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.

Amazon declares me profane

Amazon thinks we are profane.

They said my profile was unacceptable because it contained a profanity. WTF! I carefully re-read my profile and tried a few changes but the message came back: PROFANE
I deleted the only remaining  thing I could see they might object to. Sure enough, the new version passed muster.

On the road to Damascus Paul’s book pummels your brain

IF The Book of Paul were a music album, a critic might say it had cross-over appeal.

It has a feel of a genre novel but it is hard to classify because of its elements of sci-fi, dystopia, psychological drama and comedy.

I believe its publicity machine  is running with supernatural thriller and that is a good as label as any.

I read not much genre fiction apart from Chandleresque private-detective yarns. While I say ’’not much’ , none at all is closer to the mark.

New York author Richard Long was able to hook me and keep me on the line until the end. That is a good effort as, before reading The Book of Paul, I thought tarot was an Asian root vegetable. 

Richard like John in his own write

Day 4 of the Book of Paul tour is here.

Today we have a guest post from the author Richard Long.

Welcome to the Save the Book blog, Richard.

Make yourself at home. Can I get you a cup of coffee?

No, you want to get started. Fire  away!