Raindance

Added on 20 September 2010

Attended the Lo-To-No Budget filmmaking course at Raindance in London this weekend. Everything you need to know about making a movie and getting it distributed when you have very little, or no, money. The course was run by Canadian independent film producer Elliot Grove, and pretty much consisted of...

Another Epoch-Making Moment In Publishing History

Added on 17 September 2010

Finally, the wait is over and The King Was In His Counting House is available for download on Amazon Kindle. Uploaded to the Amazon website - to coincide with the Pope's arrival in Britain, the reconciliation of Wayne and Coleen and Joe Cole's first goal for Liverpool - millions of fans worldwide ca...

An Ingenious Plan To Cure Opera

Added on 16 September 2010

Funny thing opera. On the one hand it's the absolute pinnacle of human artistic achievement. So many different facets of art welded into one, of music and drama and storytelling. Orchestral music, itself, is a wonder, so many varied instruments blended into one perfect whole; add in the story and th...

And The Doughnut Eaters Shall Inherit The Girth

Added on 15 September 2010

Work continues here at Long Midnight Publishing Headquarters, in our new executive office suite high above Central Park in the very heart of Manhattan's publishing district, on getting the next book in the Barney Thomson series ready for e-publication. The King Was In His Counting House should be du...

Making The List

Added on 14 September 2010

Last week's Bookseller had an interesting list of the Top 10 authors with the greatest number of No.1 books since records began. (Unlike weather records and the pop hit parade, these records only began in 1998. Who knows what they did before that? Possibly it was just someone else other than Nielsen...