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Twitter, prophecy, and the 1998 Nokia Communicator
FOR 24 HOURS ONLY: My brand new online course What the hell is Twitter? is free to the first 20 people who sign up with this link. [Update: free passes have gone] The next 50 people SAVE $65, a 70%...
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Netflix says it’s a great time to be a writer
Scroll to the bottom for an 85% discount on my new online course! Netflix released all 13 episodes of the thriller House of Cards (a remake of the British mini-series of the same name, with Ian...
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Novel ideas for travel and tourism
What novels or books have you read that made you want to go on holiday? I read Brideshead Revisited to whet my appetite before going to the university where much of it is set. (There were fewer teddy...
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How I lost half my readers in 48 hours
I cut my mailing list in half last week, partly by mistake. Here’s how and why. For the last five weeks I’ve been in Thailand, where my father lives, because he had a series of strokes. It’s been a...
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Quick guide to the Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 for self-publishers
Self-publishers should be taking notes at these Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 sessions The Sydney Writers’ Festival 2013 program was launched last night, is now online, and will be in tomorrow’s Sydney...
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What’s it like when Oprah picks your book?
Cheryl Strayed knows what it’s like when Oprah calls, because her mobile phone rang one day and it was Oprah on the line. I asked her what that was like… (If you can’t see the audio player, you’ll find...
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The writers who don’t need books
Stories have been told orally, on cave walls, and in dance or any number of other ways. You’ve never needed a book to tell a story. The world’s fourth largest writers’ festival in Sydney explored...
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“Can self-publishing ever be meaningful?” was the question I was asked to address in a panel session on Commercialisation: the business of authorship. The panel was part of the always interesting...
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