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Hi all and
welcome to yet another edition of Untangling the Web. In this post I’ll be discussing the mammoth Google Books deal, followed by a rant encompassing many people’s opinion on literary prizes, and finally some useful links for the literature-inclined. As always, thanks go to my main sources of links: [...]
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Hello all and
welcome to the first blogisode (yeah I went there) of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some [...]
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The Christmas chaos
has finally passed, and thank goodness for that. The day itself wasn’t too taxing, but the overwhelming pressure leading up to it was pretty awful. I solemnly swear that next year I am going all online and ordering everything in November. That said, I did find some good presents from [...]
Last night, as I watched the second instalment of the Die Hard series for the first time (having been a fan of the first and third movies since primary school [and let's not talk about 4.0]), I was struck with the similarity of John McClane’s predicament with that of a writer. Anyway, the thought persisted [...]
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I have resurfaced
from another marathon reading session. It’s not by my choosing, I’ve been gripped by a force beyond my ken. There I was, struggling through ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ like a good little literary reader, when a friend of mine suggested I take a look at this book here, have [...]