categories and tags…

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

The sidebar on this site is the nerve centre of the whole operation and to make room for the ‘twitter feed’ I removed the old categories. So as not to lose their functionality, I have sneaked new versions of the old categories into the top of the tag cloud preceded by a #…

Though these mostly speak for themselves it can’t do any harm to describe them explicitly:

#events – events I have attended, am attending, or will attend
#interviews – interviews I have given that I think may be of interest
#look – things I have come across on the internet that I wish to draw attention to
#me – posts pertaining to my life
#news – anything of note to do with my books etc
#progress – progress reports on my various projects
#reviewing – my own (rare) reviews of other people’s work
#reviews – reviews of my books that I wish to share
#site – anything pertaining to the structure and function of this site

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tweet tweet…

Friday, May 6th, 2011

a not dead parrot sketch...

Social media have provided me with the opportunity of a closer relationship with my readers, and also a way of publishing material that is unlikely to find its way into a book and that I hope might be of some interest. In this spirit (and as a rather feeble attempt to do as my agent and publishers urge me: to ‘promote myself’) I have been putting up these blog posts – that flutter from one topic to another as the feeling takes me. However, there are always snippets too small and too fleeting to commit to merit blogging and it has occurred to me that Twitter might be the perfect place to let those loose. So, I am going to give it a try.

I have had this site modified to show my latest tweets at the top of the sidebar. Additionally, you will see 3 new buttons under the banner on the right that provide, respectively: a link to my facebook account, allow you to follow me on twitter and give you access to the RSS feed for my blog…

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my mailing list…

Monday, May 17th, 2010

For a while now I have been aware that, though more people keep registering with my mailing list, the overall number of people it claims to have on it doesn’t seem to be growing. I am concerned that there are people out there who have been dropped of it for some reason. So, if you’ve not received a mail shot from me over the past few weeks, please re-register here

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stone dance summaries/ dança de pedra sumários…

Thursday, May 13th, 2010
through the wrong end of the telescope...

through the wrong end of the telescope...

(+versão portuguesa)

I do appreciate that, with the long time there has been between the publication of the first two parts of the Stone Dance and the final part, that some people who read the first two books when they came out might look upon them with a bit of dismay – not sure they want to read them again before diving into The Third God. For those people, I have provided summaries of the first two books here… both quick summaries and more detailed ones… (Please don’t forget to set the access level to ‘pomegranate’)

Eu sei que, porque hove bastante tempo entre a publicação dos primeiros dois livros da Dança de Pedra e o final, que deve haver alguns leitores que talvez preferiam não ter que relê-los antes de mergulhar no Terceiro Deus. Por esses, eu forneço aqui sumários dos primeiros dois livros. À versões pequenas e grandes – infelizmente, só em inglês… (por favor não esqueça de ajustar o nível de acesso para ‘romã’),

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Editorial Presença site…

Monday, May 10th, 2010
Editorial Presença mini-site...

Editorial Presença mini-site...

Muito amavelmente meus editores, Editorial Presença, fizeram para mim e os livros da Dança de Pedra um mini-site aqui

My Portuguese publishers have, very kindly, made a mini-site for me in Portuguese here

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