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TFP - The Epilogue

Very perceptive “lessons learned” piece by Danuta Kean following the collapse of The Friday Project. While I don’t like to say “I told you so”, (OK, I do…) it was crashingly obvious, as blogged in these pages for many months, that their business model simply was not viable. Some of the comments following [...]

Spread The Word About Podwatch

Podwatch has gone straight into my “must listen” category of podcasts. Full disclosure – Podwatch was kind enough to give LITOPIA AFTER DARK a near-perfect 9.5 marks out of 10 in their recent review – so I suppose I’m not totally disinterested! However, since first learning about this review site/podcast (our podcast officer, [...]

Litopia After Dark - Caffeine Nights

This Friday’s LITOPIA AFTER DARK is going to be another good one – we have another special guest booked in the form of Darren E. Laws, who’s done what many authors have fantasized about, and set up his own publishing company, Caffeine Nights Publishing. “Caffeine Nights Publishing wants to be at the forefront of [...]

Anon Strikes Again!

And out of the blue, they came… to Tottenham Court Rd, London, this afternoon, and probably most other places worldwide where the Xenu-philes are located. Impressive demo.

Modern Publishing Paradox

Thinking about a book proposal I’m helping to final-polish…
Publishers increasingly want authors with built in platforms, but authors with built-in platforms need publishers less and less…

Cultured Meat

Here’s are interesting idea that I’ve been predicting for decades.  I don’t think cultured meat is for me - I’ve done pretty well all my life without it - but it could well be a saner and kinder use of our food resources.  Be interesting to see if the epidemiology shows any health advantages over [...]

Litopia After Dark - Backstage

As an experiment, we’ve started to stream the LITOPIA AFTER DARK pre-show planning sessions live on UStream every Friday. The first one was streamed by mistake, then we realized we’d got people watching… so we’re going to continue. You can access it on our UStream page here, from (approximately) the following times:

12:30pm London
7:30am New [...]

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