Lost Works II

Added on 30 September 2010

Continuing the untold story of the unpublished novels... Yesterday there was the completely forgotten and dreadful lost manuscript of the Manhattan Project, the not quite so bad but still pretty awful lost manuscript The Tarrantino Version, and concluding with the inexcusably fetid rubbish of lost ...

Lost Works

Added on 29 September 2010

Have been thinking about books that I've written and which have remained unpublished. Not sure why I started the thought process. Maybe I was thinking about being dead, and leaving a legacy of rubbish novels that someone, somewhere might read. Because I was dead. And, notwithstanding the fact that I...

The Ryder Cup Doughnut-Monster

Added on 28 September 2010

This is the week of the Ryder Cup, the most bloated, over-hyped sporting competition on the calendar, which is some achievement given all the others; the only event on Planet Earth where it is demanded of us that we get excited about Europe as a sporting entity. Here at Long Midnight Publishing we ...

The Coming Apocalypse

Added on 27 September 2010

Walking up to school the other day with Two of Two, the wee man mentioned that his mate had told him about the YouTube video on the bursting of the biggest zit in the world. "There's blood and puss and you shouldn't watch it before dinner..." was the general thrust of his discussion. He ha...

The Bookseller Arrives

Added on 24 September 2010

The Bookseller arrives, bringing with it the usual waves of depressing news about a) how badly the publishing industry is doing and that we're all doomed, and conversely, b) how well individual authors are doing, with fabulous book sales, or fabulous deals through fabulous agents for fabulous first-...