It has been sometime since I posted some classic Australian poetry. So I thought I would right that wrong with one of my favourites that opens with an unforgettable line that was burned into my memory in my schooldays. I …
The Most Stupid Book Titles Ever
An odd fact I’ve noticed about my blog is that my posts about stupidity rate as highly as my posts about books and publishing. So I thought. Why not combine these two popular post topics into one? Hence, today’s offering. …
Short Story – The Lizard and the Golden Fish By Bruce Kilarski
The Lizard and the Golden Fish A small lizard stood motionless next to a garden pond, his eyes fixed on a swirl in the water below. Beneath the water’s surface glided an exquisitely beautiful fish. Never in this life had …
Publishing eBooks – What A Pain In The Neck
There was a time long, long ago in the days when books were books that the singular most important issues that needed careful attention before publishing were editing, proof reading and choosing the typography. Once that first proof copy hit …
Short Story – Out On A Limb By Shaune Lafferty Webb
Out On A Limb Long before it happened, Soldier knew the end of his world was coming. In truth, it was only as a consequence of his caste that Soldier appreciated better than most where the threat to their small …
Yesterdays’ Heroes
‘I am the greatest’, was his catch cry and he was right. However, for Ali he was fortunate to have been a star of the sixties and seventies when free to air television was the king maker. I recall our …
Marcus Lopes : Freestyle Love
Freestyle Love When it comes to one-night stands, Malachi Bishop has “rules”. No pillow talk. No sleeping over. No planning a future hook-up. First names only. It’s just sex, not a prelude to love. But when Cole Malcolm, a smooth-talking …
Can You Remember When?
It’s easy to take things for granted, but it really isn’t so long ago that there was no Internet and faxes were the coolest communication tool going. Growing up in a small city stuck on the far west coast or …
Short Story – Bleeding By Oscar Howell
Bleeding Foolishly, I caught my finger in a gauge and it started bleeding. It was late at night. I put a bandage and went to bed. At first I really thought nothing of this incident. The next morning I woke …
Sociable Or Marketable?
What do you use social networking for? Making new friends and acquaintances? Keeping in touch with family and friends? Or marketing your yourself, your book or your recipe blog? As maturity of new platforms on the Internet takes a couple …
The Taleist 2012 Self-Publishing Survey
How are you doing as a self-publisher? It’s a hard question to answer isn’t it? What are you measuring against? Steven Lewis, better known as The Taleist to many of you, is taking a professional snapshot of the self-publishing industry. …
Free Kindle eBook Weekend
Put a note in you calendars for this weekend if you would like to grab two of my novels for FREE for your Kindle. If you haven’t got a Kindle, don’t worry. You can grab them and read them with …
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