In 1980 or 1981, Bjelke-Petersen went to University of Queensland guarded by Qld Special Branch. Joh’s visit was controversial as the questions from the news media suggest.… Go to Article
Category: books
Book Launch: Michael, we really have to talk …
We wish to thank the West End Library and staff for their assistance and support in launching the book. The book is now available in Brisbane City Council Libraries.… Go to Article
A Natural Wonder in Peril
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
by Iain McCalman
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp.,… Go to Article
Celebrate the launch of Vision 111
Bent Banana Books is offering the third installment of Jane Sharp’s Vision III psychic mysteries free for five days. Flight of the Reluctant Psychic is free from the Kindle store from December 10 to December 15.
… Go to Article 10000 ways to make up stuff
Simeon Stylites sat on a pole for more than 30 years.
Everybody said he was a saint, but he shrugged.
“After 10, 000 hours, you get very good at it,” he said.
… Go to Article How you write a book review
WHAT the world needs now are reviews, book reviews; they’re the only things (apart from fresh water, social justice and quite a bit of other stuff) that there’s just too little of: reviews, book reviews.
… Go to Article And the Archangel Michael Ascended to Hachette Heaven
THE trouble with conventional wisdom is by the time it becomes widespread it is passé.
Take the old saw that a mainstream publisher will never pick up a self-published author.
… Go to Article My book is 5 cents but I’m worried I have priced it too high
All you voracious readers out there, will you pay a fair price for a book? All you professional writers out there, will you accept a fair return on your labour, say $50, 000 and upwards a year?
… Go to Article Dead books thrive
Rigid Male Ship Publishing
MUCH wailing at the wall and gnashing at the teeth follow from the recent ill fortunes of the publishing industry.
… Go to Article Trolling for good grammar part 1
A leisurely stroll with trolls
Trolling for blue fish, a1866 lithograph by Currier and Ives
THE heritage media in Australia is hunting for trolls after a celebrity was hospitalised with a breakdown following Twitter exchanges.
… Go to Article Them ol’ Publisher blues
I came across another mainstream publisher at a conference the other day – very depressing. I don’t mind so much they are in denial that ebooks will send them spiralling into obsolescence just like epublishing sent the big record companies down the drain.… Go to Article