“Hey, You a dreamer?” “Yeah.” “Haven’t seen too many of you around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming’s dead; no one does it anymore. It’s not dead, it’s just that it’s been forgotten. Removed from our language. Nobody teaches it, so nobody knows it exists. Dreamers are banished to obscurity. [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Kindle Chaos
Posted in writing, tagged content farming, ebook, kindle publishing, kindle spam, online plagiarism, piracy, plagiarism on February 13, 2012 | 6 Comments »
The murky underbelly of on-line publishing? They say where there’s muck there’s brass, but equally the opposite is true: where there’s the sudden glitter of freshly minted brass, the muck’s never going to be far behind in chasing it. It seems reports of the financial successes of certain authors using the Amazon Kindle marketplace as [...]
Michael Graeme plagiarised? Fame at last!
Posted in Feedbooks, journal, writing, tagged amazon, ebooks, kindle edition, kindle editions, langholm avenue, michael graeme, online plagiarism, plagiarism, push hands on February 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Well, never has my flabber been more ghasted. My thanks to Lori and to Emma for writing to me and pointing out that my “free” novels are apparently for sale on Amazon.com as e-books for the Kindle. I had been thinking about making some of my books into Kindle editions, but discounted the idea as [...]
Trying to be truthful? Be my Valentine.
Posted in journal, philosophical, spiritual, tagged carol anne duffy, Eros, knickers, love, poems, poetry, red knickers, valentine's on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Valentine’s: a bottle of pink plonk and a pair of cheap red knickers? I was out shopping with my family today – our usual Saturday thing. I drove into town, stood in the usual shops, then drove home. Empty handed. The world of material goods just doesn’t do it for me any more. What I’m [...]
