Out of Ambit
Hobbyhorses and General Ranting
In the Annoying Commercials department… (a rant)
Sometimes when I’m working, the TV is running in the background to provide innocuous “white noise”. Not real white noise, mind you… just a something-going-on mutter that helps me think. Naturally, somewhere along the line, this will involve commercials as well as content. There are a few of these lately that seem to be turning [...]
The Annual Rant
It’s just after midnight of what many native Irish call “The Day That’s In It,” and as a result, only maybe a third or a quarter of the people coming to “Out of Ambit” for the next twenty-four hours have some vague interest in what I do professionally, or what I write, or what I [...]
Ebooks: a note from the pro-am self-pub frontier
I just want to direct everybody’s attention to Chris Meadows’ article here, which is brilliantly expressive of some of the problems I’ve been noticing a lot more acutely of late from early sorties into the production end of ebook management. Some of you will have noticed that I’ve been overseeing a project whose time (I [...]
Life without the plastic bag…?
Or, rather, without the flimsy semi-transparent bag with handles that cut into your hands like cheesewire if you put something in the bag that weighs more than a pound? Here in Ireland, it’s been a pleasure. I see the concept of dumping the bag — by one mechanism or another — is being introduced in Los Angeles [...]
So bitter, so bizarre
Some of you will know approximately where we live in Ireland, so I am sorry to tell you that this story is locally germane: Post mortems due on County Wicklow bodies They were our neighbors. Not the kind you’re close to, perhaps (though they were close to many others), but they were the kind you’d [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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