By Nat | Published:
August 9, 2010
Publishing: Dorchester goes digital, and B&N looks to go private. It’s all a bit rock&roll reunion tour in print publishing too right now, isn’t it? Oh, but ebooks haven’t stopped: Conneticut is investigating agency publishing as being potentially anti-competitive. Interest-Piquing: Joy Berry, children’s author, threatened to sue Joy Berry, erotica author, on the basis the [...]
By Nat | Published:
August 2, 2010
Publishing: Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news this week from the retailing giants. The good news is that agency pricing is NOT coming to the UK. Amazon are finally launching a Kindle store in this country (and Kindle 3), and have confirmed this. The bad news? Apple are censoring their bestseller lists (not [...]
By Nat | Published:
July 5, 2010
Still trying to figure out what’s precisely gone wrong, but I think I’m mostly back on track with wordpress now. As long as I don’t want to edit anything… I was hoping to start posting interviews this week, but between the website troubles and the fact I’m disappearing south for my birthday and my mother’s [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 28, 2010
The Times is now behind a paywall, so that’s the last of their culture section well see for a while. I like the paper reasonably well, but not enough to pay for it when I get most of my news from the BBC and most of my culture from the Guardian (sexed up Anne Frank [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 21, 2010
It’s Pride Month in the US, so there’s all sorts of interesting and educational links popping up at the moment. There’s Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Straight Privilege Edition, from unusualmusic at theangryblackwoman.com, and a great series of articles on avoiding stereotypes in YA fiction from Malinda Lo. The Examiner is listing calls for LGBTQ submissions. [...]
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By Nat | Published:
June 14, 2010
Publishing: eBooks rewrite bookselling. A bit of a mix of sensible estimations and wild predictions, but another sign people are waking up to the potential impact of eBooks. Interest-Piquing: Do you write fantasy or literary fiction? InsPiring: Shakespeare in the bush – never make assumptions about what is “universal”. You can’t have a revenge narrative [...]
By Nat | Published:
June 7, 2010
Publishing: The iBook store’s finally launched in the UK, but only with free books. It’s still a bit up n the air whether the Agency model is legal in this country, which is interesting. If it’s deemed not to be, how is that going to affect the Agency Five? If they use the Agency model [...]
By Nat | Published:
May 24, 2010
I’m actually writing this on Saturday, but let’s pretend the whole weekend’s gone by. It’s been insanely hot. Sunshine makes me feel productive (partly because my curtains are too thin, so i’ve got no hope of a lie-in), but our wireless unfortunately doesn’t extend into the garden. It doesn’t really extend into my room, not [...]
By Nat | Published:
April 19, 2010
Firstly, a link that belongs below, really, but (a) the article is over a year old and (b) I want it to stand out because it’s interesting and I think it’s important for writers to consider the issue of race before they start writing. Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Kids Books, courtesy [...]
By Nat | Published:
April 15, 2010
I’ve printed out the contract for Loose Id, and I’m trying to get my head around the tax stuff. I’m actually quite fortunate in that th financial year has just ticked over, so I have plenty of time to work out whether I’ll hit the lower limit for declaring foreign earnings or not in the [...]
