Mike Robbins's Blog, page 7
August 1, 2015
From blog post to Kindle
Amazon's elegant widget
"Delighted that Amazon has finally devised an efficient widget for sending long blog posts to Kindle. I've just been testing it on my own blog and it works really well, both for Kindle Paperwhite and for the Kindle app on my tablet. I've now put it on all the longer posts, including this piece of nostalgia about Syria. Would be interested if someone could see how well it works on the Kindle app for iPad.
http://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/20...
"Delighted that Amazon has finally devised an efficient widget for sending long blog posts to Kindle. I've just been testing it on my own blog and it works really well, both for Kindle Paperwhite and for the Kindle app on my tablet. I've now put it on all the longer posts, including this piece of nostalgia about Syria. Would be interested if someone could see how well it works on the Kindle app for iPad.
http://mikerobbinsnyc.blogspot.com/20...
June 16, 2015
Chance to win a copy of The Nine Horizons
Another book giveaway, global this time; please do enter for a chance to win between now and June 23. One reviewer wrote of The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places:
"I've never really read a travel memoir quite like this one. Mike Robbins describes the locations of the character's travels in a way that not only paints a vivid picture, but like a beautiful art film he also gives it a lighting and temperature that tone his mood and awe."
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
"I've never really read a travel memoir quite like this one. Mike Robbins describes the locations of the character's travels in a way that not only paints a vivid picture, but like a beautiful art film he also gives it a lighting and temperature that tone his mood and awe."
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
May 21, 2015
Giveaway until end Saturday
I am giving away six copies of The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places - enter for a chance to win; ends Saturday night (May 23).
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/67216be...
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/67216be...
April 3, 2015
Penitence in Quito
It's Easter and I'm reminded of one of the most interesting Good Fridays I have had, in Quito, watching the traditional parade of penitents. It is an extraordinary sight that would be very easy to belittle or misunderstand. This extract from The Nine Horizons is one of two pieces in the book that arose from a long journey to Ecuador, which I still believe to have been one of the most interesting and beautiful countries I have visited.
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March 6, 2015
NetGalley
I've made Three Seasons available for review on NetGalley. It's my first time working with them and I'll be interested to see how much interest there is. I'll approve most genuine requests. The page for the book is here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...
February 20, 2015
Syria, two years on
Remembering Aleppo: I wrote this piece about Aleppo, Syria, exactly two years ago. I later included it in The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places, which was published a year later. But it was originally intended as a blog post. I lived for years kin Aleppo and wanted to tell people that it was not an anonymous flashpoint on the evening news, but one of the most ancient and extraordinary places on earth. I'm glad I didn't know that, two years on, things in Aleppo (and Syria in general) would be even worse.
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February 15, 2015
The Casual Vacancy
The TV adaptation of The Casual Vacancy slams onto British TV screens at 9.15 tonight, Sunday Feb 15. For what it''s worth, this was my take on it. No plot spoilers, I promise.
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December 20, 2014
Reviewers? ...England in the Eighties
I've just published again. Last one for 2014, promise. The new book is called Three Seasons: Three Stories of England in the Eighties. I'm looking for reviewers, and can supply MOBI, EPUB or PDF formats (and a limited number of paperbacks). If you do reviews for Goodreads and Amazon, and think you might want to read this one, message me. Blurb and cover below.
Three Seasons is a book of three novellas, unconnected with each other, but all set in the south of England in the 1980s.
In Spring, a middle-aged Hull trawler skipper, his great days gone, has one last throw of the dice a South Coast port.
In Summer, an ambitious young man makes his way in the booming Thames Valley property market, unconcerned with the damage he does to others.
In Autumn, the Master of an Oxford college welcomes his two sons home, but they awake difficult memories from half a century before.
Three Seasons is about the Thatcher era in Britain, but it is not about politics. These three stories are portraits of a country and its people on the verge of change.
Three Seasons is a book of three novellas, unconnected with each other, but all set in the south of England in the 1980s.
In Spring, a middle-aged Hull trawler skipper, his great days gone, has one last throw of the dice a South Coast port.
In Summer, an ambitious young man makes his way in the booming Thames Valley property market, unconcerned with the damage he does to others.
In Autumn, the Master of an Oxford college welcomes his two sons home, but they awake difficult memories from half a century before.
Three Seasons is about the Thatcher era in Britain, but it is not about politics. These three stories are portraits of a country and its people on the verge of change.
