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It’s Read an eBook Week

And guess which ebook I hope everyone is reading
With between 200 and 300 per cent growth year-on-year in the ebook market (different surveys call it different ways) you wouldn’t think there was much need for such an event, but there is.
It isn’t just that there is entrenched, almost paranoid resistance to ebooks among [...]

The Twitter Tour Starts Now

The TimeSplash Non-Stop 24-hour Round-the-World Twitter Tour starts soon. The process is complicated but all you need to know is that I’ll be in your timezone between 7pm and 8pm during the next 24 hours. To shout out to me as I go by, send me a tweet on Twitter.
This is my Twitter ID:  @graywave  [...]

TimeSplash is Now on Sale

At last, it’s February 15 New York time, and Once Upon a Bookstore, my publisher’s own online bookshop, is now selling copies of TimeSplash.
Get your copy here
Please, everybody, pass on this message. Retweet it, Digg it, Stumble it, and tell all your friends on Facebook. You can even mention it to people in real life, [...]

Top 10 Book Promotion Tactics

A survey of book promotion tactics was conducted by The Savvy Book Marketer in December, 2009, and is reported today. It asked a number of authors what their book promotion strategy would involve in 2010. You can check the method and the outcome there. I just want to look at the list of tactics they [...]

The New York Journal of Books and Me

Please say hello to the newest member of The New York Journal of Books‘ reviews team. And, while you’re at it, why not nip across and have a look at my first review for this new, online book review journal. (Actually, if you read my recent review here of Dawkins’ Oxford Book of Modern Science [...]

Crowds of Eyeballs

My perception of the Web has changed. I used to think it was full of people like me, ordinary folk, going about their business, finding things that interested them, chatting to friends and acquaintances, but I was wrong. Oh, there may be such people – millions of them – but they don’t really matter. What [...]

Looking Backwards and Forwards

I’ve been looking at 2009 to check how I’ve been doing against my writerly ambitions. It’s pretty good, overall. I got eight shorts stories published and placed in two competitions. I also won a write-a-quote competition! I also had my two first print publications (both short stories in anthologies). Although I actually made money by [...]

The Shouter and the Chanter in Alien Skin

Hot on the heels of my last publication announcement (see below) I bring you ‘The Shouter and the Chanter’ which is out now in Alien Skin.
I very much enjoy writing and reading flash fiction and this is the second time I have had a piece appear in Alien Skin (thanks guys). People often say that [...]

All The Way: Out Now in The Future Fire

With all this frantic editing and book publicising going on, I forgot to mention something very important to me. My short story, ‘All the Way’ has just been published in The Future Fire.
If you don’t know this magazine, you should probably download some of their PDF editions and have a browse. The Future Fire deliberately [...]

TimeSplash Update

Just to let you know that the cover art for my upcoming novel, TimeSplash, has arrived. I’ve blogged about it on the TimeSplash blog (see it there). I’ve also updated the TimeSplash website to include it.
Comments on the cover and on the website are welcome.