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A brief anecdote (and more) from Neal Stephenson

It’s over a decade old (2004) but a Slashdot post by acclaimed sci-fi author Neal Stephenson (left) is worth repeating:[…]

A few weeks ago I mentioned Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition, (sorry, entries are now closed), that[…]

The Pomodoro Technique is a method of time-management many writers find useful. It was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the[…]

There’s still time (just) to enter Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 Words competition. Entries close on at 23.59 on[…]

If you’re looking for bad book covers, there’s plenty of sites specialising in just that — try or Lousy Book[…]

Last year, New Zealanders purchased 5.3 million printed books — not bad for a country of just 4.6 million people,[…]

Another delightful cartoon from Grant Snider:

The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]

When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]