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Melodica Dissidence

I find it interesting how we use our Twitter bios to communicate our identities to one another. We need labels in order to understand who we are, and the 160-character limit means we tend to cram these labels in, dropping ‘and’ from our lists to leave more space or, if you’re an internet marketer and [ READ MORE ]

What WBN Stands For

It stands for World Book Night– new champion among publishing events. It stands for about a million free books, and for Jamie Byng’s lovechild. … It also stands for a major ideological problem for me. … The basic premise of the night is that individuals register on the World Book Night website to be ‘givers’. On March 5th, 20,000 [ READ MORE ]

Join the Academy

I had another meeting with the Format crew last night and got all excited about programming the Academy. I’m still looking for panelists and performers to get involved, so here’s the submission form, and there is a little more information at this Facebook event. (I know I wrote about pulling away from Facebook, but I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Crowd-sourced Programming

… In the DIY spirit of Format and the one-day literary festival I’m programming for them, I’m posting prospective blurb titles for the events I’m thinking of running on the day, and I want you to write the blurb you think I should run with it. Hopefully some panel ideas will come out of it, and [ READ MORE ]

The Academy

When I came back to Adelaide from Melbourne thinking I could take some time off and bury my head in some books at work, I didn’t expect that a bunch of Adelaide crew would have set up a goddamn arts festival and plonked their headquarters down in a little side street off Hindley, that mungtarded [ READ MORE ]

Figuring Things Out: Getting help from those who already know

I emailed a couple of Melbourne agencies this week, chasing work experience. I got two hits back, one from Curtis Brown telling me they don’t take work-experience kids. I’ve canvassed this way before, when I was getting into production in Adelaide, and the pattern was much the same. I expected one response to be straight and [ READ MORE ]

Ad Hoc Service Development, With Song

I met this guy called Warri who wants to start up an arts and culture magazine. So I said, ‘Hey, I know a thing or two about magazines, let’s hang out and geek out on production talk.’ We’re yet to meet up, but we will. Recently Andre, who I posted about a while back, emailed me [ READ MORE ]

Ploughing Author Intentions

I have a question to ask that seems simple, but which grows increasingly complex when you think about it. How do you consider author intention when reviewing a novel? I’ve come up ambivalent about a book I’m reviewing. When this happens I like to make note of the positives and negatives and try to round up [ READ MORE ]

How To Sell Books And Influence People

I’m really glad to be working on a book that’s not government funded. A stack of money has been poured into this and we need to earn the money back to pay off the debt. This just came to mind when I was talking to a guy who put out a bunch of comics with a [ READ MORE ]

Riffing Off a Meeting at the Breakdown Press Bunker

I got inspired about my career after meeting Tom and Lou from Breakdown Press about me possibly managing the sales and distribution of their forthcoming title, How to Make Trouble and Influence People[ READ MORE ]

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