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  1. @nextread @john_self Or a good entertaining character piece=good. A leaden uninspired teen vampire novel=bad.
  2. @nextread @john_self So a good entertaining teen vampire novel=good. A leaden uninspired character piece=bad.
  3. @nextread @john_self Well written, regardless of genre or style. A good example of what it is.
  4. @pausetowonder Thanks for the RT! Glad you liked the review.
  5. @pausetowonder Absolutely.
  6. @john_self Now stop disagreeing with me, and go sign up for my newsletter.
  7. @john_self Where you wonder who said "Yup, that's done. No more development needed. We can publish this. Alert the bookshops!"
  8. @john_self I'm not talking about trash so much as actual gibberish. You know what I mean, those books that read like they're self-published.
  9. Crap writing on an ebook is still crap writing, and isn't going to save anybody's industry.
  10. Why is it that when people talk about saving the publishing industry, they always talk about formats and never about publishing good books?
  11. Win a copy of An A-Z of Possible Worlds! And read the review! Here: http://bit.ly/8JLDKt
  12. Dessert & chocolate guru @davidlebovitz is doing a booksigning in Paris today. Details: http://tinyurl.com/ylr3fbe
  13. (Contrary to Google's apparent belief, its algorithm does *not* know what I'm looking for better than I do.)
  14. I wish Google would stop tying to be clever, and just return results for whatever I actually type into the search box.
  15. . @nonsuchbook is giving away a PG Wodehouse every day for 12 days. Here's today's competition: http://bit.ly/7ZIBW9
  16. Here's @mookse on @faberbooks' attractive 80th anniversary poetry series: http://tinyurl.com/yasmdl3
  17. This is where @foodinrome and I go for good beer in Rome: http://bit.ly/8dOK9b
  18. Good post here (from @david_hewson) about photographers in the UK being harassed by police: http://bit.ly/6IyBSF
  19. An update on the Harlequin self-publishing debacle: http://bit.ly/5Uw8nt
  20. Come on people - suggest some great blogs for #blogfriday