Just in case you have forgotten:
If you are looking for a present for a bookish friend -- or just something to go in the guest room -- you might care to consider the book version of the Grumpy Old Bookman. This features all 130 posts from the first six months or so of the GOB's existence and provides 304 pages of good reading. It is available in paperback format from either Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com -- in either case at a healthy discount.
Also still available, and absolutely FREE, is a 72-page essay entitled On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile. Full details here.
A blog about books and publishing, aimed at both readers and writers. Listed by the Guardian in 2005 as one of the top ten literary blogs.
About Me
- Michael Allen
- ...is an 84-year-old Englishman (as of 2023) who lives in Dorset, England. For more information on my books in digital form, visit my Amazon author page. Use the links in the box immediately below.
Links to other Michael Allen sites
Blog Archive
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2005
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May
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- Pause in posts
- There are no Great Novels
- John Carey on the arts
- Culture shock
- Vote of thanks
- Yet more on Macmillan
- Rants and whines
- Windsor Chorlton: Cold Fusion
- Parody and satire
- Bookworm on the net
- Trends in bestsellers
- More on Mary Archer
- Sculpting a marketing plan
- Ian McDonald: River of Gods
- Davis Sweet: The Baloney Code
- Opportunity knocks
- Running to keep up
- More on Macmillan
- Foer and Strauss
- The good, the bad, and the somewhere-in-between
- The saintliness of Mary Archer
- Theodore Dalrymple
- More OBEs
- Comments on comments
- Not only free but valuable
- Galleycat and the ULA
- Classic English short stories
- More dangerous digits
- The Rule of Four -- again
- POD confusion resolved
- Reminders
- Resilient writers
- Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason: The Rule of Four
- New thinking by bookseller -- world grinds to halt...
- Other people's efforts
- Clive Ponting: 1940 -- myth and reality
- New thinking by publisher -- world grinds to halt
- Truth in numbers
- Long-term career prospects for writers
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May
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Things to remember
'Reedin iz 4 geekz n sad ppl' -- Chantelle fan, May 2006. This blog is respectfully dedicated to geekz n sad ppl everywhere.
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