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31.Dec Today's Links
30.Dec Today's Links
29.Dec Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
29.Dec Luke O'Neil is good on viral media's 'ouroboros of shit'
29.Dec Today's Links
23.Dec In the shadow of my mother’s suicide
22.Dec Today's Links
21.Dec I can do a 2013 list too, damnit
20.Dec Today's Links
19.Dec Today's Links
18.Dec Super easy blogging with Jekyll, Dropbox and IFTTT
18.Dec Today's Links
17.Dec Of publishers and giftanebook
16.Dec Bread
16.Dec Amazon’s Multi-Million Dollar Publishing Experiment Fizzles as Indie Titles Claim Amazon's Best-Seller List
15.Dec Today's Links
14.Dec Oldie, but I'm fond of it.
14.Dec Today's Links
14.Dec Is Bookbub Still An Effective Sales Tool?
14.Dec eBay puts user data on a “silver platter” for law enforcement
13.Dec Oh, a Tory survey
13.Dec Today's Links
11.Dec US bank renews decade-old patent for a Bitcoin-esque currency system
11.Dec Today's Links
10.Dec Apparently magic will save books
09.Dec Today's Links
07.Dec Today's Links
07.Dec Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left
07.Dec Adam Curtis - What the Fluck?
07.Dec Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel.
06.Dec Pixar's 22 rules to phenomenal storytelling
15.Nov Charlie Stross on WWI
14.Nov Shut It Down
04.Nov No Names, Jackets, Future
15.Oct Pornorama
09.Oct The Matchbook damp squib
08.Oct Andrew Wylie is no Amazon fan
04.Oct Holy living shit
03.Oct The Snowden files: why the British public should be worried about GCHQ
02.Oct Jekyll and hide
17.Sep Somewhat refreshing
07.Sep NSA surveillance: how to stay secure
24.Aug Review: WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CAPES OF HEROPA?
21.Aug Trestle Press/Helping Hands Press/Michael Brachelli and so on
21.Aug Fiction in 2043: a load of old toss
15.Aug 07.Aug 24.Jul 3NJ stats: thoughts
17.Jul The new gatekeepers
12.Jul Apple, Amazon, and all that
08.Jul 03.Jul 28.Jun Some notes on 3NJ
24.Jun 21.Jun An Introduction To Author Services, Part 1
20.Jun 18.Jun These aren't about books but could be
18.Jun Silence
05.Jun 04.Jun The City Of Lost Children
29.May 28.May Facts & figures: violent crime in the US and UK
27.May 26.May 14.May BSP: Murder Park sale
10.May 09.May Quick thoughts on the Nook thing
11.Mar The Mad Detective
04.Mar One Chance
24.Feb The Observer On Self-Publishing
21.Feb 08.Feb One Ebook, Slightly Used
08.Feb 08.Feb Here Is A Thing With Monsters
04.Feb How Not To Fix Amazon's Review System
02.Feb 01.Feb Amazon's Magic Of The Insane
14.Jan In Crime Fiction, (Almost) Nothing Changes
07.Jan Halfway Done
2012
25.Dec 14.Dec The Darkerness Insiderer
01.Dec In Which I Destroy Philadelphia
24.Nov Weekend Writing: The Frankenovel
16.Nov A Writer's Cut
14.Nov Why I Hate Why Book Publishers Hate Authors
01.Nov Amazon Reviewhouhaha
31.Oct 29.Oct 22.Oct 20.Oct Novel In 30 Days? Try 3.
06.Oct Character Recognition: Lessons In OCR
05.Oct 27.Sep Crawling Back
26.Sep To Charity And Beyond!
11.Sep 10.Sep 09.Sep 07.Sep Again, Really?
04.Sep The Invader
03.Sep Open Letter On Author Behaviour
01.Sep The Great Ellory Leather Sock Review Tosser Caper
22.Aug Trestle Press, Yet Again
22.Aug 20.Aug The Book Cover Archive
20.Aug Some Notes: Murder Park
08.Aug StoryBundle
07.Aug 04.Aug Planet Money: The Cost Of Free Doughnuts
31.Jul 24.Jul 23.Jul Leather, Tossers & Ebooks
19.Jul Murder Park #02: "Holdness"
16.Jul In Which I Have A Story To Tell You
09.Jul 06.Jul 05.Jul Useful OS X Stuff: Resuminator
04.Jul 30.Jun Scrivener: Compiling for MultiMarkdown
27.Jun And the results are in!
22.Jun Review: Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
21.Jun 20.Jun 19.Jun 16.Jun Mina Angela: Manila Gangs
15.Jun Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%
13.Jun 10.Jun Email frolics: It seems I run @RapSheetmag
27.May 27.May Matt and Asia’s Minecraft wedding
26.May Book Places in the Digital Age
21.May Would the last bookseller out please turn off the lights?
