Oh, okay, you've convinced me. Let's do the latter.
Writing and books
Author Event Tips: THE READING (of dooooom!) - Jennifer Laughran
Tips on how to handle your author reading without coming off as a complete fool.
JK Rowling: 'The worst that can happen is that everyone says, That's shockingly bad'
A few weeks old, this one, but still a really interesting interview with JK Rowling about writing, her life, and her new book.
BristolCon
The one day science fiction and fantasy convention is on Saturday week (October 20th). Steph and I will both be there.
The (literary) heroes who saved me - Booktrust blog
Stephanie Burgis writes a powerful and personal guest blog entry on how heroes in books helped her through a very difficult period in her life.
A few weeks old, this one, but still a really interesting interview with JK Rowling about writing, her life, and her new book.
BristolCon
The one day science fiction and fantasy convention is on Saturday week (October 20th). Steph and I will both be there.
The (literary) heroes who saved me - Booktrust blog
Stephanie Burgis writes a powerful and personal guest blog entry on how heroes in books helped her through a very difficult period in her life.
Tools
If you ever upload images to your website or blog, it's a good idea to crop them to size first. You can do this on your computer, using something like a photoshop or whatever photo utility you use, but cropp.me makes it way easier to do it in the browser, while you're doing your blog post. It's free.
Need to sell books, ebooks, or pretty much anything else through your website but don't want to go to the effort and expense of setting up your own shop? Gumroad will allow you do to this. They charge a small commission, and handle the payments, gathering of delivery address, and hosting of ebooks. I've bought through them, and it worked well.
Only need to sell ebooks and don't want to pay any commission? Payhip lets you upload and sell ebooks and they don't take a penny of your money. You still have to pay whatever charges PayPal makes when they transfer your money, but that's all. They seem to intend to make money by offering premium, charged services, but the ebook side (they say) will always be free. This is a new service. I've not used it, so I can't vouch for it.
Science
The Drugs Don't Work: a modern medical scandal - Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre explains how pharmaceutical companies distort medical trials and hide results they don't like. It's pretty scandalous, and worrying if you rely on medication.
If you're in the UK, you'll be able to send letters to space. Actually, no you won't. But these space-themed stamps are gorgeous and very cool.
Web and Design
So true! If you want any design work done (book/web/whatever) this let's you know your options. (Humor!)
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