Short Story Sales
The week before last I made my first short story sales. Although both sales were at ‘pro rates’, they were short shorts, and so aren’t going to allow me to jet off into the sunset just yet. The first,...
View Article#Twitterjoketrial – That Joke Isn’t Funny Any More
This article was first published on the Spectator Arts Blog on the 22nd November, 2010. I am a crazed demon. That’s right, you heard: a crazed demon. A journalist on a national newspaper says so. And...
View ArticleTwit-toon #1
You know, I don't mean to be a dick or anything, but this used to be a lot more magical An occasional series of cartoons inspired by things, and posted on Twitter.
View ArticleMy Exclusive Interview With Johann Hari
Image via Wikipedia Everything you are about to read is true. And when I say ‘true’ I mean ‘intellectually true’ rather than the ordinary, mundane, factual sort of ‘true’. Until this morning I had not...
View ArticleOn Custard Piety
Image via Wikipedia (With apologies to Michael Legge, from whom I have stolen – sort of – the title of this post) Let’s get one thing straight from the off. You can’t be attacked with a custard pie....
View Article10 Reasons You Should Come To Topical Cream (May 2012)
Hello, on Tuesday it’s Topical cream time again. This month we’ve got Pippa Evans, Ruth Bratt, Holly Burn, Stephanie Jory, Ben Champion, Joe Wells, Kate Smurthwaite and MORE all jumping around and...
View ArticleThat Joke Isn’t Funny Any More
English: Tweeting bird, derived from the initial ‘t’ of Twitter Deutsch: Twitschervogel, entwickelt aus dem Anfangs-’t’ von Twitter (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Given the great result in the...
View ArticleToo Soon?
I straightened my Union Jack tie and looked straight down the lens. Was I really going to do this? Today? Well, there was only one way to find out… Did you hear the one about the Woolwich murder?...
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