books, authors and other interestingness

Bookcamp: Harper Collins, Authonomy & Book Army

January 17, 2009

Harper Collins – Kate Hyde, Mark Johnson. Authonomy, book with rating new books. Getting agents on board. Going to be using Blurb to move manuscripts into PoD. Big learning curve. Tension about being a large company wanting to find the best books, with the needs of the community. People quesitoning why they’re doing it and [...]

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Bookcamp: When users create their own stuff

January 17, 2009

I’m here at Bookcamp today, a day of talking about publishing, books, paper and all sorts of related things. Notes are a bit all over the place, but hopefully they’ll be interesting. Comic Life, kit who put together a comic for show and tell at school, ended up selling copies to his friends. What if [...]

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Asterix yn y Gymraeg

November 26, 2008

Dw i newydd darganfod bod ‘na fersiwns Asterix The Gaul yn y Gymraeg. Mae ‘na wyth o deitlau: Asterix y Galiad (1976) Asterix ym Mhrydain (1976) Asterix a Cleopatra (1976) Asterix Gladiator (1977) Asterix ym myddin Cesar (1978) Asterix yn y gemau Olympaidd (1979) Asterix a’r ornest fawr (1980) Asterix ac anrheg Cesar (1981) Dyma’r [...]

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Vote for Neil!

November 8, 2007

OK, we all know I’m a devoted fan of Neil Gaiman. Devoted, if possibly a bit rubbish at actually doing fan-like things, such as standing in line for signings, making it to any of his recent appearances in London, or buying everything he’s ever released. I hang my head in shame for that and hope [...]

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World's Sexiest Writer 2007

August 12, 2007

Vince and some of his pals at Crimespace have set up a poll to find the World's Sexiest Writer 2007. The nice thing about it is that you can add people to the list, not just be forced to vote for one of the existing entrants. Of course, I entirely deny that I added any [...]

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A suffusion of… puce, I think it is

August 1, 2007

Good to see that Neil's Official Web Elf has our best interests at heart, rather than his.

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Neil Gaiman at Cody's

April 23, 2007

In that sad and slightly pathetic way that self-employed people deal with such things, I'm attempting to have a few days off this week. It's not a holiday as such – I'm not going anywhere, I'm not escaping my laptop, and I'm not slumped on the sofa watching the TV. (Mainly because our sofa is [...]

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