Martyn's blog

Every good story has a villain, the fouler and blacker the better, for a dramatic narrative, and the easier it is to identify the black hat...

Old maps fascinate me, the elaborately decorated charts and drawings from the sixteenth and seventeenth century when the world, to European...

"He wishes for the cloths of heaven" by W.B. Yeats describes how the plaintiff desiring to gift the glories and splendour of the s...

Amazon's much discussed letter to authors yesterday morning has received much comment for and against and probably been dissected mor...

A post at the Smashwords blog unfolds the details of Sony's announcement to close the Sony Reader store in the US and Canada. Purchasers...

Click the link, type in the URL, the simple way to find anything on the Internet, but what about doing it in a slightly more traditional way...

Spot of early morning reading, checking the emails and this blog and the Smashwords blog trumpeted the news, Apple iBookstore in the UK and...

Recent posts from the Office of Letters and Light - the people behind Nanowrimo -  Self-Publishing vs Publishing: How To Choose Your Path b...

Putting a novel out has its moments of sublime delight and mild frustration, working out how to get the word out, wandering through the laby...