John Baker’s Blog

Novelists do not write into a void. They require an answering response, an audience of readers outside their family circle, and they also need the approval that professional publication brings. Next week, next year; surely she would hear soon. This hope must have remained with her, but the impulse to produce more novels withered.
It might [...]

1. Why do you blog?
To write down my ideas about the idea-based subjects in life that interest me - books, reading, writing, publishing, science and the web, in particular the social science & technology aspects of the web. Since starting blogging, I have connected with a small group of people who have overlapping interests, so [...]

1.Why do you blog?
I maintain a weblog in order to:
. . . sustain & develop further a unique form of communication that enables me to write in reflective solitude in the traditional way, but also enables me to locate & interact with a critical readership almost immediately.
. . . be able to read across a [...]