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Writing Dialogue

While noodling around the internet, after following a number of links and then following their links I happened upon an interesting site: Write and Publish Your Book. In fact, I landed on the current lead story: Common Mistakes for Beginning Writers (written by Nancy Moore). What leapt out at me the most was that I [...]

Wowio.com – Free Books. Free Minds

If you browse through my Links page, clicking merrily away, you will have seen that I link to Yirmumah – a funny site, you should read it – by D J Coffman. For a few years now he has been publishing his strips in book format and selling them to readers around the world. Well, [...]

The Book With No Name – Anonymous

This book was first seen on the internet, the author followed up by self-publishing it and then a publisher picked it up. It’s origins do show in the writing and the pace, however towards the middle of the book it settles down nicely and becomes a fast paced well-written humourous book. The book tells the [...]

Storm Front (The Dresden Files Book One) – Jim Butcher

One of the dangers, for me, of reviewing a series of books is that I read so quickly that by the time I’m ready to write a review I have to review them all in one fell swoop. I won’t do that with The Dresden Files: firstly, because the way they are written demands a [...]

Hero By Night Comic

Anyone who looks at my Links page (which is, admittedly, tricky since the link to the Links page disappeared) will have seen a … link … to Hero By Night comic. UPDATE….. TheLinks link is back now….. A little backstory: aside from occasionally checking out graphic novels from the library (Neil Gaiman, DC, Marvel and, [...]

LibraryThing.com Again

Back in January, I posted about LibraryThing.com. Well I’m doing it again. I have now updated my book collection and so you should all run over to my library and see what’s been added. You should also see the thing in the sidebar to the right show the same books less times. I hope.