Incident At Black Rock

Added on 02 November 2008

Despite the school holidays last week, I managed to get work going properly on The Final Cut. The initial process of going over the already-written manuscript, known as Limited Edition, and making the fairly sweeping changes that I think are going to be necessary. It was only for a few hours one aft...

The Month In Statistics

Added on 01 November 2008

Website hits up 73% Book sales up 5.3% There’s probably an algorithm somewhere linking website hits to sales, created by an American wearing a Seahawks sweatshirt and working for Microsoft, but I’m not going to look for it. Due to these figures, there are obviously rumours starting to ci...

Waiting Game For The Long Midnight Reprint

Added on 31 October 2008

A waiting game in the reprint of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. Waiting games are bad. Waiting games lead to stress. Unlike the banjo wait, which wasn’t particularly stressful because, in the end, if the banjo hadn’t arrived I would just have got one from somewhere else - sure, Pol...

Wrestling A Doughnut

Added on 30 October 2008

I came across a phrase yesterday I’d never heard before. It’s like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired, you stop when the gorilla’s tired. I put it into Google, and it appears to be this incredibly well known phrase, not quite up there with you can tak...

Banjo Watch - Day 11

Added on 29 October 2008

Got an e-mail from BobDylan.Com last night. The e-mails arrive with Bob Dylan in the From column, as if Bob himself might have written to you. He’s playing a concert in New York City on 21st November, and only people who visit BobDylan.Com to get the password will be able to buy a ticket. I sa...