Sensibility – Clearly I Do Not Have It
For the last week I have been trudging through Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility with all the willingness of someone who has no willingness. I was finding it incredibly dull and was under the...
View ArticleThe Stork Hath Landed
My family has welcomed a little guy into the world (hereon known as The Little Guy), and as you can imagine I haven’t been on the internet much. My sister was brilliant, I was sat outside the ward,...
View ArticleShort And Sweet (Maybe Too Sweet)
On what was an alright beginning of the weekend, Charlie consumed many many sweets, popcorn, and chocolate. And that was long before the film started. On what is a dull ending of the weekend she is...
View ArticleHiking Up The Hill To Wuthering Heights
This is a quick post to say that I will be reading and discussing Wuthering Heights along with Iris from Iris On Books in the next few days. Not knowing what to read next between Charlotte Brontë’s...
View ArticleStressful Times
Call for stressful measures. I’m still about but I haven’t had time to read much in the last few weeks, nor time to write a decent non-book post. The Worm Hole’s birthday is in early April, however,...
View ArticleGetting Around The Demise Of Google Reader
If you need help saving your list of RSS feeds from Google Reader to your harddrive, you’ll find instructions at the bottom of this post. Last Friday saw the announcement that Google Reader is to be...
View ArticleUnveiling My Plan B
Today I’m interrupting my usual schedule to let you know what my Plan B (or rather ‘project’) is, after these last six months. I spoke of it in January, mentioned it yesterday, but today’s the launch...
View ArticleChristmas 2013
The Worm Hole will be on a break for Christmas and other madness, one part of which I will likely be chronicling soon. I plan to return on Monday 30th December to post my December reading round-up...
View Article3 Things You Should Include In Blog Posts (And The Coding To Do It)
As someone with a web design background, I often notice the nitty gritty of blog posts, especially since blogging platforms have expanded the possibility of fully-fledged websites to a whole new lot...
View ArticleWhat Our Small Presses Have In Store For Us
Like many book bloggers, I have a lot of love for independent publishers. The books they tend to publish tend to stay with you and they are inspiring for the work they do compared to the big...
View ArticleLook Out For Spam Email Subscribers; Check You’re Getting Your Emails
The first section of this post is specifically for bloggers, the second section for everyone. Look Out For Fake Subscribers I suppose it was bound to happen at some point, but it’s worked for so long...
View ArticleI’m Offering Free Manuscript Edits
This offer has now ended as both spots have been taken. Thank you all for your help in spreading the word, the posts received a rather good number of visitors. I rarely talk about my editing services...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
It’s that time of year again when I say goodbye for the holidays. I’ll be finishing up my latest rounds of editing this weekend and taking time away from blogging and editing over Christmas. I have to...
View ArticleYesterday’s Reburial
or I once dreamed of this, your future breath in prayer for me, lost long, forever found; or sensed you from the backstage of my death, as kings glimpse shadows on a battleground. — from Carol Ann...
View ArticleRobert Merle’s The Brethren: Giveaway
If, like me, your local shop appears to have bypassed the release date of 22nd June you may have already seen this book. Cited as a modern-day Dumas, French author Merle’s saga – acclaimed in its...
View ArticlePushkin Press And The Next Six Months
I like Pushkin Press a lot. They’re the people who published the awesome and bizarre story of writers bouncing around a grocery store due to the extremely compelling power of literature. They’re the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2015
The Worm Hole will be on a break for Christmas and New Year. I’ll be posting my December reading round up and all the What’s In A Name category posts on the 1st January, and will be back fully on the...
View ArticleBack On Monday
Ahh, bots. They steal your bandwidth and cause no end of problems. Things should be back to normal on Monday and I will be posting my January round-up then. Have a good weekend. This blog post belongs...
View ArticleA Leading African Publisher Is Coming To The UK
I feel I should note here that this isn’t a sponsored post. A couple of weeks ago I received a request to review books for a publisher I hadn’t heard of before. (This sentence has confirmed for me...
View ArticleRare Sunday Post: The Young Writer Of The Year 2016 Shortlist
I’ve been looking forward to today because it’s hard to not talk about what you’re reading, especially when you’re enjoying it. These four books together are a lot shorter in length than last year’s...
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