The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]
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Last week a couple of people on authonomy made some constructive comments and suggested I stay off the site for a while and rewrite the opening. I think they were sick of me hogging the Shameless Spam forum. So I took their advice, and I’m still working on version X, but while I’ve been away [...]
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Price Delivery Impartiality Integrity Economy Thoroughness Service Accuracy and Tiger Hugs Oh yes. And here’s an update on my viral marketing campaign for TH. The thread so far: Belief Systems Northern Exposure How Can People Change? Sometimes I Feel Like Throwing My Hands Up in the Air Do You Believe in Free Will? Circling the [...]
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Or Perversity and the Anti-thesis of Everything Courtesy of the World of Publishing In my constant search for gems, I found a 400 word blurb for A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Haven’t read the book. Can’t comment, but the blurb that appears on every bookseller web site encapsulates the negativity of [...]
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As you probably know if you’ve been following Super Mario, in September I uploaded my novel Tiger Hugs on Harper Collins’s web site for aspiring authors, authonomy. A few title changes and a radical rewrite later, it’s gaining support, probably because other authors are away at November’s National Novel Writing Month website NaNoWriMo. It’s a novel about something, [...]
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Last night I went to see an am-dram production in the village hall of John Dole’s (who?) play ‘Lucky For Some’. Never heard of it? Same here. Set in an English holiday camp in the nineteen-sixties, it was always going to be a Hi-Di-Hi farce, but nothing prepared me for the embarrassing misery of ‘Lucky [...]
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For a vegetarian, the five-a-day advice is akin to asking a marathon runner to walk to work. If we didn’t do five pieces of fruit and veg a day, we wouldn’t eat anything. A bit of bread and cheese perhaps. So, I have an ongoing argument with my “five-a-day” preaching partner. We shouldn’t be doing [...]
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The opening to my novel Tiger Hugs satirises the fashion for in media res narrative. In media res is Latin for stuck-in-the-mud. Of course, I know it’s actually Latin for in-the-middle, a place where shadows materialise in no such place, go nowhere and say nothing. It’s just next door to the status quo, and it’s the same old, same [...]
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