Lover’s Club. It started with this great review of RealmShift, then the Club asked people to suggest…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 4 – Chuck McKenzie, bookseller
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My posts about the new age of publishing continue apace. This time I have a post that I think is awesome. Chuck McKenzie is a great guy and a personal friend. He’s also a writer but, more importantly in this…
New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 3 – Mark Coker cross-post
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In my continuing series of guest posts about the changing face of publishing, I couldn’t resist cross-posting this one. Mark Coker, CEO of Smashwords, was recently interviewed by Jeff Rivera at MediaBistro. He was asked for his ten book publishing…
New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 2 – Moriah Jovan
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In my ongoing end of year series of posts about the new face of publishing, I present a repost here of an article by Moriah Jovan. Following on from Angela Slatter’s post about her Smashwords journey, Moriah talks about the…
Last chance to win a signed copy of RealmShift
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Well, the last chance for now, at least. This is just a quick reminder that Book Lover’s Club on Facebook is featuring RealmShift at the moment and they’re running a contest to win a signed copy. Head over to their…
ThrillerCast with Trent Jamieson
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The latest episode of the ThrillerCast podcast is now available. In this episode I review Trent Jamieson’s awsome debut novel Death Most Definite, then Dave and I interview Trent himself. We talk about the book, about urban fantasy thrillers, about…
New Age of Publishing – Guest Post 1 – Angela Slatter
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Over the next few weeks I’m going to host a handful of guest posts from writers, publishers and booksellers talking about the new face of publishing. The world is changing and all aspects of writing and publishing are being affected…
Unimagined by Imran Ahmad – review
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I mentioned recently that I was planning to read one non-genre novel for every SF novel I read. With that in mind I’ve just read Unimagined by Imran Ahmad. My wife recommend it to me – “It’s nothing life changing,…
ThrillerCast episodes up
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I’ve been a bit remiss in reminding people about the new episodes of ThrillerCast, the podcast I do with fellow author David Wood. While the podcast is essentially about reading, writing and publishing in the thriller genre, there’s a lot…
A Game Of Thrones – George R R Martin
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I mentioned before that I was finally reading this massive epic fantasy series by George R R Martin. Basically, I’ve had the books for ages, buying them because it was something I wanted to read, but putting off the actual…