Opinion

You can’t censor my books! There is always an ‘app for that‘ as we all know, but I think I stumbled on one of the most insidious today. One that censors my books. It is an app that blanks out all words that the app deems as bad words from an ebook, and has an option to replace them…

They love what I hate, and hate what I love. I have written more that a few books, but one annoying result of all this writing is that readers seem to prefer the books of mine, which I don’t particularly like at all. Now, this poses quite a conundrum for me, doesn’t it? Should I write for…

I’ve been wanting to have a post title like this for a very long time, but had in my mind it would have something to do with food. But alas it hasn’t. I was watching French television last night and during a commercial break my ears twitched as an advertisement started playing – ‘Yummy, yummy,…

When I first bought my Kindle, I was in love with it. Not because it was pretty, technologically fancy, and not even because it was cheap. Why I was in love with it was because I could finally read in comfort. My old eyes were starting to struggle with the font size in some books…

While I might write in British English and know a lot about cricket, rugby and what makes for a great pint, it seems that my Australian colonial connection with the Mother Country ends at about where the titles of my books begin. Not to put too finer point on it, maybe I should reward all…

We all know the line, ‘It was twenty years ago today that Sgt Pepper taught the band to play.’ But goodness me, doesn’t time fly. So much so that I just did some mental arithmetic and believe the song should now start with ‘It was sixty-five years ago today…..’ Perhaps I should have noticed this…