Presque vu XXXXII

Guardian Unlimited reports that thirteen people have been arrested in Turkey as part of an investigation into an ultra-nationalist gang reported to be planning the assassination of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk.
The suspects have now been remanded in custody, among them retired military officers and the lawyer Kemal Kerincisz. The latter has been instrumental in the [...]



Character Blogs

A character blog is a blog written in the voice of a fictional narrator, of which there are several examples currently on the internet.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is one, another is the more recent Bono’s Blog (Saving the world one song at a time). Neither of these blogs are written by the person [...]



Creating a Text

The summer is not an easy blogging period for me. I usually find myself physically isolated from modern technology and with little inclination to get closer to it until I return home to my own desk.
Last year I asked several bloggers a series of five questions and published their answers on this blog during the [...]



Bookarazzi

Bookarazzi is a new website and blog devoted to the work and interests of a group of published authors.
Bookarazzi is the public face of BloggersWithBookDeals, a group of published writers / artists who spend half our lives on the internet.
There are almost 50 of us, and our books range from surreal comedy to commercial women’s [...]






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