21.May 18.May 17.May 11.May 10.May 06.May I need a wig for I am judging
04.May 03.May Why the Publishers Association should walk the plank
26.Apr 26.Apr 25.Apr 24.Apr Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free
19.Apr Maths: "ebooks are 10% less to produce"
15.Apr KDP: licensed to ill
15.Apr 29.Mar The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
22.Mar 19.Mar 16.Mar 12.Mar Curated: swearing in fiction
05.Mar 03.Mar 02.Mar 01.Mar 23.Feb Lengthy: Software, Editing, Gadgets
14.Feb They Shoot Novels, Don't They?
10.Feb 08.Feb A Kids Story: Billy McPugh & The Monsters' Ball
07.Feb 06.Feb 05.Feb Aar! Take Two
04.Feb Thank You, And Good Night
03.Feb MY BAD - Anthony Neil Smith: 2012
02.Feb Aar, A Writer's Life For Me
01.Feb Trestle Press, Art Theft
01.Feb 31.Jan The Ghost Of Book Puns Past
30.Jan The self-epublishing bubble
30.Jan Ebooks Encourage Authors To Stare At Their Shoes Instead Of Shoot For The Stars
25.Jan "And then I pass the front door, and all these nurses are standing out front, and they're all crying. They're watching us, and they're crying. And I didn't know why they were crying. I was like, Why are they crying?"
20.Jan iBooks Author Rage
13.Jan 07.Jan 07.Jan 06.Jan 05.Jan 04.Jan
2011
31.Dec Above Us Only Sky
23.Dec The Lego Question, And A Theological Query
15.Dec 09.Dec 08.Dec 06.Dec 28.Nov Off The Record
25.Nov Project 1: Stats
20.Nov This Week In Facts: Water & The EU
14.Nov 12.Nov Five Cognitive Biases That Prove Your Brain Hates Science
09.Nov 26.Oct Tonight, My Dulcet Tones
25.Oct Chuck Wendig's Shotgun Gravy
21.Oct Distribution in the Digital Age
10.Oct Delisting From The Big A
05.Oct Article: The Double Life Of The Split Parent
02.Oct 30.Sep 29.Sep DX:HR
26.Sep ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS
18.Sep Home
14.Sep Of Work And The Race Against Children
13.Sep 13.Sep 10.Sep I Don't Know How They All Do It
08.Sep Lessons In Plotting 4: Editing
06.Sep Lessons In Plotting 3: Scenes
05.Sep 03.Sep @ChuckWendig's 100-Word Challenge: FALLS (Reposted Because I'm An Idiot)
01.Sep Lessons In Plotting 2: Character
01.Sep 31.Aug 31.Aug 31.Aug 31.Aug Lessons In Plotting 1: Running
29.Aug Progress
28.Aug 24.Aug 23.Aug 18.Aug Article: Past & Present
11.Aug 11.Aug 09.Aug Work: The Updatening
06.Aug Jurassic Park: Remembering Petticoat Lane
04.Aug 30.Jul 28.Jul Secret of Happiness is to be Thankful
25.Jul 22.Jul Harrogate
17.Jul 14.Jul 13.Jul 12.Jul Wake 3: Me
12.Jul The Fall Of The House Of Murdoch
11.Jul Wake 2: Hotel
10.Jul 06.Jul Update: Money, Figures
06.Jul Good Show Sir - Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers
05.Jul 05.Jul Also, @lucaveste interviews me here, the handsome devil.
27.Jun Wake 1: Spy
24.Jun 16.Jun 15.Jun Figures: The Belgian Death Industry
11.Jun TRG Sample: Port Blackwater
09.Jun 08.Jun Guest Embloggenation By Yours Truly
08.Jun Criminal-E Me
08.Jun 3 In 10 Stories Can Misreport Book Stats
05.Jun AYLB Review From @dotcomaphobe
04.Jun This Is Plot Country
01.Jun ALL YOU LEAVE BEHIND Out, New Direct Store Site, & No Twitter Spam
27.May Brief Further: Ebooks, Mosby, Linkage
26.May Price, Insanity And The Race To The Bottom
16.May Saving pets after Rapture
16.May Advice
12.May TRG Gets A New Paperback Cover
07.May 04.May One Last AV Thing
04.May AV, Me?
02.May 01.May 28.Apr 27.Apr Old South Pole Station
24.Apr "Under a new budget proposal from [Republican] State Sen. Bruce Casswell [of Michigan], children in the state’s foster care system would be allowed to purchase clothing only in used clothing stores."
24.Apr New Graphene Paper: Light, Strong, and Crazy Flexible
23.Apr BuyMyShitter.com
22.Apr Short story: Covehithe by China Miéville
21.Apr PSA: A History Of Easter
14.Apr Reblog: Flip the Switch
07.Apr Outlining: A Guide
04.Apr Once More Unto Review
04.Apr Big Family
02.Apr Out In Time For Easter
25.Mar TRG: Reviewage
23.Mar How to Bury a Hooker in the Nevada Desert
18.Mar 17.Mar 14.Mar Announcement
08.Mar Sometimes You Can Overplan These Things
09.Feb THE RAZOR GATE: "Pungent" says Mosby
20.Jan 18.Jan Bad News
17.Jan 14.Jan The Killer
2010
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