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January 14, 2013
Oh for crying out loud! Updated January 15, 2013.
STOP PRESS! It took less than 12 hours for Amazon support to get back to me and now VOKHTAH is waiting to hit the Amazon lists! If there are any other aussies having trouble with that particular part of the Account Setup form, the phone number has to be in the following format : xx-xxx-xxxxxx [...]
Glory be… I have a clean .mobi!
Okay, I know you must be getting sick of this, especially as I still haven’t uploaded Vokhtah to Amazon yet but… I finally managed to do the conversion to Kindle format without any errors, or warnings or nasty things that go bump in the night! And it all works, including the cover. This is it [...]
January 13, 2013
The great Kangaroo Ground scare
We have had bushfires burning out of control for what feels like weeks. Not here in Warrandyte where I live, but in other parts of the state, and in other states across Australia, so when last Friday dawned hot and dry, with a northerly wind blowing, we all braced for fire. It was not until [...]
January 9, 2013
“4 Copy Editors Killed In …” the funniest spoof I’ve read in ages!
I found this delicious article over at Colinology and couldn’t resist sharing it with those few people who don’t follow Colin [you really should you know]. As Colin says, this is the kind of article that only us writing nerds would find funny, so the rest of you should go make a cup of coffee [...]
January 8, 2013
Ame no oto – the sound of rain
Apologies to haiku buffs for messing with that famous line, but in south eastern Australia, the sound of rain is always special, and deserves a haiku of its own. Particularly in summer, with bushfires raging in three states. I know this rain won’t last, and I know it probably hasn’t spread past the coastal areas, [...]
January 7, 2013
Chilli chocolate and the cover design for Vokhtah!
Just a quick update to let you know two, totally unrelated things. The first is that I just ate my first ever chilli infused chocolate and it was amazing… in a very good way. I was given a late Christmas present of boutique chocolates and didn’t know what I was eating until I started to [...]
January 4, 2013
Doors of Pine – Reader beware!
As most of you know I’m an avid reader of ebooks thanks to the low cost. I’m still picky though, so this post is not so much a review as a warning – ‘Doors of Pine’, by Mark Williams, is not a novel, it’s just the introduction to something that may, eventually, become a novel. [...]
