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Polonius In Paperback(0)

December 22, 2011

Take a look at what is undoubtedly the oddest addition yet to my brag shelf*. These are my contributor copies of the paperback version of a play by Victor Cilinca that I helped translate into English from the original Romanian (without speaking a word of actual Romanian myself) over a decade ago. How’s that for [...]

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Developing World’s Collider I: The Pitch

As I previously mentioned, I’m delighted to find myself on the table of contents for the upcoming anthology World’s Collider, edited by the splendid Mr Richard Salter. The book is pitched as a novel in many voices, with each story contributing to an overall narrative of the world’s decline (caused by an explosion at the [...]

Living From Writing IV: Deadline

My final post about publishing, and striving to be a full time writer.It follows three other posts, here, here, and here. They give the background to this, so check them out first. You might well wonder why I’ve been blogging about the state of the publishing industry, and what I see as the ramifications of [...]

Living From Writing III: Brand New Day

This is post number three. It follows, naturally enough, from two previous posts, here and here. You should read those first, to understand where I’m coming from with this one. They’re slightly speculative, in that they’re my thoughts on what’s happening in publishing now, and what might happen next. They present grim reading for new [...]


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