Blog Posts

  • How Writers Write: Stephen Palmer

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • How Writers Write: Jaine Fenn

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • Six Little Masterpieces of Economy

    Armistead Maupin has been described as the master of coincidence.  He’s also a master of economy.  Look how captures the essence of his characters in…

  • How Writers Write: Ruth EJ Booth

    How Writers Write is monthly series of guest posts where established writers invite you into their workspaces, reveal their work habits and share their experience.…

  • Six Useful Websites for Writers

    1) Etomyonline – Etymological Dictionary See the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. Keep your language of…

  • Install Mediatomb on Ubuntu 15.04

    Now that Ubuntu 15.04 has moved to systemd, Mediatomb no longer runs from the dash. If you want to run it on a per user…

  • Ubuntu 15.04 + Chillblast Fusion Quasar

    I’ve installed Ubuntu 15.04 on my new PC with little difficulty. The machine came with 64bit Windows 8.1 pre-installed, I partitioned the SSD and HDD…

  • The Only Good Thing about Vinyl was the Covers

    I must have bought about 200 vinyl records before I bought a CD player. You can see some of them above, there’s a prize for…

  • Codes that Changed the World: Fortran

    Before Fortran there was no poetry in programming The BBC are doing a a very interesting radio series on programming languages called Codes that Changed…

  • Story Behind the Book Volume 4

    Story Behind the Book Volume 4

    Volume 4 of the “Story Behind the Book” series of charity anthologies, edited by Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner is out now.  It features a…

  • How to be a Great Writer

    I was having a conversation about Detective Fiction with a friend of mine recently. He brought up the fact, apparently well known in detective fiction…

  • How to be a Great Writer

    I was having a conversation about Detective Fiction with a friend of mine recently. He brought up the fact, apparently well known in detective fiction…