State Of The Union

Added on 18 March 2009

Times are bleak at Long Midnight Publishing. Book sales are down, web hits are down. The Barney Thomson series, which at one time looked poised on the precipice of greatness, at the very cusp of taking over from Harry Potter as the Number 1 book series on Planet Earth Ever, has once more sunk back i...

Stuff

Added on 17 March 2009

Have finished the first re-write of The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, in its transmogrification into The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt. Stopped counting the mistakes that were in the original text. Well, to be honest, I never actually started counting the mistakes. There were a lot of mistakes. Now I...

New Covers & New Dylan

Added on 13 March 2009

Here's a link to Mojo's description of the new Dylan album. Sounds great... if you can believe it, and if you like Dylan, because obviously if you don't, it sounds much like everything else. And in even more exciting news, here are some more cover ideas for the proposed re-release of the Barney Thom...

You Can't Step Twice In The Same Custard

Added on 11 March 2009

Currently reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim. The reviewer from Newsweek stated that Kundera has raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity. The clue to The Unbearable Lightness of Being is in that ...

How News Works No.3156

Added on 10 March 2009

New Dylan album out at the end of April. I Feel A Change Coming On, it appears to be called. An album of new songs, not yet another rehash of Blowing' In The Wind and Forever Young. Some people might think this is exciting news and some people might not care. We're split 1-3 in our house. Yesterday ...