OK, size does matter. Well, it may do in certain circumstances. But in books? Is a blockbuster of many hundreds of pages any better than a slim volume containing less than 50,000 words? On indie writer websites there often seems to be a boastful preoccupation with the sheer size of a work we are being…
Despicable though it is that personal websites are being hacked and the material widely distributed, it is difficult to have much sympathy for the “personalities” who suffer such indignities. If you do allow yourself to be photographed in the all-together, why post the results on the internet if they are intended strictly for private consumption?…
When the question was first posed I wanted to yell “No” at my computer. In fact, I think I did, secure in the privacy of my own home. It is a question that confronts users of the internet almost every day. And one that continues to irritate the pedant in me. Will I accept cookies? No, I will…
Today, like many other Facebook users, I received a request to share a post. It featured a picture of a clean-cut looking young man, neatly attired and with a pleasant, open face. His name was provided, along with a few words alleging that he was visiting animal rescue centres with the specific aim of obtaining…
Relationships are funny things, and not in a humorous way. They are even more difficult and complex than relations and, God knows, they’re tricky enough to deal with. But relationships, they’re a real hornet’s nest. We dive into them carefree and unthinking, full of the joie de vivre of the new and buoyed by expectations…
Ah, the irony of it all. The past few days have seen a deluge of posts on a Facebook group’s site populated by Australian authors. The focus of their attention has been a single word: zephyr. A writer who had penned the line a zephyr of wind caressed the land was asking if there could be…
Eureka! Bingo! Hellsapoppin’ … and other expressions of delight and discovery; I do believe the seemingly interminable search for a British cafe that understands the words “a long black” is at last over. And in one of the more unlikely locations, too. Up and down this cafe-crowded land a request from this caffeine addict for…