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My views on the new Kindle Paperwhite
Image from Redmondpie: http://goo.gl/Arfa5 Today Amazon announced a range of new products which all frankly look pretty amazing, both for ebook readers and general consumers of digital content. I’m starting to get the impression towards the end of 2012 that a number of computing platforms are
Progress report on OGJ
Microsoft Word nowhere to be seen I’ve been at work a lot this week due to it being the end of the summer holidays in Skegness, so have not had many opportunities to write. I have also been busy reading Nick Bullock’s excellent new book in time to
Review: Echoes: One Climber’s Hard Road to Freedom
Echoes: One Climber’s Hard Road to Freedom, by Nick Bullock This book has just been released in the UK. My rating: 4 of 5 stars Echoes is a striking book with an evocative cover photo featuring Nick surmounting a cornice–or so we assume. On reading the photo description
The creation of the Kindle Edition of “The Only Genuine Jones”
The Kindle Edition — fresh from the press Things are starting to happen! Recently I have been sending out an advance reading copy of my book to various people, but that was only a rough mock-up in terms of formatting, straight out of Microsoft Word (and hence a very quick and
Technology for writers, a second look
I promised (or threatened) this blog would have occasional articles about technology, didn’t I? It may seem out of place given the Victorian subject matter, but I’ve always been fascinated by computers and I find that modern computing devices give the writer some frankly amazing abilities. I’m
Blurb and pitching woes
Work on The Only Genuine Jones is progressing very well. Today I made another read-through of the manuscript–very much a loose-ends edit–and picked up a couple of errors that have filtered down through the years of drafting, rewriting, and editing. Apart from these very minor points I can
The quest for the sublime in the Alps
In this blog post I’d like to talk a bit about how I’m trying to connect the late 18th / early 19th century concept of the ‘sublime’ (and by extension, Romanticism) with my work. First, some definitions. According to Wikipedia, “the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality
Review: A Lakeland Climbing Pioneer: John Wilson Robinson of Whinfell Hall
From UKC: http://goo.gl/dzF6x This review was originally published on UKClimbing.com in July 2008. Link A Lakeland Climbing Pioneer: John Wilson Robinson of Whinfell Hall by Michael Waller My rating: 4 of 5 stars Who was John Wilson Robinson? Most climbers with an interest in history will
Editing, writing, and writing about editing and writing
OK perhaps not truly “END” just yet, but it is the end of the beginning. I’ve had a very busy and productive week working on both of my current projects. To break up my series of character profiles a little (which I’m pleased to see many readers are
Work begins on ‘Alpine Dawn’
Somerset House, Strand, in the 1840s. The action begins in the street near this spot on Christmas Eve, 1847. After months of very hard work, on Saturday I realised I had run out of things that needed doing before I could start writing my new novel. The realisation was a