The candlelight is gleaming, soft jazz is playing, the fireplace is crackling, and you’re snuggled on the couch with the woman you love. You finger the diamond ring in your pocket. There’ll never be a better time to pop the question. You look deep into her eyes and say, “My darling, why don’t we get …
…than it is with Blurb.com. Traditional publishers won’t be quaking in their boots, but traditional vanity presses–and bottom-feeding writer-scamming con artists–ought to be. Design your book today and have it in a few days, one copy or as many as you want. Nothing could be simpler.
…so this doesn’t bother me at all. Reading the Swallows and Amazons books as a kid, the one thing that drove home to me the utter alienness of the culture depicted therein (1920s England) was the putting of milk in tea. Yuck!
I’ve been reading very interesting thread over at Paperback Writer about what an author “owes” a reader. Paperback Writer wrote: I don’t know what, if anything, writers actually “owe” readers. I always feel a responsibility to do my best work for the reader; that goes without saying. No one can write something that makes everyone …
…and then promptly killed it.
…when people start preaching inevitable doom and gloom climate-wise due to global warming, it puts my back up. Yet, when people try to tell me there is no such thing as climate change, it annoys me just as much. Where’s a middle-of-the-road, yes-there’s-a-problem-but-it-ain’t-the-end-of-the-world-yet kind of guy to do? Turns out there’s a whole middle ground …
Stephen Hawking is planning a trip into space for 2009, courtesy of Richard Branson at Virgin Galactic. I can’t think of anyone who deserves a free trip more.
…as seasonal search terms start to fade among those bringing people to edwardwillett.com. Here are the top 15 as of today, with links to where they lead: 35 physics of football 0.9% 35 how to make french fries 0.9% 28 flying reindeer 0.7% 27 hamoukar 0.7% 25 wine glasses 0.6% 24 time perception 0.6% 24 …
Paperback Writer is a blog by multi-pseudonymous writer S.L. Viehl that I’ve missed until now which suddenly (for obvious reasons, now that I have one book in paperback and another at the publisher’s) has great resonance with me. Particularly these two posts, the Devil’s Publishing Dictionary parts one and two. Many funny entries. Among my …
…goes weeks without washing, hygenically.
It’s a funny thing, this Web we weave. I was startled today to see visits to this blog suddenly jumping up from the usual 30 or so a day to (at last count) 260. The last time something like this happened was when Kate at small dead animals linked to a column on curling. So …
Check out these spectacular images of Saturn and environs just released by the Cassini team.
