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I don’t usually indulge in rants. When I do, I try to keep it impersonal and avoid anything even approaching flame-like behaviour.
There’s always a first time, though.
And this first time’s a doozy. Because I am well and truly riled up.
Some people seem to have no idea about the real world and no capacity for putting [...]

How to Get Free Publicity for Your Fiction

Step 1: Make your fiction available, free, online. This might be via a blog platform (like WordPress), or a dedicated online content management system (like Drupal), or a PDF/text file/HTML page uploaded to your own web site.
Step 2: Join Twitter.
Step 3: Follow @onlinefiction.
Step 4: Send me a Direct Message, or just mention my name in [...]

Hehe

I know it’s flippant.
I know it might just be offensive to just about anyone.
But it made me laugh…

Just Call Me Crack Whore

Well, OK, don’t, because I’ll probably slap you.
GAH – Stop muttering about me contradicting myself and pay attention!
I found an Australian site called EcoYarns.
While the customer service (answering emails, and the like) seems a little lacking, the products have me, ummm, drooling.
The compulsive knitters among us are bound to agree – beautiful yarns are like [...]

The Difference an Education Can Make…

I’ve been listening to Mental As Anything a fair bit lately. One of my favourite songs – in my more mellow moments – is Dorothy Parker’s Hair. Which, sadly, I can’t find a YouTube clip for. Sigh.
Anyhow, it talks about what a vicious, sadistic theatre critic she was, and how ‘if she was alive, she’d [...]

I’m Not Dead (Again)

Once again, I’ve wandered off for a large period of time.
Three main reasons:
1. I was on holiday for a week, and couldn’t be bothered doing anything.
2. Then I got sick. Because that’s the way it goes, of course.
3. Our home internet is stuffed with a capital F. Anyone considering Virgin, Dodo or Optus Broadband based [...]