Wet dreams and the unfinished revolution
ONE hundred years ago the Irish Revolution reached its bloody climax. In May 1921 a treaty gave the people of...
The loneliness of a long distance Christmas
MY wife sometimes accuses me of a ‘bah humbug’ attitude to the festive season but the truth is I enjoy...
Independent Self-Publishing 4
The regeneration of an old book One of the many aspects of the self-publishing business that I enjoy, is the...
In the shadow of Uncle Sam
THE Shakespearean drama that is the Presidential election in the United States reaches a climax on November 3 and will...
Independent Self-Publishing 2
There are new authors who think that the only route to publication is the traditional one. For a long time,...
Independent Self-Publishing 1
When I first started self-publishing with my book An Unexpected Diagnosis several years ago, I almost gave up on the...
Who was A.C. Clarke?
A few days ago, we had a joiner in to fix an old real wood floor. It had that sound...
Book Scams
A recent article by my publisher, BookBaby, on warning potential self-publishers to be aware of unscrupulous publisher businesses, brought to...
The Value of a Good Book
I was looking through a selection of quotes recently on what books mean to their readers, and as you can...
I Was Nearly a Film Star
In terms of being a ‘star’, the title is a little misleading, but on a couple of occasions I was...