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An interview with Mandy Hager

November 13, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

There’s an interesting interview with multi-award-winning local author (and current New Zealand Society of Authors’ president) Mandy Hager over on[…]

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The world’s richest short story prize: a warning

November 12, 2019 Geoff For Writers

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away,” is a phrase that may well apply to what’s claimed[…]

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Quote: Saul Bellow

November 11, 2019 Geoff Quotes

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is regarded as[…]

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The world’s richest short story prize

November 3, 2019 Geoff For Writers

The ticking clock on The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award shows that entries close in a little over five[…]

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Cover creation gone weird

November 3, 2019 Geoff Fun

This seems appropriate after yesterday’s Isaac Asimov quote since Asimov cut his teeth writing for pulp magazines with covers like[…]

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Quote: Isaac Asimov

November 3, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Quotes

“From my close observation of writers … they fall into two groups: those who bleed copiously and visibly at any[…]

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Why do people buy books?

October 10, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Publishing

Back in 2010, a survey of book buying behaviour in the US returned the following figures: Author reputation 52% Personal[…]

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Browsing with a Badger

October 7, 2019 Geoff For Writers

Just like fingerprints at a crime scene, your browser leaves its fingerprints on every website you visit …

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The Dark Side of Facebook

September 30, 2019 Geoff Privacy, Tech Matters

“The biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind.” In a hugely popular post titled The Ultimate Retaliation: Pranking my[…]

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The 8 longest words in English

September 29, 2019 Geoff For Writers, Fun, Language

The longest word in the English language is a whisker under 190,000 letters long and would take over an hour[…]

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Payback Private Viewing
Private Lives Dead Men's Shoes
Telling Stories How to Write a Book
Lair of the Sentinels Too Many Zeros
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