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Iain Banks ‘Groundbreaking’ Podcast Novel Shot Down By Longtime Pod-book Listeners!

by podblack on August 1, 2009

The bemused comments have been flying thick and faster than a broadband download after Hatchette Digital on The Bookseller put their foot in it with some very weird claims: In an exclusive trade first Little, Brown Book Group will be publishing the abridged audio edition of Iain Banks’ new novel Transition as a free serialised [...]

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Little Kitten – From The Typewriter To The Bookstore…

by podblack on January 22, 2009

Hat-tip to Neil Gaiman.

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I Shagged A Vampire – That’s Why I’m A Best-Seller

by podblack on November 11, 2008

1) You are: a) A klutzy-dipsy high-school student who seems to be destined for a life in cardigans and Ivy League postgrad-degree pursuit (possibly to escape the fact that your mother seems to have more of a teenage lifestyle than you); b) A klutzy-dipsy coffee-house baker who seems destined for a life in cardigans and [...]

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Review Of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host

by podblack on May 3, 2008

Before I start – get into Fine Lines book reviews at Jezebel.com. Great little trips down memory lane, with young adult books from the times you saved up to pay for the latest Judy Blume with small bills! ‘From the Mixed-Up Files…’ – it’s damned cool to check it out now – yes, running away [...]

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Romance By Numbers

by podblack on April 14, 2008

The NY Times has turned me poetic… an article about a man who publishes ‘niche-texts’, with the help of computers, Phillip M Parker: …Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history [...]

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Ben Preaching the Blind – “Blind Faith”

by podblack on November 18, 2007

The cover is a little odd. Looks like a crashed bicycle wheel on its side. Is it the London Eye, turned Orwellian spy? In some ways, that’s rather apt. “‘…Trafford wanted privacy, or even just a bit of peace. Every day he wanted to shout, ‘Here’s an idea: why don’t we all just shut up [...]

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