Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Free ebook and a review!

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Summer give-away by The Friday Project: the ebook version of The State of Me is available as a free download for a limited period ! I was ...
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Goats going by ambulance

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I loved this extract, 'The Saint of Pakistan' - from Benjamin Gilmour's 'Paramédico', published by The Friday Project -...
Monday, 17 December 2012

Tinsel and Heated Rollers

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This is the micro story I contributed to Caroline's fundraising ebook in late spring , 100 RPM. Every story had to be one hundred words...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

Being grabbed by one sentence

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This spring and summer I've been reading fiction and non-fiction from Pakistan and India. As I've said before,  I feel slightly ...
Thursday, 31 May 2012

100 RPM - stories inspired by music

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100 RPM, a gorgeously designed ebook anthology, is released today, the project of Caroline Smailes,  whose enthusiasm is irrepressible and...
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Monday, 16 April 2012

Damp

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Writing on the good and bad of Kindle, Fictionbitch says : My whole life has been wedded to the physicality of books and their shelves, th...
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Thursday, 22 March 2012

Compelling, disturbing, bleakly funny

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There has been much buzz around 99 Reasons Why because of the choice of eleven endings, however, I quickly forgot about this quirk when I ...
Friday, 16 March 2012

99 reasons why I should go back to my Kindle

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I keep almost forgetting I've got a Kindle but on Monday I will be eagerly downloading Caroline Smailes' innovative ebook 99 Reaso...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

Silly billies

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Delighted for Caroline Smailes that her new ebook 99 Reasons Why is creating such a buzz. Having Karachi roots, I was especially chuffed t...
Sunday, 19 February 2012

'E-books can't burn': essay by Tim Parks

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'Only the sequence of the words must remain inviolate. We can change everything about a text but the words themselves and the order the...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

The Opposite of Kindle

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Some days ago, I saw an elderly man on the bus reading an old, battered blue hardback - it had no jacket. He was mouthing the words to himse...
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Sunday, 27 November 2011

Two lovely things

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Congratulations to Kitty Aldridge and the other winners of the Bridport Prize 2011 , announced yesterday! I was v. chuffed to make the shor...
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011

A modern thought

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I'm reading - and loving - a second-hand copy of The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen. Pages 17 and 18 fell out when I first opened i...
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Saturday, 3 September 2011

A few words...

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I saw my book as an ebook for the first time, last night, my friend brought over her new Kindle. I'd seen the 'raw' epub file on...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Shameless

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Some shameless self-promotion for which I apologise (to myself mostly), it feels a bit wrong with all that is going on, but the Kindle vers...
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Saturday, 14 May 2011

Tweets & Kindles & Tulips

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Am almost afraid to blog after the last few days of chaos, previous comments still not restored, but I just want to link to an excellent pos...
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Staggering

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I love this quote from historical crime novelist Diana Norman - wife of Barry Norman, the film critic - who sadly died recently: 'I s...
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Friday, 31 December 2010

Rosy and not rosy

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I'm sorry if you got a Kindle for Christmas and wanted perhaps to download The State of Me - the e-book is still not showing on Amazon ...
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Monday, 29 November 2010

50 Stories as ebook

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The fabulous fundraising anthology 50 Stories for Pakistan is now available as an ebook from Smashwords.com . (I wish I could say the same ...
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Friday, 5 November 2010

Is the Wizard of Oz the magic behind ebooks?

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Epublishing seems so random, I think there is a drugged up Wizard of Oz behind it all. I heard today - through Twitter - that The State of M...