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Legal Deposit In Canadian Law

On 15 May I published a post entitled, “Legal Deposit, What Is It And Are You Covered, (http://newauthoronline.com/2015/05/15/legal-deposit-what-is-it-and-are-you-covered/). In that post I explained that all books published in the UK must be submitted for archiving to the British Library.

I have been contacted by a Canadian blogger, Lorraine, who has provided a link to a helpful post on her blog regarding the position in Canada, (http://lorrainereguly.com/legal-deposit/). Thank you Lorraine f...

Where Have All Of The Merry-Go-Rounds Gone?

Originally posted on Behind the White Coat:

It was the first one I have seen in over a decade. The merry-go-round was not in the best shape but my kids loved playing. I had to pry their fingers off of the struts to get them back home.

I had forgotten how much fun I had on those things as a kid. Now, they just stir up my vertigo.

Mommy is going to sit this one out.

Such is life….

You spin around full circle until it is time to get off. Things you enjoy, that you take for granted? They dissap...

Saturday Morning

Saturday morning.

The sun is hot.

Children kick a ball on the school playing fields, their animated voices filling the mid morning air.

A dog barks.

I enter the graveyard, it’s stones marking my way home.

Humans Have Shorter Attention Span Than Goldfish Thanks To Smartphones

Thanks to my friend, Brian for drawing the below article to my attention. According to a study by Microsoft, the attention span of the average human has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2015. According to scientists a goldfish can hold a thought in it’s brain for 9 seconds. The decline is, if one is to believe the research, due to the growth in the use of smartphones, which began in 2000.

Now what am I doing? What is the point of this post? Oh look a fly is buzzing around the r...

Butterflies

Beautiful butterflies flitting in and out of my life,

Here,for a moment, then gone in a trice.

An interlude of pleasure, thence you hurry away,

Lovely creature will you not stay?

Legal Deposit – What Is It And Are You Covered?

A copy of every book published in the United Kingdom must be deposited with the British Library. This includes everything from the latest blockbuster through to the self-published history of the Jo Bloggs family. The British Library’s website provides the following succinct explanation of Legal Deposit:
“Legal deposit has existed in English law since 1662. It helps to ensure that the nation’s published output (and thereby its intellectual record and future
published heritage) is collected sys...

So Just What Does Make A Good Book Good? by @RobertHughes05

Originally posted on :

I’m guessing everyone will have an answer to this question, but what do you think makes a good book good? After all, we have all started reading a book which we never finish, usually because we don’t particularly like the story, but what is it that makes us read a book right to its end?

As writers and authors we could all put a list together and, I’m pretty sure, we’d all have lists where many of the answers would match up. Without a doubt answers such as the cover, t...

From Idea To Ebook – A Guest Post By Victoria (Tori) Zigler

Thank you to Victoria (Tori) Zigler for the below guest post. You can find Victoria’s blog here, (http://ziglernews.blogspot.co.uk/).

I’m sure you’ve read many posts from a variety of authors about their writing process, and probably their publishing process too. Well, now it’s my turn to tell you mine.

Ideas come to me in a variety of ways, from dreams and daydreams to overheard conversations, and everything in between. When they come to me, I make a note of them in a regularly backed up...

Of Roots And Wreckage – A Guest Post By Author Laura A Lord

Many thanks to Laura A Lord for the below guest post. I have pre-ordered Laura’s latest book, “Of Roots And Wreckage” and look forward to reading it on it’s release in June 2015. For Laura’s website please visit, (http://lauraalord.com/).

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Laura A. Lord is the author of numerous collections of vignettes and poetry and one awesome children’s book about a T-Rex screwing up her entire day. It’s absolutely a true story.

Laura’s work has been featured in The Beacon, The Collegi...

Poet Charles Bukowski’s Last Poetry Reading

Poet Charles Bukowski’s last poetry reading, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB6IyLTvB7M&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs). The event contains much bawdiness interspersed with the odd poem. If you enjoy Bukowski’s work the performance is worth watching, however much of the performance consists of exchanges between Bukowski and the audience, rather than the poet reading his poetry.