I discovered Ikimono-Gakari on a recent trip to Japan and the emotion of the music touched me, though I didn’t understand all the words. I looked up the lyrics, but there really was no …
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Today’s Writing Soundtrack: Ikimono-Gakari
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Australia is entirely peopled by convicts.
Offended? If so, like the staff and some passengers on a Qantas flight, recently, you don’t watch the right movies. I had to share this report that I received via The Princess Bride Facebook page, …
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A Quick Word on Endorsement Swapping Online
I’ve been receiving emails, several via this blog email, asking if I would be willing to swap endorsements, for no other reason than quid pro quo, and I wanted to put on record my view …
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Windmills of Your Mind – Calm down and Write Track
Starting again at midnight requires a slightly different “get up and go” track 🙂
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Smart Bitches on Crack
Now there’s a headline I’ll remember! On their podcast of Janury 9th,  2013, Sarah Wendell (of Smart Bitches, Trashy Books) and Jane Litt (of Dear Author), among other things, answered a listener’s mail which asked them …
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Get Up and Go Track: The Rest of My Life
Artist:  Ludacris ft. Usher and David GuettaNot usually a Ludacris fan, but this got me smiling and motivated, today 🙂
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British Sci Fi Awards Shortlist
Best novel Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) Empty Space: a Haunting by M John Harrison (Gollancz) Intrusion by Ken Macleod (Orbit) Winner: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) Best short story “Immersion” by …
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Kitschies SF Awards Shortlist
The Red Tentacle (best novel) The Folly of the World by Jesse Bullington (Orbit) Winner: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (Heinemann) A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan) Jack Glass by Adam Roberts (Gollancz) The Method by Juli Zeh (translated by …
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Review: The Mon Over Two Millennia, ed. Patrick McCormick et. al.
The Mon Over Two Millennia: Monuments, Manuscripts, Movements by McCormick PatrickMy rating: 3 of 5 stars As my first introduction to the Mon culture, this was hard going, as it is a collection of academic …
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Review: The Daily Show Presents: Earth (The Audio Book)
Earth (The Audiobook): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon StewartMy rating: 1 of 5 stars **Audio Book Review** While the rest of the cast did a superb job, if he’s going to …
