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Month: February, 2011

Borderless

Closed for business
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You may have

heard the news that REDGroup Australia, owners of Borders and Angus&Robertson bookstores has gone into voluntary administration. That is, they’re broke. There are quite a few angles to view this development from, but …

Statistician

Cheese Bar Graph
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A couple of

days ago, I discovered that my blog had surpassed 50,000 hits. That’s according to the ‘WP-stats’ plug-in that I’ve had running ever since I moved from my previous ‘insanejournal‘ to …

Self-publishing and emerging writers: some extra thoughts

Memories of old / Memorias de antaño

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I’ve had some

time to mull over the response that the post previous to this one received, including some comments that I thought raised new points, so I thought I’d add a couple of additional ideas that …

Self-publishing and some advice for emerging writers

The slushpile, Tor, the Flatiron Building, New York City, New York, USA.JPG
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I’ve been seeing

a lot of conversation going on lately about self-publishing and how it relates to emerging writers. This is a topic that I’m quite interested in, having both considered the possibility of self-publishing and applied …

Meat and greet

Greet the Dawn
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Last night, I

did two things that I’m proud of. One was to get up in front of a whole bunch of people for the February Cottonmouth meeting at the 459 Bar and read out my short/flash …