As the famous Sri Lankan expression goes, ‘Today is lazy day’. So in keeping with this spirit, I have decided to be completely slothic for today’s blog post and entertain you instead with a list of wonderfully awful translations that I found while surfing the net over my morning coffee. In a Tokyo Hotel: Is…
All politicians lie because they have to. We all know politicians lie, but why do we get sucked into believing them? Because the political narrative (lie) is controlled to such an extraordinary extent by the media, which has become an arm of governments around the world. Thus, repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the…
So, do you own the ebook you just bought? Probably not. What do you really own when it comes to technology? Well, from this story about a Kindle owner having her Kindle wiped clean by Amazon, and her account closed, it would seem the answer is very little. The disturbing part of the story is…
A bad business decision is not always a bad one. I have happily made a very bad business decision. Let me explain. A little over six months ago I made the decision to move all of my ebooks to Amazon KDP Select, which at the time made a lot of sense, as I explained in…
Writing can be frustrating While there is always doubt in a writer’s mind, there comes a day when you just know what you have written is not working or that it is simply rubbish. I have just had this day and have decided to trash a project I have been working on now for a…
Writing comes with rich rewards Although I only published the book six months ago, it is now well over a year and a half since I finished writing the story that was so different from anything I’d ever written before. It was probably the most difficult as well because the setting, characters and feelings were so…
