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The toxicity is spreading to the UK. I have no comprehension of how Elon Musk could rabble-rouse as he did the other day to an adoring live audience in Trafalgar Square… It was an obvious & crude incitement to violence. Apparently billionaires...

I loved Redfern in The Way We Were...so many others too. A great actor has left the stage :(

Assasinations have no place in a democracy (or a Constitutionally-limited republic, what the US actually is). Yet Vance and Co. are milking this for all it's worth. One of my work colleagues is giddy with rage over the "feral" liberals. This...

Nope. We are dead. JD Vance is a whack job with this Charlie Kirk crap. I never heard of him before this. Vance took over Kirk's podcast? Doesen't a VP have more important things to do? Although John Adams famously described the vice presidency...

Robert Redford is dead. Didn’t really appreciate him enough at the time, yet in retrospect he seems like one of the giants of the screen. Feels like part of the best of America may have died, too… Or am I being too melancholic…? :(

It’s something that UK/Euro writers don’t have to bother with… but clearly in this case, US registration is important!

Note to self: when luck and effort sweep me into publication, make sure my copyright is registered!

Self‑Publishers Rise Up at 2025 Ignatz Awards Independent creators made an impressive showing at the 28th annual Ignatz Awards at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland. Fantagraphics took two of the evening’s biggest prizes, but the article...

Storytel seem to have built their audio model serving language markets (i.e. Nordic) that Audible has so far neglected. To maintain their edge against the behemoth that Audible / Amazon is, they’re buying (book) publishers. They have an...

Click on this link :) p. https://nextcloud.redhammer.me/index.php/s/8QkofaPDQLwZG6P

My new Japanese made android phone has audiobooks on it as well as audible which I thot interesting.

Tariq Ashkanani and David Goodman triumph at Bloody Scotland At the Bloody Scotland festival, crime writers Tariq Ashkanani and David Goodman – both previously featured as support acts in the Crime in the Spotlight programme – won top honours...