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Launch of ememess.com

Loath though I am to steal the thunder of whatever trivial piece of news Apple has for us later in the week, I'm delighted to announce the launch of Ememess Press, a site dedicated to the short fiction of, well… me. The site comes courtesy of the web wizardry of Fictitious Bob and his coding elves, and the [...]

Location, location, location. And coffee.

  As a break from ranting about copyright and Sprint (though, Sprint fans will want to know, I heard last week that The Carrier of Weeping Doom has grudgingly conceded that they can't really keep five hundred of my bucks and not give me anything in return, and so the case is now closed) I [...]

Stop, thief: yes, you – ebookr.com

It strikes me that I haven't crapped tediously on about copyright theft for a while, which must be a disappointment to all of you. Luckily a trigger has dropped into my lap in the shape of a friend letting me know that yet another site had all my books up on it. The site was [...]

Caution: Contains Nitpicking

I knew my last post would be deeply unpopular in some quarters (though, to be fair, it also had strident support, and not just from people in creative professions). I got a lot of irate tweets, and lost followers. I'll live. The piece's potential unpopularity was kind of why I posted it, rather than getting [...]

Soft SOPA

I'm wearily aware that the following is going to mark me down as wrong-headedly fascist and/or a pinko liberal intellectual, and dangerously uncool either way, but… I'd be interested to know what proportion of the people most stridently against SOPA – by which I mean individuals, not organizations — earn their living (and support their [...]

Amazon – Don’t Be A Dickhead, eh?

Just to be clear before I start — I’m not against Amazon. I’ve spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars with the company. I own a Kindle Fire (and had the previous iteration before that), am a Prime member, and merrily download book after book onto the device. I’ve tracked down reasonably-priced copies of out of [...]

Amazon – Don't Be A Dickhead, eh?

Just to be clear before I start — I'm not against Amazon. I've spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars with the company. I own a Kindle Fire (and had the previous iteration before that), and I merrily download book after book onto it. I bought a camera off the site recently. I've tracked down reasonably-priced [...]

SPRINT – WE’RE INEXPLICABLE™

Bit of a low-key update today, Sprintfans — as the company has merely perplexed me in the last couple of days, rather than driven me to homicidal fury. Yesterday afternoon a robot called. My phone rang, and when I picked it up an automated lady imperiously informed me that Sprint was going to reimburse me [...]

SPRINT – WE'RE INEXPLICABLE™

Bit of a low-key update today, Sprintfans — as the company has merely perplexed me in the last couple of days, rather than driven me to homicidal fury. Yesterday afternoon a robot called. My phone rang, and when I picked it up an automated lady imperiously informed me that Sprint was going to reimburse me [...]

SPRINT – WE HURT KITTENS FOR FUN™

Yes, settle down out there — your wish has been granted. It's time for the next tedious and stomach-churning update from one man's attempts not to be stolen from by a cell phone carrier. I've switched to whining about it in this blog because the Tumblr is supposed to be for nice happy things, and [...]