And the Archangel Michael Ascended to Hachette Heaven

THE trouble with conventional wisdom is by the time it becomes widespread it is passé.

Take the old saw that a mainstream publisher will never pick up a self-published author. Not true now.

My book is 5 cents but I'm worried I have priced it too high

All you voracious readers out there, will you pay a fair price for a book? All you professional writers out there, will you accept a fair return on your labour, say $50, 000 and upwards a year?

 Yes from both.  Alright, we have solved the publishing crisis.

Dead books thrive

Rigid Male Ship Publishing

MUCH wailing at the wall and gnashing at the teeth follow from the recent ill fortunes of the publishing industry.

Newspapers are in the midst of a shake-up which is just beginning in book publishing

As a journalist and author, I appear to have accepted not one but two third-class seats on the Titanic.

Thankfully for books, it is not all doom and gloom.

English 2hard for base players

IN Australia, thousands  of  New South Wales high-school graduating students took their first HSC exam in English. Their results will determine their options for tertiary study.

It was all too easy for the semi-quality newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald to come up with a story on a too-hard English exam.

Free Spirit soars

FREE!  Free at last!

Not quite but Vision: The Reluctant Psychic is free this Saturday.

To sex or not to sex

THAT is the question: to sex or not to sex.

A lot of websites are saying no to sex.

On the first page of a Google search of mine, six websites had this exact same bait line: 'American Playwright David Mamet explains why no play or movie he writes or directs include explicit sex scenes.'

Oh! Calcutta! you are so quaint

As free as a the vision of a boirdy.

Jane Sharp's great new psychic thriller eBook goes free tomorrow so we should all support it to encourage the give-away and create a legion of fans.

Here is Jane's Twitter entry.

Jane Sauffs

10:26am Oct 5

My 1st book will be available free on Amazon(see link below) this Saturday Oct 6 (US time) 5 short stories featuring Detective Trudy Harper & her experiences with the paranormal, approx.48 pages. I would appreciate some reviews. Many thanks http://www.amazon.com/Vision-The-Reluctant-Psychic-ebook/dp/B008XI51VO/ref=tsm_1_tp_sw_lmhttp://www.amazon.com/Vision-The-Reluctant-Psychic-ebook/dp/B008XI51VO/ref=tsm_1_tp_sw_lm

What the heck,  my review is about the place if you wish to read on.