Like so many others books have helped me through bad times. I hope that in turn, my books will provide an escape/touch point of sanity for other people. Sometimes it helps to remember this.

Have you voted yet? Hurry up. Name your favourites. And if you do have some spare cash floating around (I know, ha ha) you might want to help out Preditors and Editors with their legal expenses. It’s a costly business, telling the truth.

Imagine driving on flowers. According to an article by the Economist, this may be the way of the future. Dandelions are being modified to produce rubber in commercial quantities. Apparently it will come from their roots, ideally when they’ve been developed to the size of carrots. Just think, my car tyres will come from the…

The lovely thing about posting poetry on this blog is it doesn’t have to be perfect. Submitting a poem elsewhere means paying attention to words, rhythm, sustained image, etc. But here I can concentrate on personal feeling–does the poem capture my intent in writing it? If I’m satisfied with its word play, emotion, use of…

The Book Depository is running a competition (mentioned in their newsletter) for readers to review what they consider the best book of 2009. Hmm. When I stop to think about it, most of the books I read this year weren’t 2009 copyright. Even if I bought them new, they were often a couple of years…