Archive for March, 2010
Bunny suicides
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010The success of ebooks on the iPhone is revealed with some new figures here from the Apple app store.
At the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, Peter Collingridge of Enhanced Editions gave an interesting presentation about ebooks and reading habits. For example the average reading time is 24 minutes, and whilst Nick Cave’s The Death of [...]
Writer’s block
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010Some advice from Ian Rankin - his 10 rules for writing fiction:
Read lots
Write lots
Learn to be self-critical
Learn what criticism to accept
Be persistent
Have a story worth telling
Don’t give up
Know the market
Get lucky
Stay lucky
You can read the full set of advice in the Guardian here
Bacardi and World Book Day
Monday, March 1st, 2010This week sees the annual World Book Day in the UK and Ireland - Thursday 4 March. (Curiously the rest of the world celebrates the day on 23 April.) There will be a range of events, from fancy dress to readings by famous authors, to encourage kids to read books, as well as the gift of [...]
