Sorry for the mess

Hello again. So. I’ve started up a book club in London, meeting twice a month to discuss, well, books. Specifically, one book per meet. We only read books by independent publishers, because we’re elitist like that. Or, y’know, some vague high-minded bullshit about wanting to support small publishers in their darkest hour of need, blahblahblah. [...]

I went to a Digital Skills evening, organized by the SYP, last night. There were three speakers, Nicholas Blake (Editorial Manager, Picador and Digital), Ros Kindersley (Managing Director, JFL Search & Selection) and Chris Meade (Director, if:book/Future of the Book, London).
While the other two people certainly had interesting things to say, Chris Meade’s talk really [...]

I’ve been trying to read a lot more recently, and I’ve managed to plough through quite a few books in the last couple of weeks. I’ve listed them below, with some comments on how I found them, and some quotes I dog-eared.
DISCLAIMER: I work at an indie publisher. Two of the below books are books [...]

Reading my Livejournal, as all good geeks do on a daily basis, I came across a post by one of my friends on the subject of charity. Basically he wanted to know to what extent we (assuming here that ‘we’ are reasonably prosperous westerners) are morally obliged to give time or money to charity, why, [...]

Feminism got me thinking.
I started out feeling frustrated about not being taken seriously. My male friends were usually more interested in how revealing my clothes were than in anything I had to say, and female friends were often wary of competition. My small triumphs were jealously picked apart or dismissed as insignificant. I noticed that [...]