Archive for April, 2007
Penelope Farmer, a novelist of some repute, found there was still a demand for her work - via her blog.
The book I’d been writing, like its predecessor, was turned down - that this happens frequently these days to writers of my generation was no comfort at all. I felt too discouraged to start another. But [...]
Maxine Clarke’s review of Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, this years winner of the Costa First Novel Prize, is on the Euro-Crime site.
(The phrase), “the sickness of long thinking”, is the key to this wonderful book. The story turns into a book of journeys by most of the characters, and by these journeys we [...]
I received the following (edited) email from myLot.com on the 18th April:
We are excited to inform you that myLot.com is now syndicating John Bakers Blog on our website!
Our editors have handpicked your blog based on the interests of our members. myLot is already syndicating your blog, http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/, on myLot.com. If you would like to continue syndicating your blog on myLot you have nothing further to do. If you would like for us to stop syndicating your blog, kindly respond to this email and let us know.
I replied immediately and asked them to remove my content from their site. They did not reply and continued to use my content. I emailed them again the next day, and again the day after that.
myLot have still not acknowledged my emails and they continue to upload the contents of my blog on a daily basis.
My first thought was that myLot were using a morally dubious inertia selling technique, something I had to opt-out of to stop them using my work. But since they don’t respond to my emails and continue to use my work in spite of knowing that I don’t wish them to, then they are quite simply, thieves.
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I have spoken before about the drawbacks of long and detailed descriptions. But here I would like to concentrate on how character development is created most satisfactorily, not in description, but in action.
In defining someone by their possessions, you do not do yourself a favour by writing, “She owned a Saab convertible,” nor by showing [...]
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